Nah Then, Si Thee!

I should have linked to this article when I found it. Involving as it does Austrians, Doncaster and Dialect. So here it is: GPs confused by 'manky' patients

A group of foreign doctors left baffled by South Yorkshire slang are being taught the local dialect so they know when their patients feel "champion".
The seven Austrians are fluent English speakers but were left confused by patients feeling "jiggered" or "manky".

But now doctor-patient relations in Barnsley and Doncaster have improved after the local NHS trust compiled a special Yorkshire language guide.

It's nice of the BBC to include a small glossary, too.

Ey oop = Hello
Fizog = Face
Lughole = Ear
Jiggered = Exhausted
Manky = Rough
Our lass = Wife
Gipping = Vomiting

As always with these sort of reports there's a slight air of "Don't those Northerners talk funny?" about it, though I imagine a glossary for foreign Doctors would be useful in any part of the country, just as an English Doctor with Hoch Deutsch would need a little time to understand patients in Vorarlberg or Tirol.

To me it seems that Doncaster West Primary Care Trust have spotted a problem and dealt with it, which should be a good thing not the target for slightly snide articles from the BBC.