Dialect/slang

Si · Post by Si » Mon 24 Dec, 2007 8:45 am

I noticed a tiny variation in pronunciation the other day. Here in Leeds "love" is pronounced with a "uh" sound, but in Huddersfield it's a "oh" sound.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Mon 24 Dec, 2007 1:05 pm

arry awk wrote: Nobody's bin on sin' yustady!!!Been thinking about our Leeds dialect in the case of the pronunciation of Bradford and Pudsey.The middle 'D' and 'T' don't get pronounced at all!Say 'em to yourself! They come out (from me) as Bra<h>fordand Pu<h>sey, using an almost silent aspirant. Anybody agree with me? I post on another site Total RL and the Lanky lot who post on there have fun with the Yorkshire pronunciation of Bradford - they have it as "Bratfurt" When I was a kid we called it Bra'fud, I remember being on Leeds City station and hearing the announcer pronounce it very correctly as Brad-ford

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Mon 24 Dec, 2007 1:08 pm

I was reading earlier posts about the word,"Laik" and it is of Scandanavia origin - "Lego" comes from the same Norse word "to play"A dialect term in Morley, where I live is "capped" to register surprise."I were reight capped"

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Mon 24 Dec, 2007 1:21 pm

Trojan wrote: I was reading earlier posts about the word,"Laik" and it is of Scandanavia origin - "Lego" comes from the same Norse word "to play"A dialect term in Morley, where I live is "capped" to register surprise."I were reight capped" You're right about 'Lego'. I believe its actually 2 Danish words rolled into one - something like 'legt - godt' (Danish is not my strongest so I might be slightly out here) meaning 'play-good'

electricaldave · Post by **electricaldave** » Mon 24 Dec, 2007 7:52 pm

Marbles are properly called 'taws'http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/MarblesHowever we always called the big ones 'bollies' probably derived from the french 'bolle', no idea how that got to Leeds though.'Mithering' is a good old northern word.Weshing instead of washing. 'Get the weshin done' 'Wesh thy lugs out''I'll go ter't foot of our steps'Here's an example of leeds speak.http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sound ... /leeds/How about 'fathoming' something ?I once saw a dialect map of Leeds in the main library using just the two words, 'daddy long-legs' and 'ginnyspinner'.Ginnyspinner tended to be toward the north and west of Leeds. Daddy long legs toward South Leeds, and asolutely no-one called them craneflies.

Post by **cnosni** » Mon 24 Dec, 2007 8:11 pm

drapesy wrote: Trojan wrote: I was reading earlier posts about the word,"Laik" and it is of Scandanavia origin - "Lego" comes from the same Norse word "to play"A dialect term in Morley, where I live is "capped" to register surprise."I were reight capped" You're right about 'Lego'. I believe its actually 2 Danish words rolled into one - something like 'legt - godt' (Danish is not my strongest so I might be slightly out here) meaning 'play-good' Makes good sense as it was the Danish Vikings who settled in the area.The Angles were already in the area ,more so than Saxons,when they arrived and the two groups appear to have assimilated quite well.As the Angles homeland was situated just below the Jutland peninsula then there may have already been some crossover,linguistically, prior to both groups coming to the British Isles.If you hear examples of people who inhabit the Angle homelands in the present day then you can hear distinct similarities to our modern dialect of English,far more than what can be heard in retelling of Saxon verse of old.This ties in with the supposition that modern English,as we know it,owes more to the mixture of Angle/Danish Viking than Saxon,therefore meaning modern English is really Yorkshire English.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Mon 24 Dec, 2007 11:32 pm

Another good example of this is that 'hill/mountain' and 'valley' in Swedish and Norwegian[which is really a dialect of Swedish] is ' fjell' and 'dal' - or 'fell' and 'dale' in our dialect.

BIG N · Post by **BIG N** » Tue 25 Dec, 2007 3:31 am

OK - I have only scan read this thread (apologies now) so if I repeat anything that I have missed then I am sorry.I come from Huddersfield and our local dialect was very different to local stuff in Leeds so can I give you a few of ours ?A-yup = Hey upNa-then = Now then Si-thy = See youThya-banna-be = You are bound to beTha-nos = You knowLeg it = do a runnerKnack im - give him a kickingcanna = Can I ?We used to - lek art = Play outwill post some more soon

geoffb · Post by **geoffb** » Fri 04 Jan, 2008 1:17 pm

electricaldave wrote: Marbles are properly called 'taws'http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/MarblesHowever we always called the big ones 'bollies' probably derived from the french 'bolle', no idea how that got to Leeds though.'Mithering' is a good old northern word.Weshing instead of washing. 'Get the weshin done' 'Wesh thy lugs out''I'll go ter't foot of our steps'Here's an example of leeds speak.http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sound ... /leeds/How about 'fathoming' something ?I once saw a dialect map of Leeds in the main library using just the two words, 'daddy long-legs' and 'ginnyspinner'.Ginnyspinner tended to be toward the north and west of Leeds. Daddy long legs toward South Leeds, and asolutely no-one called them craneflies. Dave,I thought bollie came from bottle washer, the glass ball used to seal the bottles.Fathoming could be a nautical term used to find the bottom of the ocean, i.e. get to the bottom of.

Si · Post by Si » Fri 04 Jan, 2008 1:26 pm

We called ball bearings used as marbles "bollies" for obvious reasons.