Dialect/slang

zip55 · Post by **zip55** » Sun 08 Apr, 2012 2:01 am

We used to bike over to Armley Baths from Oakwood, and always got a cup of steaming hot chicken(ish) soup and biscuits. I'm pretty sure the biscuits were just Ritz crackers.

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Sun 08 Apr, 2012 2:07 am

zip55 wrote: We used to bike over to Armley Baths from Oakwood, and always got a cup of steaming hot chicken(ish) soup and biscuits. I'm pretty sure the biscuits were just Ritz crackers. Well Ritz are salty!! As for the chicken (ish) soup...the (ish) made me laugh!

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Sun 08 Apr, 2012 2:19 am

BarFly wrote: Caron wrote: Heck, Uno Hoo, small world int it.I don't know the name of the butcher but he did lovely pork pies and sausage rolls and he was a nice chap. I haven't been back to Farsley for a few years but I have Google street viewed it and the shops are nothing like as good as they were. When my husband and I divorced, I didn't need a car as I could get everything I needed on Town Street. That's what really bugs me now, the fact that the bigger stores have taken over yet you've to travel miles to get to them. They wonder why there's no community spirit anymore....that's because there is no such thing as community anymore! My beloved Auntie and Uncle live in Farsley and I think they find most of what they need in local shops. Farsley does seem to be a good little community with some real pub, shops and tradesmen. Sadly the local shops, pubs and the like are going all over Leeds and being replaced with, well, I'm not sure -- wat are they building since not even flats make any money any more? Down here there doesn't seem to be much building work going on and when there is it's often some really expensive retirement homes in Bournemouth. Shops that close down re open as charity shops or cafe's. Poole high street used to be great. You were spoilt for choice at one time. Asda and Tesco seem to spring up in the blink of an eye. It's the same everywhere it seems.As this is the Dialect/Slang page I'm going to end this with a.....Eee by gum

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Sun 08 Apr, 2012 11:52 am

Caron wrote: BarFly wrote: Caron wrote: Heck, Uno Hoo, small world int it.I don't know the name of the butcher but he did lovely pork pies and sausage rolls and he was a nice chap. I haven't been back to Farsley for a few years but I have Google street viewed it and the shops are nothing like as good as they were. When my husband and I divorced, I didn't need a car as I could get everything I needed on Town Street. That's what really bugs me now, the fact that the bigger stores have taken over yet you've to travel miles to get to them. They wonder why there's no community spirit anymore....that's because there is no such thing as community anymore! My beloved Auntie and Uncle live in Farsley and I think they find most of what they need in local shops. Farsley does seem to be a good little community with some real pub, shops and tradesmen. Sadly the local shops, pubs and the like are going all over Leeds and being replaced with, well, I'm not sure -- wat are they building since not even flats make any money any more? Down here there doesn't seem to be much building work going on and when there is it's often some really expensive retirement homes in Bournemouth. Shops that close down re open as charity shops or cafe's. Poole high street used to be great. You were spoilt for choice at one time. Asda and Tesco seem to spring up in the blink of an eye. It's the same everywhere it seems.As this is the Dialect/Slang page I'm going to end this with a.....Eee by gum When I moved to Farsley in the 70's there was a pork butchers on Town St. Everybody called it "Pork Jim's). I dont know the ownwers surname. It was opposite the New Inn.In those days there were 2 bakers shops too!

book · Post by **book** » Sun 08 Apr, 2012 12:00 pm

Caron wrote: BarFly wrote: Caron wrote: Heck, Uno Hoo, small world int it.I don't know the name of the butcher but he did lovely pork pies and sausage rolls and he was a nice chap. I haven't been back to Farsley for a few years but I have Google street viewed it and the shops are nothing like as good as they were. When my husband and I divorced, I didn't need a car as I could get everything I needed on Town Street. That's what really bugs me now, the fact that the bigger stores have taken over yet you've to travel miles to get to them. They wonder why there's no community spirit anymore....that's because there is no such thing as community anymore! My beloved Auntie and Uncle live in Farsley and I think they find most of what they need in local shops. Farsley does seem to be a good little community with some real pub, shops and tradesmen. Sadly the local shops, pubs and the like are going all over Leeds and being replaced with, well, I'm not sure -- wat are they building since not even flats make any money any more? Down here there doesn't seem to be much building work going on and when there is it's often some really expensive retirement homes in Bournemouth. Shops that close down re open as charity shops or cafe's. Poole high street used to be great. You were spoilt for choice at one time. Asda and Tesco seem to spring up in the blink of an eye. It's the same everywhere it seems.As this is the Dialect/Slang page I'm going to end this with a.....Eee by gum What does ee by gum mean?

Si · Post by Si » Sun 08 Apr, 2012 1:44 pm

Could be wrong, but I think of this phrase as being more Lancashire. I think it's probably a version of By God, like Gor Blimey comes from the oath God blind me.When someone seems to have everything, they're said to be, "Short o' nowt they've got."If someone asks you what something is, and you don't know, you say, "It's a thing o' purpose."

HelenG · Post by **HelenG** » Sun 08 Apr, 2012 2:00 pm

"Capped"= surprised, "Straightening someones jacket"= giving them a good telling off/putting them in their place.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Sun 08 Apr, 2012 3:37 pm

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Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Sun 08 Apr, 2012 3:38 pm

[quotenick="Geordie-exile"] Jogon wrote: Other words I recall elderly relatives 70+ in the 60's saying "Wisht" or similar meaning "be quiet", "wisht child" etc.A general Leeds saying also seemed to be "Right, monkey" It was indeed. Al Read's catchphrase.Erm, I wonder why Jogon's relatives were always saying 'Wisht child'? Funny that. Never thought of it like that! Now you mention it, Grandad did turn his hearing aid off when I visited.

majorhoundii · Post by **majorhoundii** » Sun 08 Apr, 2012 3:58 pm

I was brought up in Morley. My wife in Ossett. In Morley when people were coming out of work, or the pictures or the football, we would say "t'pictures is loisin'" According to my wife this expression is peculiar to Morley. Leeds's dialect is certainly different from that traditionally spoken in Morley (as Morley is noticeably different from the rest of the Heavy Woollen District) I wondered if "losin'" was common anywhere else in Leeds.