[Closed] Local Sayings For Local People.

Give the yaggie a stoke.

Eh Marra? Cumbrian for " I beg your pardon"

Explanation Drac?

A Ken I Ken, Ken.

Doric for I knew that I knew a guy called Ken.

"This is me since yesterday."

West (?) Central Scotland expression meaning- there's been no let-up in the activity I've been involved in for quite some time.

Who's coat is this jacket?

Welsh for "who's shoes are these boots"

I work in the Forest of Dean. With real, proper Foresters. One guy is trying to teach me "Forest". It's completely incomprehensible.

"Zurree!" An exclamation of greeting.

"Yuttin" To eat something.

"Nesh" tender, soft, delicate, not hardy, ‘you be got nesh’. This is also used in Hereford.

A Worcester one. "Manky" grimy or dirty.

wee crack eh deek about.
(Chat and look around in Penrith)

I've heard the Ken thing but it's a little confusing.

Seems to be used as a word that means everything/ nothing both at the same time.

<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.8px;">With real, proper Foresters</span>

High six!

'tin 'tin tin.

It isn't in the tin.

Sheffield apparently.

Why spoil the fun Stu?

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<p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.2em;">I work in the Forest of Dean. With real, proper Foresters. One guy is trying to teach me “Forest”.</p>
Psling to the forum please.

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OK I give up even trying to post on here anymore.

I'm currently working with a Yorkshire builder who seems to be blighted by the fact that whenever anyone rings him, knocks his door or when his kids wake up he is 'sock up t' wats' in his good lady. Building skills seem to be his only blessing, so I dread to think what she must look like! And given how often it seems to happen, he is clearly horny.

Smell yer maw.

It means smell your mother.

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs........

(Well i'll be damned in south pennines and maybe north in general)

Doric:

“Fit like loon, fou’s yer doos?”

To which the only correct response is:

”Aye chavin awa, chavin awa”

Gan on hinny mek iz a yarrie!

Or even "fit like loon, foo's yer tatties?"

I stay (live) in Perth, but for the past 6 months or so have been working around Glasgow.

Apparently I'm from the wrong side of the ken line. Ken?

@gallowayboy: well that just makes no sense at all 😉

'Where's that to?'

Meaning 'where did that occur?'in Devonshirespeak

I told a local girl about a race I did (won) she said the aforementioned phrase, I said 'it's not to anywhere, just around a forest'. I looked like a Bellend.

I'm guessing Drac is suggesting some more fuel is required on the fire.

I Bin. I am

Ow Bist. How are you

I Bay. I am not.

'Hew man, that's a canny ganzee your lass's knit ya'

= 'I really like your jumper'

@GrahamS: my preferred response is "Ay heowin' neeps".

"I mine, aa day, iss boy..." the precursor to every tale my teucher cousin would regale us with... 🙂

"its a full moch **** o' a day" - the weather is rather unpleasant today...

Pretty much slowman well done.

Seka barree spot.

Such a nice place.

Lowp owner yon yat.

Jump over the gate.

Plenty here-

http://www.cumbriandictionary.co.uk

I use the term ‘Manky’ as well, but I live in North Wiltshire. No idea where I picked it up from.
Useful word, though.

Yok doon the simmit asked when getting a fried egg roll  whether you want the yolk hard or soft in Dundee

Westcountry bias here,

I only recently discovered that the act of 'smoothin' a pet is something that only happens in Bristol. Everyone else apparently 'strokes' their pets.

'That's the badger'

'Be there dreckly'

You'd also think that no=one in Bristol understands the difference between ideal and idea, as the correct pronunciation for both is 'idee-awl'. Only by very careful listening can you work out that the speaker has not in fact 'bin to ikee-awl'.
Conversations with my mother are very confusing once she starts discussing her ideas about the latest home furnishings.

/giantalkali

That’s funny and here in North Somerset she would be normal

Put th'wood in thoyle.

My now lon<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20.4px;">g dead </span><span style="font-size: 0.8rem; line-height: 1.3;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20.4px;">grandad asking me to shut the door (before he died) </span></span>

Manky is used through out the UK is it not?

‘tin ‘tin tin.

That's not just Sheffield, it's NW England generally.

Put th’wood in thoyle.

