NEW graffiti which appeared in Bradford on Friday - featuring the phrase 'yes mush!' - continues to be a hot topic on social media.

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The street art is close to Forster Square train station and near the Midland Hotel, and has the colloquial greeting painted over a blue backdrop.

It has mainly been met with a mix of humour and admiration, with some social media users calling it “fantastic”, adding that “it’s vibrant and catchy and looks a lot better than a plain wall".

One Twitter user was also full of praise for the piece, saying: "Love to see this pop up in town, a word used back then and a word I hear all the time now! Ace to have art that the usual art types don’t get, one for the actual mushes I say!"

Others added “Finally, some colour in Bradford. Loving it, celebrating Bradford culture” and “saw it down Forster Square this morning. It made me smile”.

Some were not as impressed, however, with one person saying: “On no level at all is that ‘art’. The individuals doing this should better spend their time taking English lessons! It should be taken off as it lowers still the struggling reputation of Bradford and the individuals fined!”

Other users said they had “seen it all now”, while one even added “I quite like street art, brightens up dull urban areas if done well... this, however, is ugly!”

There has also been some debate over where the phrase is most commonly used.

Although many say that ‘yes mush’ is often heard in and around Bradford, some argue that they associate it more with other parts of the country.

One social media user said “It's not a northern English expression, it’s [a] Southern expression”, adding that they had “never heard it in Bradford”.

Another said “I always thought mush was a Geordie term”, while another person who claimed to have never heard the phrase before argued it “sounds more West Midlands if anything”.

In contrast, one commenter claimed “people in Bradford have been saying ‘mush’ since the 90s. I remember in the early 2000s when I lived on a council estate and everyone was saying it”, while another even said that – when they were growing up in the city – it “wasn’t a normal day unless I heard this.”

Another added that the phrase 'yes mush' has been "huge in Bradford [for] years", and one commenter even claimed that they “hear it daily in town.”

One person said the phrase is “neither northern or southern”, however, and pointed to the Romany origins of the word ‘mush’.

They said: “Mush is Romani for 'man'. It's neither northern or southern (Romani can be traced back to modern Iran & India at least over 1000 years ago) but common in areas where people descended from the travellers who settled into houses in the 20th century. Bradford being one of those places. Can't see why people are upset, mush!”

Finally, one user said that “if ever there was a piece of art that could accurately describe people from Bradford, this is it, mush."