Plasma | 13/04/2019 09:22:49 |
443 forum posts 1 photos | A previous thread was the inspiration for lots of input on local terms, thought it might be good to share more, especially from our globally placed members. For a start my gran always used to say she was clamming when she was hungry, so it was time for a biting on. |
Clive Hartland | 13/04/2019 09:38:38 |
![]() 2812 forum posts 40 photos | When I asked Mum for something as a child she always said, 'You can have it when my boat comes in'. Obviously we were skint! Clive |
Mike Crossfield | 13/04/2019 11:37:07 |
275 forum posts 36 photos | I spent my early childhood in the North West near Bury, and many local dialect terms abounded. One which springs to mind, and was capable of dangerous confusion, was the use of “while” to mean “until”. Example: ”wait here while I come back” meaning wait here until I come back. The story goes that a “southerner” working in a factory boiler house was told “don’t light the boiler while water’s in”. The consequences were predicable!
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Former Member | 13/04/2019 11:54:43 |
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Clive Hartland | 13/04/2019 13:26:33 |
![]() 2812 forum posts 40 photos | Mum came from Easington Co. Durham so it was said in a Geordy accent, I do not have a geordy accent, pure Kentish. Clivve |
Rik Shaw | 13/04/2019 14:33:12 |
![]() 1480 forum posts 398 photos | Around here "a young old boy" refers to someone who is the same age or younger than yourself. I int a'gewing = I am not going Wurny = Wasn't he A mistake = A Bedfordshire clanger ( and if you have ever eaten one you might know what I mean) Rik
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JohnF | 13/04/2019 16:16:42 |
![]() 1147 forum posts 189 photos | Nay nay lad tha's get'n it backside fora'd eh up while I show th'i ! Translates to -- No no young man you are assembling it wrong way round please move aside whilst I demonstrate Panshakered = worn out or tired Brossen = Full, over eaten Ganin yam = going home John
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mechman48 | 13/04/2019 16:26:07 |
![]() 2947 forum posts 468 photos | 'Away an get ya ganzy on it's gettin' cald' … go and put your jumper on it's getting cold; … local area variations apply. George. |
martin perman | 13/04/2019 17:13:52 |
![]() 2042 forum posts 86 photos | Posted by Rik Shaw on 13/04/2019 14:33:12:
Around here "a young old boy" refers to someone who is the same age or younger than yourself. I int a'gewing = I am not going Wurny = Wasn't he A mistake = A Bedfordshire clanger ( and if you have ever eaten one you might know what I mean) Rik
Nowt wrong with the Bedfordshire Clanger, I have one most Saturdays bought from Gunn's of Sandy. Martin P |
mechman48 | 13/04/2019 17:25:49 |
![]() 2947 forum posts 468 photos | 'Giz a tan' … can I have a lift on your crossbar … 'ee's got a brahma o' a keggy' … he's got a super black eye George.. |
IanT | 13/04/2019 17:54:09 |
1989 forum posts 212 photos | As a young lad (in HM's Armed Forces) - no one else seemed to know what "Grouts" were (it was what's left in the bottom of your Mug after drinking Tea according to my Grandmother). But thinking about it - we didn't use tea bags then either.... IanT |
Plasma | 13/04/2019 18:25:47 |
443 forum posts 1 photos | If I asked what was for supper I was invariably told "a run rarnd t table an a kick at cellar door" If I asked what something was I usually got "Oasters meddlers, crutches for lame ducks" If I asked to see something it was usually " It dunt say look on it" No wonder i was a confused child lol |
charadam | 13/04/2019 20:17:47 |
185 forum posts 6 photos | Twos up on your dout - I say, old chap, might I prevail upon you for a puff on the dog end of your cigarette? You'll make me boke - I am in danger of vomiting if you continue. It's gey dreich - the weather is wet cold and breezy. Stop plittering! - Desist from indecisively toying with that (food, tools, work etc.) Charlie's deid - pardon me miss, but your petticoat is showing. Stop that or I'll malafooster ye! - If you do not desist, I will physically chastise you. All from Lallans Scots.