You must be local.

I posted this on STW about three years ago.  Fill your boots:

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I’ve had this ‘test’ for donkeys years now as an n’th generation photocopy which my granddad brought home from somewhere one day. How old it was when he came by it I don’t know, but it must be at least as old as I am. The preamble in the next paragraph is as printed on my copy, presumably this introduction was added by whatever magazine or newsletter originally published it. Feel free to submit answers (-:

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“A teacher, a friend from Oswaldtwistle, passed this superb selection to the Rector. Imagine yourself a little further north, and try your hand. It has kept us quiet for hours!”

Test your understanding of language spoken by some of the local people. This is an invaluable introduction to a Southerner coming up North for the first time. Also for Student Teachers trying to understand how their pupils communicate with each other.

Translate “G” as in “got.”

1 Intitot

2 Geisusit

3 somethingsupoereer

4 Gerritetten

5 Wotsupwithee

6 Wotsmarrawi im

7 Iyamtgorrit

8 Im gerrin eartonnit

9 Azeeginityer

10 Topthill

11 Eez gooinoam

12 Asta gorrit reight

13 Is themmum

14 Asta gorrit withy

15 Purrit ineer

16 Iyamt eaerdnowt

17 Thal after gerra newun

18 Hesesittint burrabettitiz

19 Lerrus gerrus answesht

20 Wiv gorra gerrus imbux

21 Summonum alatergeroff

22 Thammun gerrit lernt

23 Shut thigob

24 Owzeeno

25 Aberrittinters

26 Coforrus atarpastate intmornin

27 Nathen then wataterdoin

28 Aster seenim ontelly

29 It dunt marrer

30 Lerrus gutter pichers

31 Aster gorra tanner

32 Eenose nowt abertit

33 Eez gonta gerrit

34 Lerrer gerronbus

35 Eedernt purrized under water

34 Lerrer gerronbus

35 Eedernt purrized under water

36 Eesezeeantadit burraberreas

37 Owereewe

38 Ateldim burriwunt lissen

39 Lerrim purrisaton

40 Asle clout thee if tha duntgivoer

41 Tintintin

42 Eez gorrit atooam

43 Gerarry tergithi anandweeit

44 Thawantsta wesh thi eeroil ait

45 Wivgorracar

46 Thakan if tha asto

47 Eez nowt burrababbi

48 Tantad nowt dunnatit as I nose on

49 Cantha cumta owerowse terneet

50 Weez gaffer

Marking

10 correct – you are obviously an immigrant from Sussex.

25 correct – you are on your way to becoming a settler.

40 correct – you have settled.

50 correct – Thawantsta brush up on thi Queens English.

I only recently discovered that the act of ‘smoothin’ a pet is something that only happens in Bristol. Everyone else apparently ‘strokes’ their pets.

Not us.

We clap a dug.

Hadaway and shite - Newcastle Solicitors

Cuddy- horse

Dyke back - hedge

Byre - cow shed

Canny bag of Tudor - fine local crisps

Mortal - very very drunk

Canny shifting gimmer from the high ground - good looking cheviot sheep

I could go on

Ha yeh goat yeh pieces? = Did you bring sandwiches to work today?

Glasgow, to a lad from Crawley, is a strange and awful place.

(Not really, it's awesome.)

Drunk and confused in a Glasgow bar, I remarked to my mate (ma pal), "It's alright for you, but everyone here knows I'm foreign"
"Me too" he replied, "I'm from Fife"

My Wife, Herefordian, hadn't heard of "manky" even though it's only 25 miles from Worcester.

Also "prang". As in a car accident, "I've pranged the car." She'd never heard of it.

None of her family had heard of either manky or prang.

<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">twa pehs, a plehn bridie an’ an ingin in an’ a</span>

Dont know what is is going on. Start at twa above

Also read a joke the other day that had me laughing out loud.

The Queen is hosting a garden party at Holyrood. The Scottish waiter comes up to her with a tray of cakes. The queen asks;

"Is that a scone or a meringue?"

The Scottish waiter replies;

"Naw, yet quite right it is a scone."

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Psling to the forum please.</p>

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An example of the complicated and little-known dialect of STW

Cuddie is a donkey Oldmanmtb.