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[i]Start the food thing and we're going to end up discussing drop scones and pancakes, crumpets, swedes and turnips, rolls etc. [/i]

Oven bottoms, Leeds.


 
Posted : 11/01/2016 11:25 pm
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I hadn't noticed this for well, all my life, but i use "stay"


 
Posted : 11/01/2016 11:54 pm
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I'm sure I've heard 'stay' from Northern English too, and come to think of it also 'stop' for the same thing.

Anyone corroborate this?

More or less a Yorkshire thing to say stop instead of stay, but more for remaining rather than living. As in: "I'm stoppin' out while midnight." Note use of the Barnsley while.


 
Posted : 12/01/2016 12:00 am
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Food you say! I've noticed that chips are always had on a butty.Yet everything else is had on a piece. However my favourite word is sybies for spring onions


 
Posted : 12/01/2016 12:36 am
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[i]Gigot[/i] (pronounced jigget). One of the many words introduced through the Auld Alliance.

And then there's the Cant words like [i]barry[/i] (meaning really good). Might be a bit more local that one, though found Irvine Welsh's works


 
Posted : 12/01/2016 12:41 am
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However my favourite word is sybies for spring onions

Mine too, but seems to be sadly dying out.


 
Posted : 12/01/2016 12:53 am
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Have we done saying J as "Juy" like guy?

And fillum instead of film

Pure barry, ken


 
Posted : 12/01/2016 1:03 am
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Oxter is another great word I don't hear often anymore. It's all about the pit now.


 
Posted : 12/01/2016 1:05 am
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@km79 The world's your pit just doesn't work does it 🙂


 
Posted : 12/01/2016 1:15 am
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A hunnert!


 
Posted : 12/01/2016 1:18 am
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One hunner an eichty


 
Posted : 12/01/2016 1:31 am
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"See" in the sense of "Take, for example..." Or "Supposing that..."

"See him? See if he disnae pack that in? See that windae? He's getting fired oot it."


 
Posted : 12/01/2016 1:55 am
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Rowies


 
Posted : 12/01/2016 6:58 am
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I stayed in Lochgilphead most of last year. I still lived in Wigan though.

"Stay" To my Scottish colleagues meant live, to me it means where I am / was on a temporary basis.Eg, "on holiday we stayed at the ocean view hotel"


 
Posted : 12/01/2016 8:05 am
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Still use oxters

Simmet(?) for vest
Lowp(?) to leap

No ones mentioned the ubiquitous supper, as in fish supper. Mate from darn sarf still asks for a haddock and chip supper.


 
Posted : 12/01/2016 8:23 am
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well worth a watch.....


 
Posted : 12/01/2016 8:31 am
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@Paladin - My 85 year old mums been staying with us since she got flooded out on boxing day - she's a bit of a doric bore, and that's got her laughing for the first time since. Saving up the other parts for later!
Genuine thanks!


 
Posted : 12/01/2016 9:46 am
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