Which dialect of English is this?

Question

'I were walking down t'road...'

Answer 1

Northern English - Lancashire and Yorkshire, especially Yorkshire. I suspect that the genteel ignorance reflected in the previous answers suggests that, unlike myself, the contributors are not British but from the other side of the Big Pond.

Answer 2

I'm sorry, but people are talking a lot of rubbish here.

First, English has many dialects. The difference between an accent and a dialect is that an accent differs phonologically (in the sounds) and a dialect differs in lexis (the words) and syntax (how the words are put together). A dialect is certainly not "pretty much another language" (although it could be).

A colloquialism, on the other hand, is something someone wouldn't use in writing (or, since it's more or less an extension of the written form, formal speech).

Nor is the example grammatically incorrect. It's just not standard English. This is NOT the same thing. I repeat: just because something is not standard English does not make it grammatically incorrect. Nor does it necessarily indicate a poor education (though education, especially higher education, does tend to flatten one's accent).

GrahamH is right in many respects: not only have many of the answers here displayed a remarkably irritating level of ignorance, "I were walking down't road" is from northern British English, almost certainly Yorkshire.

Answer 3

English doesn't really have any dialects, but more like accents.
A dialect is pretty much almost another language.
For example, dialects of Chinese are Cantonese and Madarin and they are different.

Sounds like an old accent, maybe somewhere around the time period of 1800s to late 1800s.

Answer 4

I would not call it a dialect. It appears to be more of a colloquialism due to the fact that, technically, it is grammatically incorrect.

As a colloquialism, it would be from someplace where people are either poorly educated or isolated from outside influence.

Answer 5

It might be a southern dialect

Answer 6

It's called, "I never graduated from High School" English.

Answer 7

like............
The country singer often say that
where were they?