English dialect

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Like a sausage in an alleyway?

[norman valentineParticipant @normanvalentine78682]

Bill, it's caulkhead, as in caulking boats.

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

I think every village and town has a rival, locally we have Oxford- Swindon, Wantage-Abingdon, Thame-Aylesbury, Chipping Norton and Woodstock. These days it seems to often revolve around football but at one time a punch up on a Friday night at a dance was a regular treat for some. As you drill down into smaller communities more and more factions are found. Maybe we don't like anybody.

Mike

 

Edited By Mike Poole on 18/09/2017 18:00:18

[mark costello 1Participant @markcostello1]

Over here We have: NorEasterns, Rednecks, Fruits and nuts(some not all Californians),and Hillbillies. We're all good. May have missed a few. I am a Irish redneck Buckeye from Ohio.

[John FieldParticipant @johnfield81618]

A saying I used to hear as a kid when things looked as if they were going from bad to worse was ………"It looks a bit black over Bill's Mother's"

Anyone else come across that?…..and where did it come from?

[WearyParticipant @weary]

Posted by John Field on 18/09/2017 19:53:49:

A saying I used to hear as a kid when things looked as if they were going from bad to worse was ………"It looks a bit black over Bill's Mother's"

Anyone else come across that?…..and where did it come from?

Means that it is going to rain??

Regards,

Phil

[Adrian GilesParticipant @adriangiles39248]

Quite common around here too, although being southerners we say Will's mother! Definitely to do with black clouds overhead.

Also another common Sussex saying about the weather; "If the Downs look Close, it's going to rain, if you can't see the Downs it's already raining"

[Stewart HartParticipant @stewarthart90345]

Don't forget people from Stoke being clayheads

 

And as for fit you can't beet: "as lose as a prick in a shirt sleev"

As for finish you have:- "as rough as a Bear's arse". 

 

 

Edited By Stewart Hart on 19/09/2017 07:39:44

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by John Field on 18/09/2017 19:53:49:

A saying I used to hear as a kid when things looked as if they were going from bad to worse was ………"It looks a bit black over Bill's Mother's"

Anyone else come across that?…..and where did it come from?

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In Birmingham, my family used it often, and I assumed that it was local … but having since lived in several other areas, I realise it is widespread

Generally refers to dark skies to the East.

A quick search on Google, this morning, found this thread which includes the suggestion that Will was 'William of Orange' … but I have also seen 'Kaiser Bill' nominated.

**LINK** http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=120578#2623445

MichaelG.

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

My step grandmother used to say when the weather was clearing that there was enough blue sky to make a pair of sailors trousers.

Mike

[Fowlers FuryParticipant @fowlersfury]

As if there weren't enough off-topic but amusing posts showing on this thread…..here's one derogatory and off-topic post from another website. No doubt familiar to many. It related to a modification done to a certain make of German car:-

"That is not Mechanical Engineering, its Civil Engineering. A Civil Engineer has two tools, namely a hammer and a contraceptive. If they cannot use the hammer they f… it."

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

We have a saying here in 'Smoggieland' ( Teesside )… if you can see the Cleveland hills, it's going to rain… if you can't see the hills…it IS raining…

George.

[Robert DoddsParticipant @robertdodds43397]

A similar expression to Mike Poole's relation, my mother, a tailoress by trade, would say on fair weather days "There enough blue up thre to make a Dutchman a pair of breeches"

Bob D

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Posted by Fowlers Fury on 19/09/2017 10:44:42:

As if there weren't enough off-topic but amusing posts showing on this thread…..here's one derogatory and off-topic post from another website. No doubt familiar to many. It related to a modification done to a certain make of German car:-

"That is not Mechanical Engineering, its Civil Engineering. A Civil Engineer has two tools, namely a hammer and a contraceptive. If they cannot use the hammer they f… it."

 

What's wrong with insuting civil engineers? As I tell a friend of mine who is a Fellow of that august body, if a civil engineer designs it and it moves he's in big trouble, we clankies have to make it move, and in a controlled manner. Mechanicals design weapons, Civils design targets

I thought I'd better add a smiley so no-one takes me too seriously!

Edited By duncan webster on 19/09/2017 23:15:35

[Bob MurrayParticipant @bobmurray]

There is no such thing as a civil engineer- they're rude and socially unacceptable

[Brian GParticipant @briang]

Dragging this up because my son just had a go at me over a drawing I gave him. Does anybody else still use "shewn" and "shewing" or am I really from the Ark?

Brian

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Brian G on 21/09/2017 21:38:08:

Dragging this up because my son just had a go at me over a drawing I gave him. Does anybody else still use "shewn" and "shewing" or am I really from the Ark?

Brian

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You shew Education and Style, Brian

… It's a pleasing conceit.

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 21/09/2017 21:47:56

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I think they were shewn the door with rail nationalisation

Neil

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

The more telling sign of age with your drawings, Brian, will be if they are dimensioned in cubits.

**LINK**

https://arkencounter.com/noahs-ark/size/

MichaelG.

[Clive IndiaParticipant @cliveindia]

We use the expression 'uneppen' for a clumsy person who tries to push his way through doors marked pull when trying to use things and breaks them.

Females outnumber males in this category by a factor of 10:1.

Edited By Clive India on 22/09/2017 10:12:21

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Bob Murray, there's no such thing as civil engineers, they are all M.I.C.E

Ian S C

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

After coming here, I thought that "Bill's mother's" was located somewhere in the Fens.

In Herefordshire, where I grew up, anyone feeling the cold was "a bit naish". Obviously they hadn't eaten enough "bait" for elevenses or lunch.

And an alley became a snicket if it was long enough to emerge in Sussex. (Although as a child, an alley was also a glass marble)

Howard

Edited By Howard Lewis on 22/09/2017 15:02:13

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

As a youngster I thought you only found alleys in the USA, where I come from they are lanes.

Neil

[Bob RodgersonParticipant @bobrodgerson97362]

In the North East splinters, be they metal or wooden ones were known Spelks. Is this used in other parts of the UK?

[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

Posted by Howard Lewis on 22/09/2017 15:01:44:

And an alley became a snicket if it was long enough to emerge in Sussex. (Although as a child, an alley was also a glass marble)

In my part of Sussex they were known as twittens.

Russell

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