Dialect/slang

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Sun 18 Jan, 2009 10:31 am

Bert wrote: Thank you so much Lilysmum. It's given me a great kick to know that 'man med o' band' is real Leeds dialect and not just a personal mannerism of old George Calvert's. It must have become pretty rare even by the mid 1940s though - I never heard anyone other than George use it back in those days in east Leeds farming country. Hi Bert, My grandad was born and bred in Yeadon and had a very broad Yorkshire accent.I spent a lot of time with him in my early years and as a result use phrases like the above on a regular basis often resulting in blank looks from the kids!

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 18 Jan, 2009 3:37 pm

"Sloughened" = very upset is a term you used to hear but don't seem to any more.

Uno Hoo · Post by **Uno Hoo** » Mon 19 Jan, 2009 11:58 am

Trojan wrote: "Sloughened" = very upset is a term you used to hear but don't seem to any more. Much better than "gutted". Reminiscent of "The Slough of Despond" in Pilgrim's Progress.My mother used sloughened.

rangieowner · Post by **rangieowner** » Thu 22 Jan, 2009 7:20 pm

Excuse me if this has been covered before but as i can't be ar*ed re-reading this whole thread I'll chance it! What names are used for the three main meals in a day? I have always been brought up with Breakfast, Dinner and Tea! but i have noticed more people using Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner!!! Which one is correct and where did the wrong one derive from????

Loiner in Cyprus · Post by **Loiner in Cyprus** » Thu 22 Jan, 2009 8:40 pm

rangieowner wrote: Excuse me if this has been covered before but as i can't be ar*ed re-reading this whole thread I'll chance it! What names are used for the three main meals in a day? I have always been brought up with Breakfast, Dinner and Tea! but i have noticed more people using Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner!!! Which one is correct and where did the wrong one derive from???? Rangieowner, What an interesting topic you have raised. I was raised up with Breakfast Dinner and Tea, as was my wife. I started my working life down the pit and said breakfast dinner and tea. Then moved into TV electronics and then the IT industry and had the good fortune over the years of promotions and seeing the world, business wise etc. I now say breakfast lunch and dinner. But my wife, of 40 years, still insists on Breakfast dinner and tea. For us it is an interesting!!! after dinner, or is it tea, converastion. But, early doors is still early doors.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Thu 22 Jan, 2009 10:15 pm

Loiner in Cyprus wrote: rangieowner wrote: Excuse me if this has been covered before but as i can't be ar*ed re-reading this whole thread I'll chance it! What names are used for the three main meals in a day? I have always been brought up with Breakfast, Dinner and Tea! but i have noticed more people using Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner!!! Which one is correct and where did the wrong one derive from???? Rangieowner, What an interesting topic you have raised. I was raised up with Breakfast Dinner and Tea, as was my wife. I started my working life down the pit and said breakfast dinner and tea. Then moved into TV electronics and then the IT industry and had the good fortune over the years of promotions and seeing the world, business wise etc. I now say breakfast lunch and dinner. But my wife, of 40 years, still insists on Breakfast dinner and tea. For us it is an interesting!!! after dinner, or is it tea, converastion. But, early doors is still early doors. And where does supper come? What is supper? When I was a kid we had breakfast, (mucky fat and bread) dinner (something with chips) tea (sandwiches, ham salad, ) and just before bed (glass of milk and a biscuit) But there used to be a chippy next to the Kings Arms at Gildersome Cross Roads, and it had a dining room attached which was called "a supper bar" presumably for a "fish supper" So what's a supper?

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Thu 22 Jan, 2009 10:58 pm

Yes rangie its breakfast,dinner,tea and supper in the brandy household

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Thu 22 Jan, 2009 11:24 pm

If you have dinner in the evening why are dinner ladies called dinner ladies? Even that southern twerp Jamie Oliver knew that.

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Fri 23 Jan, 2009 12:28 am

Have a look athttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner...

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Fri 23 Jan, 2009 1:44 am

LS1 wrote: Have a look athttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner... And wikipedia is the fount of all knowledge? I think not. We know when we eat our dinner. This is a Leeds forum. *hoistspinny*