Dialect/slang

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Fri 02 Jan, 2009 12:50 pm

Ony = any and Mony = many are used in and around Morley. I'm not sure how common this is in the rest of Leeds/W Yorks. You certainly hear it in Rochdale/Oldham. Moider - to pester is another term I hear in Lancashire and Morley. You also hear Myther - same word presumably.Mardy is a very common Yorkshire word - sulky "mardyar$e"Given the Heavy Woollen District's connection with Lancashire (cotton warp woollen weft) I sometimes wonder if certain words and forms of speech peculiar the the HWD migrated there with the cotton. Just a theory.I accept Morley as a part of Leeds, but really in 1974, when the changes happened, the town had more in common with Batley, Dewsbury and Ossett.

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Fri 16 Jan, 2009 11:16 pm

I used a phrase today that apparently isn't known up here. I said someone would 'play pop with you'. Doesn't make sense when you think about it does it?

Bert · Post by **Bert** » Sat 17 Jan, 2009 12:01 am

Where I grew up in Crossgates 'chumps' weren't just any firewoood, they were specifically great chunks of wood for bonfire night, and 'chumping' was going gathering them, often, I'm ashamed to remember, by chopping off enormous limbs from healthy trees in Primrose Valley. Some local gangs preferred to nick other kids' chumps rather than gather their own, so the chumps were all dragged home to someone's back garden and protected by a round-the-clock shift of guards, before being dragging back down into the Valley on bonfire night to make the terrifyingly enormous blaze. All this was done independently by kids with an average age of about twelve. Them were the days.Before Crossgates I spent my infancy in Colton, playing most days on Joe Carrol's Farm on Meynell Road where I tried to 'help' the farm hand, George Calvert, with his millions of duties. Every time I made a mess of a job - i.e. almost every time I tried to do anything - old George would say 'Nay lad, gi ower, tha's like a man med o' band'. Anyone heard that one before?

Uno Hoo · Post by **Uno Hoo** » Sat 17 Jan, 2009 11:44 am

Before Crossgates I spent my infancy in Colton, playing most days on Joe Carrol's Farm on Meynell Road where I tried to 'help' the farm hand, George Calvert, with his millions of duties. Every time I made a mess of a job - i.e. almost every time I tried to do anything - old George would say 'Nay lad, gi ower, tha's like a man med o' band'. Anyone heard that one before? One of my maternal grandfather's regular sayings.

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Sat 17 Jan, 2009 12:35 pm

One of my grandad's sayings too! I mentioned it on this thread a while back

Uno Hoo · Post by **Uno Hoo** » Sat 17 Jan, 2009 1:53 pm

Hi LilysmumI thought it had cropped up before! But it's become a dickens of a long thread tp go checking back. UH

Bert · Post by **Bert** » Sat 17 Jan, 2009 8:17 pm

Hi LiliysmumI've done a search for 'band' on this thread and it only finds my message above. Can you recall what exactly was the phrase you posted before?

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Sat 17 Jan, 2009 9:05 pm

Hi Bert " Frame thissen,tha's like a man med o band" (band =string) it's on page 20 of this thread.

Bert · Post by **Bert** » Sat 17 Jan, 2009 11:18 pm

Thank you so much Lilysmum. It's given me a great kick to know that 'man med o' band' is real Leeds dialect and not just a personal mannerism of old George Calvert's. It must have become pretty rare even by the mid 1940s though - I never heard anyone other than George use it back in those days in east Leeds farming country.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 18 Jan, 2009 1:21 am

Bert wrote: Thank you so much Lilysmum. It's given me a great kick to know that 'man med o' band' is real Leeds dialect and not just a personal mannerism of old George Calvert's. It must have become pretty rare even by the mid 1940s though - I never heard anyone other than George use it back in those days in east Leeds farming country. I'd have said it's peculiar to the Rhubarb Triangle rather than just Leeds.