Dialect/slang

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Sat 29 Nov, 2008 1:48 pm

It amazes me how many people say "Pacifically" instead of specifically.

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Sat 29 Nov, 2008 2:35 pm

Lilysmum wrote: It amazes me how many people say "Pacifically" instead of specifically. Yes that one puzzles me too lilysmum,i remember once a friend of mine came out with the statement "im bloody well pacifically soaked"But then again we were sailing from south America across to Australia and he had just fell overboard lol

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Sat 29 Nov, 2008 2:51 pm

Brandy wrote: Lilysmum wrote: It amazes me how many people say "Pacifically" instead of specifically. Yes that one puzzles me too lilysmum,i remember once a friend of mine came out with the statement "im bloody well pacifically soaked"But then again we were sailing from south America across to Australia and he had just fell overboard lol Ah ha! so that's how fev vanished,but did he fall or was he pushed?

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Sat 29 Nov, 2008 3:55 pm

Uno Hoo wrote: Geordie-exile wrote: leesparky wrote: Leeds slang is great.However, the bit that bugs me is saying 'lend' and 'borrow' the wrong way round - argh! It drives me mad!!! It is annoying, but it's not Leeds-centric I don't think - just a common mis-statement. Like 'conflab' for the more correct 'confab'. Or saying 'haitch' instead of the correct 'aitch'. 'Brought' instead of 'bought' is another I hear a lot. I don't know if these are Leeds 'sayings' but I remember a lot of my contemporaries saying 'bockle' and 'chimley'. Don't get me going about aitches. More people these days say 'haitch' rather than 'aitch'. And they think they're being so correct. poor ignorant benighted souls. My office manageress, an otherwise lovely lady, told me that she had been taught to say it that way at school, therefore it had to be correct. Such touching faith some people have in the educational system!Some of the worst offenders are the National Hexpress train announcers. The buffet car is usually in Coach Haitch these days, not to mention station stops, whatever they may be That one had me stumped 'til I asked someone in the know. A station stop is a station where the train stops, I don't know why they say it like that cos you can't get off at a station where the train doesn't stop!!

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Sat 29 Nov, 2008 3:57 pm

Geordie-exile wrote: leesparky wrote: Leeds slang is great.However, the bit that bugs me is saying 'lend' and 'borrow' the wrong way round - argh! It drives me mad!!! It is annoying, but it's not Leeds-centric I don't think - just a common mis-statement. Like 'conflab' for the more correct 'confab'. Or saying 'haitch' instead of the correct 'aitch'. 'Brought' instead of 'bought' is another I hear a lot. I don't know if these are Leeds 'sayings' but I remember a lot of my contemporaries saying 'bockle' and 'chimley'. he he he my gran bless her, always called 'em chimley poms!!

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sat 29 Nov, 2008 4:18 pm

Uno Hoo wrote: Geordie-exile wrote: leesparky wrote: Leeds slang is great.However, the bit that bugs me is saying 'lend' and 'borrow' the wrong way round - argh! It drives me mad!!! It is annoying, but it's not Leeds-centric I don't think - just a common mis-statement. Like 'conflab' for the more correct 'confab'. Or saying 'haitch' instead of the correct 'aitch'. 'Brought' instead of 'bought' is another I hear a lot. I don't know if these are Leeds 'sayings' but I remember a lot of my contemporaries saying 'bockle' and 'chimley'. Don't get me going about aitches. More people these days say 'haitch' rather than 'aitch'. And they think they're being so correct. poor ignorant benighted souls. My office manageress, an otherwise lovely lady, told me that she had been taught to say it that way at school, therefore it had to be correct. Such touching faith some people have in the educational system!Some of the worst offenders are the National Hexpress train announcers. The buffet car is usually in Coach Haitch these days, not to mention station stops, whatever they may be Shouldn't that be train Hannouncers In Spain it's proxima parada - next stop.

FLOJO · Post by **FLOJO** » Sat 29 Nov, 2008 4:41 pm

A word used when I was young was He or She is scranning again, which meant he was eating again

Uno Hoo · Post by **Uno Hoo** » Sat 29 Nov, 2008 4:48 pm

Shouldn't that be train Hannouncers No, it should be badly educated nerks.And while we're about it, altho' admittedly it's not peculiar to Leeds, is the gradual disappearance of the pronoun 'those', to be replaced by 'them'.Scenario: Shoe shop, anywhere in Yorkshire.Customer: " I want a pair o' them brown shoes what's in t'winder".(Sometimes, but by no means always, accompanied by 'please').Assistant, (pointing to a pair); "Certainly, sir. Do you mean those?"Customer: "No. Shoes. I'll buy th'ose at t'drapers!"

Post by **chameleon** » Sat 29 Nov, 2008 5:58 pm

'My office manageress, an otherwise lovely lady, told me that she had been taught to say it that way at school, therefore it had to be correct. Such touching faith some people have in the educational system!Reminds me of an 'initiative' when our children were in their early days at schoo;, to give everything a 'tick' whether right or wrong, apparently to give encouragement to those who performance was below par. I wonder if this could be part of its leagcy.Much to the anger of one lady teacher, we made a point of remarking their work, to allow the children to see mistakes and learn from it for their own benefit. She didn't approve of green ink but was non the less, we allowed to understand the errors in her rationale!

rangieowner · Post by **rangieowner** » Sun 30 Nov, 2008 7:25 pm

Chrism wrote: zip55 wrote: jeffn wrote: zip55 wrote: yeh right .. scrumping (from scrumpy .. cider) but that's not what it was called in Leeds. Got to rack the brain a bit more .... and Chumping is getting firewood for Guy Fawkes night. While you're racking your brians Phil,I think the term might have been 'Apple Knocking' Correctamundo .... and of course you'd be an expert on apples .. being a Newton ... how are you pal? Well, I'm from Armley and we used to go 'scrumping' or even easier we'd go knocking for 'windfalls'. we used to say "Apple Kipping" in Horsforth