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* The number one source for the Yorkshire accent on American television: ''[[All Creatures Great and Small]]''. The vets don't have Yorkshire accents (they all speak RP or Estuary despite the fact that the real James Herriot was actually from Glasgow), but most of the farmers have a Yorkshire accent.
* Number two being [[Sean Bean]] in ''Sharpe'' - despite Cockney origins of the character in the books! 'Red Riding' also shows some examples of generic screen-Yaaaarkshire accents too.
* Dickon (Andrew Knott) in the 1993 film version of ''[[The Secret Garden]]'' has an at-times impenetrable Yorkshire accent.
* If a character uses the word "reight/reet", "owt" or "nowt" (for "right", "anything" and "nothing"--the last two come from "aught" and "naught"), and greets people by deadpanning "Now then", you're in Yorkshire. Unless he's Fred in ''[[Coronation Street]]''. T' is also a good giveaway, although if the Ts are actually pronounced the actor has probably never been farther north than Portsmouth. The Yorkshire T' is actually a glottal stop, sounding more like adding a T sound to the end of the ''preceding'' word: "I've been down t'pit" is pronounced "I've been downt pit".
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTwweLJ78KE Brett Domino] is an example of a Yorkshire (Leeds) accent on [[YouTube]].
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