Yorkshire Emoji Campaign

We’ve recently been working with communities in both Yorkshire and Lancashire about their dialect and accent differences, and now some Yorkshire folks we collaborate with have boldly decided to campaign for a YORKSHIRE EMOJI to gain more global visibility. :-)

This fun (but important) new campaign has been kickstarted by the young people involved with the Yorkshire Dialect Society.

Please read their work below and then sign and support them as they work to claim a tiny corner of Yorkshire for t'internet!

YORKSHIRE NEEDS ITS OWN WHITE ROSE EMOJI! 🤍💙🤍💚🤍

Nar then!

One of t'most famous regional identities on t'planet. Millions of prahd Yorkshire folk across t'world. The largest historic county in England. Home to t'oldest dialect society in t'country.

And not a single emoji to our name. Nowt. Nowt at all!

Yorkshire folk have been calling for a Yorkshire emoji online for the last decade … it's time Mighty Yorkshire was listened to. We're calling on the Unicode Consortium … the body in the USA that approves new emojis - to give Yorkshire its WHITE ROSE.🤍💙🤍💚🤍

This int just abaht an emoji. It's abaht recognition an abaht'millions of people across t'world who are prahd to be 'Yorkshire' - whether they were born 'ere or chose to mekkit thur 'ome.

Yorkshire dialect, heritage, identity. It deserves a symbol t'whole world can use!

We're reight chuffed to be backed by t'Yorkshire Dialect Society - t'oldest dialect society in t'UK.🤍💙🤍💚🤍

(Segue into Standard English for those of you not able to read the above ...)

Share if you want to see a white rose emoji 😍👍🙌Let's mek a reight racket abaht this!

Link to the petition SIGN THE PETITION HERE

#WhiteRoseEmoji #Yorkshire #YorkshireProud #YorkshireDialect #PastTruisms #YorkshireDialectSociety #ProudToBeYorkshire 

Find out more about why the WHITE ROSE means so much to Yorkshire, by reading this article by Colin Speakman, proud Yorkshire author - at the splendid Yorkshire Bylines