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been watching these 'Grandad' vids 😀 sounds like my own grandad... southerners in the office haven't got a clue...
I lived for a number of years in South Derbyshire, where all the men worked at pit bonk. I think the sentence "ay nailed on a neel" was a super one. All greetings were of course "ay up", usually followed by "our" whoever, as in "ay up our Ada". And everyone went "up wom" instead of home.
Moving there at the age of 11 from a very posh and well-spoken Sutton Coldfield meant I hadn't heard of words like nesh, mardy, etc, so I was a little confused for a while.
South and West Black Country, ie Wollescote, Lye, Quarry Bonk n' thet. Often shares with Northern dialects/Saxon/Norse. Heard these often as a kid from great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc.
Worramyah skraeikin' fower? (What are you skriking* for?)
Er's gorra vice loka glade under a God-dawwa (She has a voice like a gleed** under a God***-door)
God-'ell! Av yow got God-cloth-ears'? Am askin yer - amyow a-gooin up ter the God-pub up Pens-God-nett aftah? Or wha? ( God-hell! Is your hearing impaired? I'm asking you - are you going up to the pub at Pensnett afterwards? Or what?)
*Skrike - to cry/sob
**Gleed - A small piece of coal or grit
*** The word 'God' is/was used liberally as a curse, in parts to such degrees as to render it tooth-less. It just gets peppered everywhere. God'ell amyow tekkin the god-piss? Yow'm god-jowkin ay yah? God me.
Also I heard this exclamation, as per 'Well I never!') -
Well, I'llgewtann (Well, I'll go to Anne)
No idea who Anne is/was.
Up here in the North East a teacher asks some pupils in the class to construct a sentence using the word champion. Laura said “I won the sack race on sports day and was crowned champion.” Tom said “ l made my dad a cup of tea and then tripped and spilt it in his lap, champion son effing champion he said.”
Also “Stop laikin’ about” – laiking = playing.
<adds another to list of dialect words that are the same as Scandinavian words>
I was born in North West Durham ..where local dialects can be different within a few miles ( Langley Park is different to Stanley but less than 10 miles away ..Newcastle the same distance but another world away ..) .
I lived in Annfield Plain for the first 24 years of my life ..and at the local takeaway ( fish & chips ) ..if you wanted the same you asked for a fish n a bag ( of chips )..
I remember being too embarrassed when in a chippie in Newcastle getting exactly that ..(a fish in a bag ) ..no sign of any chips !
I mean what the hell is a fish supper !?
As kids we also used to get a 'dab'..if we didn't have enough money for a fish..a dab being a slice of potatoe & a slice of fish formed together and done in batter ..never seen or heard of this since .
Hodgynd
In Halifax if you want fish and chips you simply go in and order multiples....... So fish and chips is "once please", two fish and two chips is "twice" and so on. In York however fish and chips is "one of each".
The "dab"you describe is well known to Sheffielders as a fish cake, but a fishcake (mashed potato and fish in breadcrumbs) is called a rissole. That gets complicated if you want a bread roll with it, 'cos that's a breadcake. In Halifax and Huddersfield a breadcake, or bap, or barm is actually called a teacake. If you want a teacake you have to order a currant teacake.
Also “Stop laikin’ about” – laiking = playing.
That’ll be a corruption of larking about, or else larking is derived from laiking, which is entirely possible; larking about is a term I’ve heard used since I was a kid.
My colleague at work is from Atherton / Leigh area of Greater Manchester and he can locally go into a chip shop and order:
Baby's head, chip, pea, wet.
Which translates to:
Steak Pudding, Chips, Peas and Gravy