Dialect/slang

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 28 Sep, 2008 10:30 pm

Briggy wrote: Excellent site, Geordie Exile! I spent a good while reading through them all! I guess 'the same as' and 'as bad as' are very similar in meaning so that seems to tie in.Just to harp back again on previous offering, does anybody else remember vinegar being called alleker? I was fair flummoxed in a chip shop in Liversedge when I was asked if I wanted alleker on my chips. Apparently it harks back to long, long ago. The French who could grow vines had vin aigre i.e. sour wine. We frozen northerners couldn't grow grapes but made ale instead so we had ale aigre - sour ale which got shortened/changed to alleker. S'amazin what you can learn from going to a chippy! The thing is that in most chip shops the vinegar is not "alecar" but "non brewed condiment" - which is a solution of acetic acid with caramel added for colour and nothing added for taste. Give me malt vinegar (alecar) every time.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Wed 01 Oct, 2008 9:57 pm

Apparently because of the Viking connection many Norman French words are similar to Yorkshire dialect words herehttp://www.viking.no/e/heritage/nor_yor.htm

Si · Post by Si » Fri 03 Oct, 2008 11:06 am

Back-end - End of summer/beginning of autumn, as in, "This weather is a bit back-end-ish.".

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Fri 03 Oct, 2008 11:13 am

Si wrote: Back-end - End of summer/beginning of autumn, as in, "This weather is a bit back-end-ish.". Your right,it's a bit nippy today.

Fleetline · Post by **Fleetline** » Fri 03 Oct, 2008 4:52 pm

Quoting from a earlier posting****"Chunder is an Australian bit of slang i believe,its the same as a technicolour yawn or talking to god down the great white telephone,in other words,vomiting." ****I used to know someone in Leeds years ago, whose favorite saying was "why's the always carrots in yer chunder!"A a saying in my wife's family was when you were being soft, complaining of the cold etc, was "don't be nesh!" Any one know were that comes from?Something else I've only heard in Leeds is the use of the word Ginnel for a passage between streets.

Fevsdad · Post by **Fevsdad** » Fri 03 Oct, 2008 5:28 pm

Lilysmum wrote: Si wrote: Back-end - End of summer/beginning of autumn, as in, "This weather is a bit back-end-ish.". Your right,it's a bit nippy today. 'tis a bit parky today.

Pashy · Post by **Pashy** » Sat 04 Oct, 2008 6:06 am

Twenty five years ago this week Australia beat the Septic Tanks to win the Americas CupTheir team song was from a band called Men at Work who sang"We are the men from down under where beer does flow and men do chunder"chunder = spew, park a tiger, hurl the berley and many moreso there.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sat 04 Oct, 2008 12:02 pm

Pashy wrote: Twenty five years ago this week Australia beat the Septic Tanks to win the Americas CupTheir team song was from a band called Men at Work who sang"We are the men from down under where beer does flow and men do chunder"chunder = spew, park a tiger, hurl the berley and many moreso there. Oh it means make a street pizza!

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Sat 04 Oct, 2008 6:01 pm

Trojan wrote: Pashy wrote: Twenty five years ago this week Australia beat the Septic Tanks to win the Americas CupTheir team song was from a band called Men at Work who sang"We are the men from down under where beer does flow and men do chunder"chunder = spew, park a tiger, hurl the berley and many moreso there. Oh it means make a street pizza! Or shouting for 'Huey' over somebody's garden wall?

Glenny3363 · Post by **Glenny3363** » Sat 04 Oct, 2008 6:52 pm

Maybe a bit off track, but my dad uses a number of phrases as insults or comments about people, not sure they are unique to Leeds/Yorkshire though!Tart in a trance - someone useless at something or doing it in a girlie fashion, such as he's putting like a tart in a trance (golf) or anything similar.She's got a face like a box a frogs - uglyShe's got a face like the back of a tram crash - dittoShe's got a face like a rivet catchers bucket - ditto!She's got a face like a melted wellie - ditto againHe must have known a lot of ugly women!!!! (my mum excluded obviously!!!!!!!!!)Anyone know any similar???