Now! Then! 2025! - Yorkshire On This Day

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Hevvin tane a gurt intrust in the vernackler of aar taan, I hav allus been towt that t’reason why we arr calld Leedz Loiners is becoss thear is so monny Loins in Leedz. Nearly all t’owd Streets are name’d Loins or wun soart or anuther, and this I beleev is the oanly real caase of uz bean called Leedz Loiners.

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Hevvin tane a gurt intrust in the vernackler of aar taan, I hav allus been towt that t’reason why we arr calld Leedz Loiners is becoss thear is so monny Loins in Leedz. Nearly all t’owd Streets are name’d Loins or wun soart or anuther, and this I beleev is the oanly real caase of uz bean called Leedz Loiners.

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• 📌Briggate (14), Leeds' old north-south bridge street and main street ·
• Demonym (1) ·
• 📌Leeds (237) ·
• Loiner (1) ·
• The English Dialect Dictionary (1) ·
• Wright, Joseph (1855-1930) (2), philologist, author of the English Dialect Dictionary, rose from humble origins in Idle but said "I have been an idle man all my life, and shall remain an idle man till I die" ·
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