Birmingham Riots !

Yorkshire is interesting. Once of the most indecipherable accents in the UK, and IME, Yorkshire people tend to think of it as much more than a county, almost like a country of some kind.
 
Yorkshire acents aren't indecipherable! It's only dialect words that make Yorkshire hard for 'foreigners' to understand, and dialect words are sadly dying out.

That's why so many call centres are located in Leeds - friendly accent, easy to understand.

Some Yorkshire accents are easier on the ear than others though. Hull is a strange one, and Bradford can be a bit irritating.

And everyone knows that Yorkshire is really a country in it's own right. Don't they...?
 
You leave out too many letters! Everytime you see a Yorkshire accent written, it's got so many apostrophes that it may as well become a letter in it's own right
 
This from a man whose language seems to depend almost exclusivley on the letter L
 
But what a fantastic letter to choose! It could have been some evil letter.....like h. Pure. Evil.
 
Ahh, but where in South Wales? The accent varies all over the place there. Even going a few miles up the road you'll find a different accent. I've got a thick Caerphilly accent.

And Dublin isn't in the British Isles, its in the Republic of Ireland. Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland (ROI) are seperate countries. They have the Euro for a start, thats a fairly big clue that they aren't in Britian.
 
I dunno, I find it hard to tell the difference between most South Wales accents. I guess I can tell a Cardiff accent, because they say "Cairdiff".
Also a Maesteg/Llynfi Valley accent they pronounce "bag" as "bwaahg" etc.
South West, I can detect the lilt, but nothing more than that.

Dublin is in the RoI AND it is in the British Isles.
 
Come on.....

Great Britain = England, Scotland, Wales.

UK = England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland.

British Isles = England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland.

British Isles is a geographical term, not a political one.
 
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NO NO NO NO dude i got an A1 in my A levels in geography!! british isles is england,wales,scotland, n.ireland and isle of man!!
 
Southern Ireland itself hasn't been part of Britian since 1922, when the Irish Free State was established, followed later by complete severence with the British Commonwealth in 1948.

So no, it isn't a part of Britian. Not even Geographically.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_isles



Wikipedia is not 100% reliable, but it's rarely wrong on such uncontencious (spelling?) facts as this.
 
Yes I know about the politics of Ireland, the point is that the British Isles is an exclusively geographic term.
You argument is like saying "Switzerland is not part of the EU, therefore it's not part of Europe."
One term is political, the other is geographical.
 
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