A professional musician all my life, I was born and bred in Ughill (pronounced of course "Ugyill") in 1933, a stone's throw from Holmfirth, where my family came from. I spent most of my young life in Walkley, Sheffield, surrounded by folk speaking the broadest Yorkshire. I first heard the word "pratty" in "Last of the Summer Wine" : it grated on me then, and does now. Yorkshire folk in my experience never use the word "pretty" either: we use "bonny" or, more usually, "fair".