Dialect/slang

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Sun 23 Mar, 2008 1:31 pm

Thanks for all those posted since I signed off last.Sumguddunsthee-er!Quite recently there was a news item about a chap named Sharpe.(You'll never guess his first name?) L U K E !Some parents don't bother to mentally 'see' what theyare letting their offspring in for in later life!Things like; Robert(BOB)Downe!(brother.Ben!)I'm sure we can think of more??? (NOT Annie More!)Esther Dunne?'Go to Helen Hunt for it' (dare I mention her two brothers, Eric and Isaac?).We had a Pru man once called Ronald Soles!Ed.Balls. Cabinet Minister.Formally a footballer?Let's have 'em then!Arry

Post by **cnosni** » Sun 23 Mar, 2008 1:37 pm

arry awk wrote: Thanks for all those posted since I signed off last.Sumguddunsthee-er!Quite recently there was a news item about a chap named Sharpe.(You'll never guess his first name?) L U K E !Some parents don't bother to mentally 'see' what theyare letting their offspring in for in later life!Things like; Robert(BOB)Downe!(brother.Ben!)I'm sure we can think of more??? (NOT Annie More!)Esther Dunne?'Go to Helen Hunt for it' (dare I mention her two brothers, Eric and Isaac?).We had a Pru man once called Ronald Soles!Ed.Balls. Cabinet Minister.Formally a footballer?Let's have 'em then!Arry David Kossov's spanish cousin Juan

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 23 Mar, 2008 4:35 pm

arry awk wrote: Thanks for all those posted since I signed off last.Sumguddunsthee-er!Quite recently there was a news item about a chap named Sharpe.(You'll never guess his first name?) L U K E !Some parents don't bother to mentally 'see' what theyare letting their offspring in for in later life!Things like; Robert(BOB)Downe!(brother.Ben!)I'm sure we can think of more??? (NOT Annie More!)Esther Dunne?'Go to Helen Hunt for it' (dare I mention her two brothers, Eric and Isaac?).We had a Pru man once called Ronald Soles!Ed.Balls. Cabinet Minister.Formally a footballer?Let's have 'em then!Arry Orsen CartTheresa Green

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Sun 23 Mar, 2008 4:36 pm

Trojan wrote: arry awk wrote: Thanks for all those posted since I signed off last.Sumguddunsthee-er!Quite recently there was a news item about a chap named Sharpe.(You'll never guess his first name?) L U K E !Some parents don't bother to mentally 'see' what theyare letting their offspring in for in later life!Things like; Robert(BOB)Downe!(brother.Ben!)I'm sure we can think of more??? (NOT Annie More!)Esther Dunne?'Go to Helen Hunt for it' (dare I mention her two brothers, Eric and Isaac?).We had a Pru man once called Ronald Soles!Ed.Balls. Cabinet Minister.Formally a footballer?Let's have 'em then!Arry Orsen CartTheresa Green Eli Phant

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Sun 23 Mar, 2008 9:00 pm

Ben Dover - Obviously ;-)One knew a guy called Ivor Baum, When said quickly......

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Sun 23 Mar, 2008 9:15 pm

is the word 'sloughened' used in Leeds?I've never heard anyone use it since I've lived here.I don't suppose that strictly speaking it is dialectif you are sloughened you are put into a state despondency(I'm guessing) ie a slough of despair.I think it's a great word.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 23 Mar, 2008 11:38 pm

fevlad wrote: is the word 'sloughened' used in Leeds?I've never heard anyone use it since I've lived here.I don't suppose that strictly speaking it is dialectif you are sloughened you are put into a state despondency(I'm guessing) ie a slough of despair.I think it's a great word. It was certainly used in Morley. "ee were fair sloughened" Another dialect word that was used when I was a kid was "doy" meaning love. - Context "nivver mind doy" It's a word you never hear these days in Morley, Leeds anywhere. It must have died with my grandparents and their generation. Another Morleyism you perhaps don't hear in Leeds is a version of "no worries" "nivver bother"

zip55 · Post by **zip55** » Mon 24 Mar, 2008 1:38 am

Orsen CartTheresa GreenI work with a Theresa Green ... and when I first worked at a bank in Manly (Aus), we had awoman hold an account by the name of Mary Christmas.

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Mon 24 Mar, 2008 10:45 am

Trojan wrote: fevlad wrote: is the word 'sloughened' used in Leeds?I've never heard anyone use it since I've lived here.I don't suppose that strictly speaking it is dialectif you are sloughened you are put into a state despondency(I'm guessing) ie a slough of despair.I think it's a great word. It was certainly used in Morley. "ee were fair sloughened" Another dialect word that was used when I was a kid was "doy" meaning love. - Context "nivver mind doy" It's a word you never hear these days in Morley, Leeds anywhere. It must have died with my grandparents and their generation. Another Morleyism you perhaps don't hear in Leeds is a version of "no worries" "nivver bother" I've never heard people 'theeing and thying' in Leeds.yet it's still common in the towns within a few miles of it.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Mon 24 Mar, 2008 1:00 pm

I've never heard people 'theeing and thying' in Leeds.yet it's still common in the towns within a few miles of it.You certainly hear it in Morley - only 4.5 miles from Leeds Town Hall. I always think of Leeds's dialect as being a sort of "Yorkshire Cockney" big city style of talk - obviously Liz Dawn epitomised the Leeds dialect for me. But then Bradford is not that much different - or Pudsey. Born and bred Morleans like me will "go to Leeds" Loiners who live in Morley will "go to Town" Morley was a pit and mill town and to be truthful although part of Leeds for nearly 35 years, has more in common in its speech patterns with Batley Dewsbury and Ossett.