Dialect/slang

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Sat 30 Aug, 2008 5:47 pm

Can't keep 'im off!Another daft song from schooldays for someonewe didn't like!OH, (Arry's) a funny-unwi' a face like a pickled oniona nose like a squashed 'termarta'and two legs like twigs!(or jamjars,or pots!)crewel lot, weren't we?OR!Good King Wences'knocked a fella senselessright in the middle of Marks and Spencers,a Bobby came outand gave him a cloutand that was the end of Good King Wences!

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sat 30 Aug, 2008 6:31 pm

Geordie-exile wrote: My childhood friend was from south of the river, I was from the other side. She used to call those decorative balls you hang on the Christmas tree 'Wesley balls'. I'd never heard that before or since. Anyone? We used to call them Wesley balls in Morley - a combination of Wassail and a Methodist upbringing I suppose.The term Wassail came about before beer was invented, one Christmas a group of revellers went into a pub were it had just been invented - they ordered cider and mead but the landlord said he only had ale "Wass ale?" they all cried and the name stuck!

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Sun 31 Aug, 2008 12:57 pm

There is an old Matelots' song that goes;'We wassailing,we wassailing etc!'lol agen!

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Sun 31 Aug, 2008 1:55 pm

*groan* arry you are incorrigible. [Make a pun of that if you can!]Thanks for the explanation all. Of course I knew what wassailing was - in fact I have wassailed more times than I care to remember - but I hadn't connected the two terms.

Croggy · Post by **Croggy** » Sun 31 Aug, 2008 9:10 pm

Geordie-exile wrote: My childhood friend was from south of the river, I was from the other side. She used to call those decorative balls you hang on the Christmas tree 'Wesley balls'. I'd never heard that before or since. Anyone? Both sets of grand-parents were from around Hunslet and they and my parents used to call them wesley/weslie balls.

Si · Post by Si » Mon 01 Sep, 2008 12:01 pm

Croggy wrote: Geordie-exile wrote: My childhood friend was from south of the river, I was from the other side. She used to call those decorative balls you hang on the Christmas tree 'Wesley balls'. I'd never heard that before or since. Anyone? Both sets of grand-parents were from around Hunslet and they and my parents used to call them wesley/weslie balls. At one time, some people used to put a glass ball in their window to ward off evil spirits. I wonder if there's any connection?Steve Jones should know.

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Mon 01 Sep, 2008 4:34 pm

OooooH Geordie exile lass. Hope you enjoyed being wassailed!Several times too!!!I've never been In 'Corrigible',wherever that is.Woodus Ridge a few times, mebbe, for some wassailingwi' me girlfriend but you have to be careful up thereas it's a steep slope down to 'beck!Anyway I dunno wassail the fuss is about!Merry Christmas!ArryXXPS we used to put a glass 'Optic' in our window,hopingsomeone would drop us a bottle of 'Bell's finest to use itwith. NObody ever did. Suppose you could say that it kept the 'Spirits' away!lol

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Mon 01 Sep, 2008 5:17 pm

arry awk wrote: OooooH Geordie exile lass. Hope you enjoyed being wassailed!Several times too!!!I've never been In 'Corrigible',wherever that is.Woodus Ridge a few times, mebbe, for some wassailingwi' me girlfriend but you have to be careful up thereas it's a steep slope down to 'beck!Anyway I dunno wassail the fuss is about!Merry Christmas!ArryXXPS we used to put a glass 'Optic' in our window,hopingsomeone would drop us a bottle of 'Bell's finest to use itwith. NObody ever did. Suppose you could say that it kept the 'Spirits' away!lol *concedes defeat*

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Mon 01 Sep, 2008 5:29 pm

Aw shucks! No stamina these exiles!

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sat 06 Sep, 2008 12:31 am

I've been reading a book about West Yorkshire life in the past and there's a passage in it about the collier coming home from the pit and getting a bath in front of the fire.The hot water is heated in the set pot (Things You Don't See Anymore) and is put into the bath, but the collier's back is washed by his wife and then rinsed with more hot water from the set pot carried in what my mam used to call a "lading can" but its true dialect name is a "piggin"I'd be fascinated to know the roots of this word - it sounds as though they may be Scandanavian.