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  • Colloquialisms – would you know what I meant if I said…
  • boxfish
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    Ark at ee

    oldbloke
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    I’d like some fadge please and maybe some dulse

    Yes, but together?

    properbikeco
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    you’ve got a mouth that looks like it should have a tail above it!

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    BlindMelon
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    Yes, but together?

    Only if you were asking for it in the shap

    maccruiskeen
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    you’ve got a mouth that looks like it should have a tail above it!

    rogerthecat
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    Narkey

    bob_summers
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    Mowdiwaffs. Not sure of spelling, but it’s Cumbrian.

    Nana used to see her arse* when she found a mowdiwaff int garden.

    Anyone guess?

    * get cross

    CountZero
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    Grockles and emmets down here in the south-west. All the rest could be Serbo-Croat for all the sense it makes!

    scratch
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    ‘dik at gearers screeve mush! thinks its well tash, I’m off for a peeve with me mockety juckler chav, buers doing my shurer in’

    ……and thats why I left….

    Pook
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    Thas rayt about nesh rog.

    But while just an sYorks thing? Well blow me. I thought it was just northern.

    Anyway, I’m nipping down the offy at the end of the snicket cos I need some beer and snap.

    DezB
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    Watch it, my bruv just copped on you.

    Rorschach
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    Billy’s topped him sen.

    jamiep
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    ha, “spice”, “nesh” and “snap” (I love “snap box”) make me feel like going down home from up here in Scotchland. They do have some really good ones up here too though. All-time favs are “pieces” and “messages”

    senorj
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    “Am garn yam”
    “Whisht”
    “Divnt Jo that”

    If moudiwaff means the same as moudiwarp does in broadest Derbyshire then it’s a mole!

    twicewithchips
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    twa plain pees ana hingin in an aa’

    senorj
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    My grandad called a mole a mowdi……in the broadest of Cumbrian .:-)

    slowjo
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    I get it…northener’s night. I’m oot!

    ourmaninthenorth
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    No idea what the OP phrase means (or most of the above), but I do know what a schooner of sherry is.

    bob_summers
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    Aye, mowdiwafs was her word for molehills. Quick google , looks like it’s from the old German or Norse moldwarp.. Still in use about twenty years ago. Time passes slowly in Cumbria.

    ads678
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    I’ve only come across schooner as in a glass in Oz, where it’s about 2/3’s of a pint.

    The say outdoor for beer shop in west mids as well.

    DezB
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    mines not norvern. anyone know it?

    ourmaninthenorth
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    Sherry clipper = 2oz

    Sherry schooner = 4oz

    timidwheeler
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    I’m from the south.
    Any of you chaps fancy a quick round of Aunt Sally?

    timba
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    S. Derbys
    Gunwom
    Gunwok
    Street up the strate (similar to grayn peent)

    I’m going to my place of abode
    I’m going to my place of work
    Directions, follow the road ahead (green paint)

    Drac
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    Schooner beer glass is used for our shameful ale, newcastle Brown Ale, it’s supposed to served in schooner. It is 2/3 pint not 1/2 like I first thought. Even a recognised UK measure now apparently.

    RoterStern
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    Ow bist ne wut?

    My uni lecturer once used the phrase ‘half way round the Wrekin’ and I was amazed that someone from Cornwall would know it.

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