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Am gun womm (I'm going to my place of abode) NW Leics/S Derbys
Gun wok (I'm going to my place of business) NW Leics/S Derbys
Oakie (ice cream) Leicester
Automated Train Announcement: "This train is arriving at Auchinleck - Please mind the gap when alighting from the train"
Local 1. "Mind the gap?"
Local 2. "Aye, I mind the gap."
Local 1. "I mind that gap too. It wiz a good gap"
Watch ye divvent cowp yer creels ..
Be careful not to fall over / don't go arse over tit.
The opposite of the Doric Loon is quine.
as in “aye, she’s a fine quine (ken)...” or even “I like at quine fine”
ken is fawk at work think ah spiik funny
my brother was visiting home from London, we were riding over the Moors above ramsbottom when he saw someone he recognised, the fella shouted "OWATHEEOREYT?" made us smile coz you only ever here that round there!!
Very similar to the shortened version a little further north:- ..alreet ?
Yup it’s a very northern phrase.
I'm Cumbrian born and bred, however I had never heard the word"flatch" until about 6 months ago when the wife said our nephew was a lal flatch. Basically a flirt!
Some years ago up on Kinder I passed a walker coming the other way. Our greetings were as follows
HIM "Up".
ME "Nice".
HIM "Aye".
"Were you made in St. Helens?"
Frame thi'sen - get a move on
Also "Stop laikin' about" - laiking = playing.
Or even - "Dont just sit there like cheese at fourpence". Lancashire and Yorkshire, presumably originating when 4d was expensive for cheese!
ShitsacklShock-shack Day - King Charles' day ( 29 May) as celebrated by good Wiltshire folk 🙂
‘9 while 5’ for the working day in Sheffield and Rotherham
’Spice’ for sweets, which got even more confusing after the drug of the same name turned up.
‘Snap’ for packed lunch.
‘Badly’ for ill. As in ‘he’s not out on the bike ‘cos he’s badly’.
‘9 while 5’ for the working day in Sheffield and Rotherham
Roadworks sign "Wait while red light shows" causes great confusion in Yorkshire.
Do miss a bit of Gypsy Tart (now I no longer live in Kent - not sure how far that travelled?)
When I worked at Wolverhampton Corp...
"Did yow dip yower bredd last noit?"
and the old favourite - "Yowmin lie"
My mum calls an alleyway a "jittey"
Mardy - miserable of stroppy e.g. he's a mardy get. Not sure of the geographical distribution of this one.
Bostin' - Potteries, meaning very good.
Youth - Potteries. e.g. "ot ah rate youth?" meaning how's it going me old mucker.
Nesh, meaning soft, is quite widespread.
Prang is universal. WWII as in "Ginger pranged his kite".
Gypsy tart? Ah yes, schooldays. And fainites.
On the train from Penzance to Paddington I was asked by the ticket bloke where I'd got on to. That had me flummoxed for a minute. I said Paddington, then realised the correct answer was Penzance.
A couple from the Scottish Borders...
"Ony Ony Ony Ony"
Have any of you got any on you?
Tooty efter thrie
20 minutes past 3 - as said in Hawick
In Southampton we use 'mush' in replacement for 'mate' or basically anything you can think of. Often get funny looks when I use the word elsewhere in the country.
Not sure if this is a local thing, but we say 'roy' place of 'keen'. As in Roy Keane.
'You up for a few pints later?'
'Yeah roy'
Used to say this one loads when I was at school.
Always thought it was a Yorkshire thing. But the missus is from Calderdale and this one has her totally stumped. Im from York so maybe its only local to that area. Anyhow, the saying is.
Meenyon Pesh - For somethings that's really good.
Gonnae geez a plehnane
...ananinginaneana
referencing bridies where you can have a plain one but you might want
and an onion one as well
Who was 'soft' Mick? Seemed to have a lot of pretty much everything.
As in, "You've got more bikes than soft Mick"
'Bikes' can be replaced by pretty much any noun.
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I'm from Hereford and know all of those. We also borrow some from our Welsh neighbours - Cwtch, meaning cuddle.
GODDAMMIT !!!!!!
Gerroffmifutt
Ista goin chumpin ?
