The Daily Telegraph

God’s own grammar

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SIR – Katie Edwards (Comment, June 1) eulogises the Yorkshire accent; but what we should value is that, alone in the English-speaking world, Yorkshire preserves the distinctio­n between the singular and plural of the (second person) personal pronoun.

Iain Innes Burgess

Hampton Wick, Middlesex

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