Easy English 1 - York

Glossary: 1 - ’Now then’ is a Yorkshire way of saying ’hello’. 2 - ’mint’ in this case is a slang word for ’great’, ’cool’ or ’awesome’. 3 - ’dunno’ is a very common shortening of ’don’t know’. 4 - ’kinda’ is a very common shortening of ’kind of’. 5 - ’in’t it?’ - the ’s’ in the word ’isn’t’ is commonly left out. 6 - Herberts on a night - Herberts is not a common term, but in this case we believe he is implying they are intolerant people. But if any of you have a more specific definition of the term then feel free to comment below! ’On a night’ is a northern phrase for ’in the evening’ or ’at night time’. 7 - ’rough’ in this case means ’aggressive’. 8 - ’cotton wool wrapped’ - this phrase implies that people are very heavily protected from anything which may be dangerous or ’different
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