The first time I was in a Sheffield folk club and I heard the locals talk, I thought they were speaking with an Irish accent. They corrected me. They said we're talking dee-da's, which is apparently a local dialect.


Thinking about it years later - really an American would have thought they all were Irish. It sounded very similar. And there are a lot of Irish people in Sheffield - originally Irish, that is - probably English now.

Perhaps they came from Belfast and worked in the mills over here originally...?

Do any locals thoughts stray along similar lines?