Both Leeds-ish
something to eight. Barnsley, not a time but something to eat
Cwtch - cuddle
Tamping - angry
Now in a minute - now
You alright or what? - not actually a question
Hummel doddies -fingerless gloves mid Scottish term
Appen lancs term as in ´appen your right
It's "foos yet doos"
"Aye peckin"
You want to try going right up the north east. I'm.not sure the locals even know what's being said
Heh, as soon as I saw this thread and that you were the author I knew it was going to be “it’s a bit black over Bills Mother’s” a favourite saying of ours when working at Kinver and can see dark clouds over Dudley
You want to try going right up the north east. I’m.not sure the locals even know what’s being said
Is it because the ‘locals’ are all southern interlopers? A bit like yersel Loon!
my brother was visiting home from London, we were riding over the Moors above ramsbottom when he saw someone he recognised, the fella shouted “OWATHEEOREYT?” made us smile coz you only ever here that round there!!
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">Last summer I went walking with friends down in Exeter. After a little while of greeting oncoming walkers I came out with "ow do?" and it stuck. Half a dozen of us all going "ow do?" to everyone we passed for the rest of the trip, some of the expressions we got back were priceless.</span>
I work in oldham where they generally call a spade a f***ing shovel
My favourites are “it’s cracking t’flags” which I assumed for ages meant it’s windy but turns out means it’s hot so the flags (paving stones) in your garden will crack
And we also liberally use “9 while 3” in meetings which drives our well spoken head teacher round the bend
From Somerset -
Dumpsy (or Dumpsy Dark) - Twilight.
Although my Wife, who's from a few miles away, insists that it's Dimpsy where she comes from.
Croupie (it that's how it's spelled) - to crouch.
Manky - I use it all the time and didn't even realise it wasn't a proper word!
Right ma tha. Pronounced ma ha. Usually said at the end of a conversation means Right then
"Slower than sh1t in the neck of a bottle" ie how quick STW now loads.
Is it because the ‘locals’ are all southern interlopers? A bit like yersel Loon!
I'm not from.upthere.....
I'm descended from inchrory it seems.....as far back as we can accurately trace the tree.
And the other side we were generations of crathie dwellers
On my north east roots.
"psling to the forum please"
Hey Stu, ows thee acker cutting? I bin avin me a bit of a kip after I der yut zum fud mind. You'll av'ta come down from thee wum and moot in the Vorest shag. Be a vyow dipple an strames ta get thee ridin ard.
Thing about Yorkshire is it's massive. I'm originally from Warwickshire, but moved first to Sheffield, then to Huddersfield, but worked in Halifax. There's a distinct difference between Hudds and Halifax dialect and accent. I have worked in various parts of North Yorkshire, and the accents also vary town to town.
When I first got to Sheffield my landlady greeted me with my first taste of what was to be virtually unintelligible and clearly deliberate mispronunciation : "Ah reckoned ahd waieet whahl tha gorreer before ah meshed."
I kinda got used to her eventually but my favourite moment was when we were having fish and chips for tea. She asked her daughter whether she was going to fetch them: "Iz tha bahn daahnt fatoyle?"
I used to go pheasant shooting near Pickering. One of the beaters asked the gamekeeper whether there were many birds "Are the' part about?"
"Ah woh faydin up ont Winn's, they's nivver ser monny" replied the keeper.
Finally, I know the farmer on whose land Emley Moor mast stands. He has an accent that belongs in a museum. I've helped him with his pest control for years and have kind of got used to him, but when he was a young teenager I took my son with me. John greeted us with a tale of how one of his ewes had been stuck in a fence and attacked by a fox or a badger. It didn't help that every other word is an Anglo-Saxon expletive, mostly beginning with c, but he pronounces ewes as ''owse" . My lad pointed out that he actually understood about ten percent of what he was saying. After all these years I reckon I've never got beyond about 65% .
Have we done any of....
I are not as green as I are cabbage looking (one for the East Anglians)
Needs a drop of thinners (a bit thick)
I didn't realise 'wally' was an Essex thing. Got some strange looks asking for one with my sausage'n'chips when up North 😀
“psling to the forum please”
Hey Stu, ows thee acker cutting? I bin avin me a bit of a kip after I der yut zum fud mind. You’ll av’ta come down from thee wum and moot in the Vorest shag. Be a vyow dipple an strames ta get thee ridin ard.
Now I understood most of that. Except for this bit:
vyow dipple an strames
I've been in the Vorest too long........
A "few dippy holes and streams" 🙂
Waves to Peter and slowly backs away.🙂
We've been down to the forest a few times and though we might bump into you at some point.
Be good to catch up.