Dialect/slang

zip55 · Post by **zip55** » Mon 30 Jun, 2008 4:22 am

sundowner wrote: Just rememberd i have heard my mam call the alarm clock the leram eg i never heard the leram go off dont know if the spelling is right but when pronounced it sounds like lair am. I do not make this stuff up i promise An archaic word for alarm is alarum ... maybe this is it?

sundowner · Post by **sundowner** » Mon 30 Jun, 2008 8:32 am

zip55 wrote: sundowner wrote: Just rememberd i have heard my mam call the alarm clock the leram eg i never heard the leram go off dont know if the spelling is right but when pronounced it sounds like lair am. I do not make this stuff up i promise An archaic word for alarm is alarum ... maybe this is it? Hi zip 55 i think your right with the local dialect to me it fits into place many thanks for that .I have another word moochin sorry if the spelling is wrong i cant spell every day words never mind this kind.EG What are you moochin about over there for. The men in the white coats are on there way.

Post by **cnosni** » Tue 01 Jul, 2008 1:37 am

zip55 wrote: sundowner wrote: Just rememberd i have heard my mam call the alarm clock the leram eg i never heard the leram go off dont know if the spelling is right but when pronounced it sounds like lair am. I do not make this stuff up i promise An archaic word for alarm is alarum ... maybe this is it? Leram/Lair am sounds a bit Lancastrian to me.

sundowner · Post by **sundowner** » Tue 01 Jul, 2008 8:52 am

cnosni wrote: zip55 wrote: sundowner wrote: Just rememberd i have heard my mam call the alarm clock the leram eg i never heard the leram go off dont know if the spelling is right but when pronounced it sounds like lair am. I do not make this stuff up i promise An archaic word for alarm is alarum ... maybe this is it? Leram/Lair am sounds a bit Lancastrian to me. Hi cnosni has far as i know we dont have any connection with Lancashire i think more Irish blood than any thing else .I have never heard any one else use this word but my mother.

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Tue 01 Jul, 2008 6:40 pm

Allair-um it is! bejabers an'behave yersel!I'm about 1/3 Irish me'sen! Don't ask!'Mooching' is a general expression. Not justLeeds dialect. It means skulking about orwandering slowly,deep in thought! (as in;'What time do they open?')!There is even a U.S. blues-y song called'Minnie the Moocher!' Mebbe b4 your time!

sundowner · Post by **sundowner** » Wed 02 Jul, 2008 8:52 am

arry awk wrote: Allair-um it is! bejabers an'behave yersel!I'm about 1/3 Irish me'sen! Don't ask!'Mooching' is a general expression. Not justLeeds dialect. It means skulking about orwandering slowly,deep in thought! (as in;'What time do they open?')!There is even a U.S. blues-y song called'Minnie the Moocher!' Mebbe b4 your time! Hi arry your a mine of information thanks for that tell you what it keeps the old grey matter working when you come on this site it gives me a reason to turn this electrical thingy on

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Wed 02 Jul, 2008 5:01 pm

Didn't know you had a vibrator?Watch out for VWF syndrome!

sundowner · Post by **sundowner** » Wed 02 Jul, 2008 7:07 pm

arry awk wrote: Didn't know you had a vibrator?Watch out for VWF syndrome! Hi arry just had a thought you said there was a blues song with moochin in it wondered if they brought the word with them when they were overpaid and over here.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sat 05 Jul, 2008 3:15 pm

In Morley the dialect word for a child is "barn" recently in Mallorca I saw a Children's Menu and the Danish version wasbarn spiseseddelIt's amazing how many of what our teachers in the fifties tried to stop us saying turn out to be genuine word from another language!

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Sat 05 Jul, 2008 5:02 pm

'Moochin.thru my tired old grey stuff,I remembered ;Me, 'Mam,We'er's me coit?' (coat)Mam, 'It's on<h>Dogshelf (Floor!),we'er tha left it!Also, 'Nah Think On!' (Don't forget) (Remember).Another school days 'chant';Way down in<h> cellar-oilwe'er <h> muck sticks o'<h>windasIf wi' all keep quietThen,<h>Bum-bailiffs wain't findus!Greeting a 'mate' ; "Na'lad! Ow'sta bin since'ah saw thi last?"