Richard III's Yorkshire accent

[Erpingham]

Quite appropriate if the supposed derivation from Dux (via Anglo-Saxon) is true.

I'm sure my mum was thinking more about the quacky things when she said it 

[Swampster]

With hen, chick etc. being in use, I do remain sceptical though it is trotted* out by e.g. Keele university.


*Or perhaps waddled.

[Erpingham]

Compo?

Overseas members might need to know that Compo was a major character in the long running comedy Last of the Summer Wine.  This was filmed in Holmfirth in Calderdale and Compo was the most "rustic" of the characters.

[Andreas Johansson]

Etymonline thinks that duck (the bird) comes from duck (the verb), which once meant "to dive" (its Swedish cognate dyka still does).

Oh, and Richard III lived during the early stages of the Great Vowel Shift, so his accent wouldn't have sounded much like any modern one.

[Keraunos]

From the thread so far, it looks like Richard lived during the great fowl shift as well 

[Imperial Dave]

A duck, a duck! My kingdom for a duck!

[Keraunos]

And what's the betting that the Princes in the Tower were smothered under duck feather bolsters?  Murder most fowl.

[Imperial Dave]

What quackery is this...?

[Keraunos]

Or as another of Shakespeare's villains might have put it : "The devil damn thee black thou cream faced loon, whence got thow that goose look..."

[Imperial Dave]