Dialect/slang

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 10 Aug, 2008 3:23 pm

Lilysmum wrote: Has anyone else heard of a clothes horse being called a "winter edge"? Yes, that's what my mam called hers. We used to invert it and put a blanket over it and pretend it was a tent.Other washing implements were "posser" which was used in a tub to aggitate the clothes. "Dolly Blue" which was supposed to improve the whiteness.I think winter edge may be a form of winter Hedge - perhaps they used to dry clothes in the past by spreading them on a hedge but couldn't in the winter - just a theory of mine.

sundowner · Post by **sundowner** » Sun 10 Aug, 2008 4:30 pm

Trojan wrote: Lilysmum wrote: Has anyone else heard of a clothes horse being called a "winter edge"? Yes, that's what my mam called hers. We used to invert it and put a blanket over it and pretend it was a tent.Other washing implements were "posser" which was used in a tub to aggitate the clothes. "Dolly Blue" which was supposed to improve the whiteness.I think winter edge may be a form of winter Hedge - perhaps they used to dry clothes in the past by spreading them on a hedge but couldn't in the winter - just a theory of mine. Dont foreget the setpot every celler in our street had one it was for boiling the clothes in it had a fire place underneath to light a fire to heat the water. When it was out of its brick surround it looked like a witches coldron made of cast iron with three legs.

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Sun 10 Aug, 2008 6:20 pm

sundowner wrote: Trojan wrote: Lilysmum wrote: Has anyone else heard of a clothes horse being called a "winter edge"? Yes, that's what my mam called hers. We used to invert it and put a blanket over it and pretend it was a tent.Other washing implements were "posser" which was used in a tub to aggitate the clothes. "Dolly Blue" which was supposed to improve the whiteness.I think winter edge may be a form of winter Hedge - perhaps they used to dry clothes in the past by spreading them on a hedge but couldn't in the winter - just a theory of mine. Dont foreget the setpot every celler in our street had one it was for boiling the clothes in it had a fire place underneath to light a fire to heat the water. When it was out of its brick surround it looked like a witches coldron made of cast iron with three legs. And those big wooden tongs for getting the washing out of red hot water.I wonder if winter edge comes from putting it round the edge of the fire to dry washing in winter?

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 10 Aug, 2008 6:22 pm

sundowner wrote: [Dont foreget the setpot every celler in our street had one it was for boiling the clothes in it had a fire place underneath to light a fire to heat the water. When it was out of its brick surround it looked like a witches coldron made of cast iron with three legs. We didn't have a setpot - it had been taken out - the chimney was still there (as were the brackets for the gas lights in the bedrooms) but the setpot itself had been replaced by a gas boiler.

kelly · Post by **kelly** » Sun 10 Aug, 2008 7:39 pm

grumpytramp wrote: Si Apologies I don't ........ having left the city 24 years ago and having spent the last twenty years in Scotland, I have assimilated a vast range of dialect most of which isn't my native dialect (for example I constantly revert to saying this and that needs a 'redd up', meaning a tidy up which I think is a Scots mining term). I assumed a decade ago that my dialect was lost!What came as a shock though was a chance encounter in a ski centre car park in Montana a couple of years ago. As I got changed to get ready to spend a day skiing, the bloke parked next to me asked me in a typical american style how things were going? I cannot honestly remember what my response was other than general pleasantries. His immediate reply was a shock though "Man, you must be from the north east Leeds"Turns out he had spent two years working for an oil company in West Yorkshire (I seem to recall, based in Pool in Wharfedale), had initially been overwhelmed by the local dialect and then utterly bemused by the local (and very local) variations in dialect/accent. In the couple of years in West Yorkshire he used to entertain himself trying to identify the origin of folks he encountered just from dialect/accent alone! I wonder if the american basketball team the LA LAKERS the name laker has it been taken from the yorkshire dialect word laik for play?

Uno Hoo · Post by **Uno Hoo** » Sun 10 Aug, 2008 8:57 pm

Yes, my mother, 1913-92, always used that term for clothes-horse. She came from Farsley.Apologise for not having trawled through all previous 20 pages to see whether this has come up before - she would, when busy, describe herself to be "threng as Throp's wife". She didn't know the provenance of the term, though. Anyone else come across it?

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 10 Aug, 2008 9:06 pm

[quotenick="kelly"] grumpytramp wrote: Si I wonder if the american basketball team the LA LAKERS the name laker has it been taken from the yorkshire dialect word laik for play? I suppose it's possible that it comes from the original Scandanavian root of the word - "lech" to play (Leggo comes from the same root) there are after all large number of people of Scandanavian origin in the US - you only have to listen to some one like Garison Keeler to realise that.

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Sun 10 Aug, 2008 9:06 pm

Hi uno hoo if you look on the previous page throps wife is mentioned there

compton · Post by **compton** » Sun 10 Aug, 2008 10:10 pm

Trojan wrote: sundowner wrote: [Dont foreget the setpot every celler in our street had one it was for boiling the clothes in it had a fire place underneath to light a fire to heat the water. When it was out of its brick surround it looked like a witches coldron made of cast iron with three legs. We didn't have a setpot - it had been taken out - the chimney was still there (as were the brackets for the gas lights in the bedrooms) but the setpot itself had been replaced by a gas boiler. I remember the setpot, also I believe referred to as the "copper" as quite a few were made of this, ie. purrit int copper till mundy, It,ll soak.

Uno Hoo · Post by **Uno Hoo** » Sun 10 Aug, 2008 11:50 pm

Lilysmum wrote: Hi uno hoo if you look on the previous page throps wife is mentioned there Gee Whiz, how embarrassing. I've now got to admit to the entire list that I CBA'd to look back even one page!! In my defence, for all I knew it could have been much further back!!! Thanks, Lilysmum.It's a great thread, though, so I won't regard it as a penance to read it all through.