Dialect/slang

Si · Post by Si » Wed 28 Sep, 2011 10:38 am

majorhoundii wrote: tyke bhoy wrote: majorhoundii wrote: tyke bhoy wrote: Trojan I presume curses! Had my suspicions for a while but the Ossett/Morley connections would have made it a major (pun intended) coincidence for it not to be the case. I lost the internet early in the year, and when I tried to rejoin as Trojan I'd lost my password, so I tried to get new one and couldn't, it wouldn't let me rejoin as Trojan, so I rejoined as someone else Hi Trojan!I wondered where you'd gone!

Tyke · Post by **Tyke** » Sun 20 Nov, 2011 3:40 pm

I know its the back end of the thread but has anyone mentioned "Starving" my mother hardly ever said she was cold she was allways starving and if we were shivering we would be "starved to death buggers"

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Sun 20 Nov, 2011 4:00 pm

When ar' were a lad the fellers at work would often say, " You can allus tel someone from Roundhay/Moortown/Headingley as they get out o' bath to pee in the sink". I sincerely hope this doesn't offend any of our readers.

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Sun 20 Nov, 2011 5:11 pm

Johnny39 wrote: When ar' were a lad the fellers at work would often say, " You can allus tel someone from Roundhay/Moortown/Headingley as they get out o' bath to pee in the sink". I sincerely hope this doesn't offend any of our readers. I must say I am Deeply offended by your remark! I never got out of the bath to p in the sink! The sink was always full of dirty pots!

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sun 20 Nov, 2011 5:17 pm

You mean some of you folks had a sink AND a bath ??

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Sun 20 Nov, 2011 6:28 pm

BLAKEY wrote: You mean some of you folks had a sink AND a bath ?? We had a bath but you had to fill it with a kettle.

Uno Hoo · Post by **Uno Hoo** » Mon 21 Nov, 2011 6:03 pm

tilly wrote: BLAKEY wrote: You mean some of you folks had a sink AND a bath ?? We had a bath but you had to fill it with a kettle. We kept coal in our bath

Post by **chameleon** » Thu 02 Feb, 2012 2:46 pm

Posts moved here to existing rlrvant thread:JogonLocation: St Michaels Rd Charity Shop non-fiction booksJoined on: 21-Dec-2011 17:58:33Posted: 363 posts # Posted on: 02-Feb-2012 09:27:23. Edit | Quote A book I read mentions an odd (Leeds?) word I'd not heard, usually used in a negative context and meaning that the user wanted something but couldn't justify the expense on it. And so the person would say " I can't thoil it". Thoil - able to afford.Unlike the above another I hear in Leeds is more a shortening and mixing of two words "..mind you..", and ends up being, or sounding "..minestue.." Again could be older - "mindestthou" ?LilysmumUser Location: GuiseleyJoined on: 28-Mar-2008 17:01:45Posted: 502 posts # Posted on: 02-Feb-2012 10:00:14. Delete | Edit | Quote There is already a thread on this subject, check out Dialect/slang Jogon, think you'll find it's been mentioned already Top uncle mickUser Location: Calverley,But Middelton and Hunslet born and bredJoined on: 14-Jan-2009 11:13:15Posted: 345 posts # Posted on: 02-Feb-2012 10:12:45. Delete | Edit | Quote http://www.secretleeds.com/forum/Messag ... essage=825 Top kangoUser Location: Joined on: 30-Aug-2009 21:11:36Posted: 173 posts # Posted on: 02-Feb-2012 12:01:06. Delete | Edit | Quote I always associated " thoil " with Bradford where My late Father was from, He and His family used that expression a lot.Kango Top Pages: 1 New Thread | New Message

grumpybloke · Post by **grumpybloke** » Fri 03 Feb, 2012 2:22 pm

I always thought "thoil" meant stand, as in " I can't stand it any longer."

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Fri 03 Feb, 2012 5:45 pm

grumpybloke wrote: I always thought "thoil" meant stand, as in " I can't stand it any longer." So did I. I've definitely heard it used to mean that.