A language kept alive in print

I ALWAYS look forward to “Yorkshire Words Of The 
Week” in your CountryWeek supplement and recent letters have reminded me about 
regional variations in our 
sayings.

For instance, Marjorie Gill remembers “There’s enough 
blue int’ sky to mek a 
policeman’s weskit” whereas I remember it as “to mek a sailor’s trousis’s”.

From the previous week, another variation on a person’s (perhaps undeserving) luck is 
“If he fell in’t dock he would 
come up with a pockets full of fish”.

Probably the nautical reference is due to the fact I have lived in the port Hull most of my life!

Thank you for keeping our old language alive.

Sad demise
of NHS Direct

From: Jane Hobson, Calverley Court, Bramley, Leeds.

I READ Frank Dobson MP’s speech on the destruction of the NHS (Yorkshire Post, May 16) by this Government.

NHS Direct was marvellous – it saved my life twice and I was horrified when I heard that it was going to be replaced by a new system. Let’s hope to God I don’t have to use it in the future.

Gannet picture

From: Dave Long, Horsforth, Leeds.

YOU will see puffins at Bempton RSPB reserve but the birds in the photo (Yorkshire Post, May 23) are in fact gannets. Bempton has the largest gannetry on the UK mainland.