Dialect/slang

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Tue 18 Mar, 2008 1:17 pm

[quotenick="fevlad"] Trojan wrote: A good source of Mitchell is the thinking person's Ian Clayton(shudder) AS bad as that? Oh dear!

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Tue 18 Mar, 2008 1:51 pm

In the YEP a few years ago they did a feature on old Yorkshire sayings. One was "You're as awkward as Dick's hatband". Further enquiries and letters from readers revealed that Dick's hatband was ak'ard because it "went round nine times and still didn't meet". Which reminds me of another saying - sorry if someone's already mentioned it:'It's black over Bill's mother's'. You know what I'm saying?

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Tue 18 Mar, 2008 5:18 pm

Goodereinnit?Yes I'm afraid a lot of regional sayings (Lancs Yorks MidlandsLincoln etc), are identical when run together as one word,and not at all authentic to one area.Harry ('G' Not Me!) has followed the path of other so called 'Authors' and made it up as he went along!I love the individual and authentic sayings like 'It's looking blackower Fred's barn' (or ' Mother's'!) meaning; 'It looks likeit's going to rain!' Luvly stuff! Thanks G.Ex!Arry

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Tue 18 Mar, 2008 5:47 pm

arry awk wrote: Goodereinnit?Yes I'm afraid a lot of regional sayings (Lancs Yorks MidlandsLincoln etc), are identical when run together as one word,and not at all authentic to one area.Harry ('G' Not Me!) has followed the path of other so called 'Authors' and made it up as he went along!I love the individual and authentic sayings like 'It's looking blackower Fred's barn' (or ' Mother's'!) meaning; 'It looks likeit's going to rain!' Luvly stuff! Thanks G.Ex!Arry Aye it's a brahma of a website! [Hope I've spelt that one right - never seen it written down!]A couple of other usages I think fairly peculiar to the region are 'starved' to mean cold rather than very hungry, and 'sharp' to mean quick, rather than pointed. Why do we say [for instance] "five mile" or "ten week" instead of five miles or ten weeks?

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Tue 18 Mar, 2008 6:45 pm

Geordie-exile wrote: arry awk wrote: Goodereinnit?Yes I'm afraid a lot of regional sayings (Lancs Yorks MidlandsLincoln etc), are identical when run together as one word,and not at all authentic to one area.Harry ('G' Not Me!) has followed the path of other so called 'Authors' and made it up as he went along!I love the individual and authentic sayings like 'It's looking blackower Fred's barn' (or ' Mother's'!) meaning; 'It looks likeit's going to rain!' Luvly stuff! Thanks G.Ex!Arry Aye it's a brahma of a website! [Hope I've spelt that one right - never seen it written down!]A couple of other usages I think fairly peculiar to the region are 'starved' to mean cold rather than very hungry, and 'sharp' to mean quick, rather than pointed. Why do we say [for instance] "five mile" or "ten week" instead of five miles or ten weeks? "fresh" to mean drunk.

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Tue 18 Mar, 2008 7:00 pm

The only 'Fresh' I recall was after I got my face slappedby the current girlfriend!I think 'Starved stiff' was the saying for Cold?

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Tue 18 Mar, 2008 11:03 pm

Trojan wrote: Geordie-exile wrote: arry awk wrote: Goodereinnit?Yes I'm afraid a lot of regional sayings (Lancs Yorks MidlandsLincoln etc), are identical when run together as one word,and not at all authentic to one area.Harry ('G' Not Me!) has followed the path of other so called 'Authors' and made it up as he went along!I love the individual and authentic sayings like 'It's looking blackower Fred's barn' (or ' Mother's'!) meaning; 'It looks likeit's going to rain!' Luvly stuff! Thanks G.Ex!Arry Aye it's a brahma of a website! [Hope I've spelt that one right - never seen it written down!]A couple of other usages I think fairly peculiar to the region are 'starved' to mean cold rather than very hungry, and 'sharp' to mean quick, rather than pointed. Why do we say [for instance] "five mile" or "ten week" instead of five miles or ten weeks? "fresh" to mean drunk. they say that around Keighley a lot.'gassed' means totally paralytic in Keighley and its environs

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Sat 22 Mar, 2008 6:20 pm

How about 'Ah'll clatter thi lugoil for thi!'?Said to a naughty child or a 'Fresh ' boyfriend!

zip55 · Post by **zip55** » Sat 22 Mar, 2008 11:38 pm

Thanks 'Arry haven't heard 'clatter' for ages. My dad used to use it all the time.

Croggy · Post by **Croggy** » Sun 23 Mar, 2008 12:45 am

arry awk wrote: The only 'Fresh' I recall was after I got my face slappedby the current girlfriend!I think 'Starved stiff' was the saying for Cold? I remember years ago, friends from Bradford using 'fresh' to mean drunk - that was the first time I'd heard it in that context.and my dad would say 'starved to death' if it was cold.