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Phil Whitley | 13/04/2019 20:28:59 |
![]() 1438 forum posts 147 photos | When I moved from Pudsey, in W yorks, to Bridlington, I thought they were rum uns, but when we moved to Langtoft on the east yorkshire wolds, 3 years later in 1963, I couldnt understand a word of what some of the broader folk said, as they spoke a dialect based on old norse, and still used a lot of old norse words, and sentence construction. hence a greeting was, "Wa noo mi lad, wets thoo a deein of? spoken in a high pitched nasal brouge at 100 miles an hour, and I just stared back at him not understanding a word he had said! A gate post is "an ord yat stean" Bridlington gate becomes "Brig yat" A path or pavement is a "trod" etc etc. I remember one ocassion at a pig farm when a large boar escaped, and the farmer, a bow legged old boy in his eighties came out to see what all the fuss was about. I was told "ees a bad un keap outat road on im" When one of his lads asked what they were going to do, he said, "assl get im gannin, an thoo get yon big mell, and wen he comes, thoo nap im ower't skorp wit mell as ard as thee can" The lad picked up a lump hammer (mell from mjolnir, Thors hammer), and when the old boy, who was a bit unsteady on his feet chased the boar round the corner, the lad wacked it over the head with the "mell" and it went down like a shot, it was quickly rolled into the bucket on the front of a tractor, and deposited unceremoniosly back in its pen. We used to have some serious winters, on one occasion we recorded -22 overnight in a greenhouse, and the old boys would come out with "thoo watch thisen, its reet sleip ower yon tha knaws" ( be careful it is slippery over there you know) but always pronounced sleap as SleeeIP. odd till I found out that Sleipnir was Odins eight legged horse that could gallop over ice without losing its footing! when you got to know these old boys, they were wonderful people, salt of the earth types, who are sadly, like the accent, all but gone now. Although I still have my workshop at Langtoft, it has become a dormitory village, it has no shops, the pub and school have closed, and it is an altogether more humdrum place for it. I do miss them all, they were great people. |
Robert Dodds | 13/04/2019 20:38:30 |
320 forum posts 62 photos | Timping and Spelching. Clangers were chucked on a shawd ruck. (Shawd derived from shards -of glass, Ruck as in heap, perhaps some link to Rugby football? Banks are for going up, but only in and around the Potteries and North Staffs apparently. elseweir they are "robdogs" and not to be trusted with a "tanner" (6 old pence) Bob D |
Neil Wyatt | 13/04/2019 21:04:32 |
![]() Moderator 18994 forum posts 734 photos 80 articles | Posted by IanT on 13/04/2019 17:54:09:
As a young lad (in HM's Armed Forces) - no one else seemed to know what "Grouts" were (it was what's left in the bottom of your Mug after drinking Tea according to my Grandmother). But thinking about it - we didn't use tea bags then either.... IanT +1 for grouts. My dad didn't even believe in a tea strainer, but even he uses tea bags these days. I still leave some tea in the cup to avoid the grouts. Neil |
Neil Wyatt | 13/04/2019 21:14:46 |
![]() Moderator 18994 forum posts 734 photos 80 articles | Try this,. it will keep you happy for ten minutes and then give plenty more to chat about! www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html It located me pretty accurately, but when I went on to stage two I gave the answers using words I used as a youngster, and it pinned me down to South Wales, with an outlier in Pembrokeshire - where my Mum was born. |
Harry Wilkes | 13/04/2019 21:30:48 |
![]() 1328 forum posts 65 photos | stop on for me H |
JC54 | 13/04/2019 21:39:56 |
![]() 151 forum posts 14 photos | Well i'll go t the foot of ma stairs...... As bright as a toc h lamp....... ? |
daveb | 13/04/2019 23:09:46 |
626 forum posts 10 photos | Next week, next Tuesday etc. Means the week or day AFTER the next. Seems peculiar to Essex. |
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