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Greenbank

In my ~4 years as a FUCKING STUDENT in (South) Yorkshire the word the was rarely spoken. I came to think that the t' replaced to and not the, e.g.

"I am going to the pub" = I'm going t'pub
"Will you catch the bus?" = Will you catch bus?

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Ben689908 in reply to @Greenbank

Not that it really matters, but I think it should be will you catch t’bus.

But we’d never sound the t’. There’s a glottal stop. My mate who wasn’t from Yorkshire used to get told off by his parents for trying to speak like us lot, and it sounded weird because it just sounded like there was a word missing.

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