Dialect/slang

The origins and history of placenames, nicknames, local slang, etc.
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Trojan
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Si wrote: I can't rememnber if this one has already been posted, but I've just come across it in a comment on Leodis:"Messages." Basic day-to-day shopping - bread, milk, eggs, butter, etc.Anyone know it? Errands in Morley.
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Si wrote: I can't rememnber if this one has already been posted, but I've just come across it in a comment on Leodis:"Messages." Basic day-to-day shopping - bread, milk, eggs, butter, etc.Anyone know it? The only person I've heard say that is my friend from Gateshead,when she moved down here she got a very strange look when she went to the fish shop and asked for a "paper",apparently that's fish and chips wrapped up in her language

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Si wrote: I can't rememnber if this one has already been posted, but I've just come across it in a comment on Leodis:"Messages." Basic day-to-day shopping - bread, milk, eggs, butter, etc.Anyone know it? We have old friends in Scotland (It's True!!!) whoSay 'Messages' for errands

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Lilysmum wrote: Si wrote: I can't rememnber if this one has already been posted, but I've just come across it in a comment on Leodis:"Messages." Basic day-to-day shopping - bread, milk, eggs, butter, etc.Anyone know it? The only person I've heard say that is my friend from Gateshead,when she moved down here she got a very strange look when she went to the fish shop and asked for a "paper",apparently that's fish and chips wrapped up in her language In Morley the free bits of batter are called scraps - the same in Leeds?In Dewsbury and surrounding area they're called "bits" -there's even a chippy in Mirfield called "wiBits" In Wigan where I've spent a lot of time what we in Morley call scraps they call scratchings.
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Scraps in Leeds, or at least in Bramley.

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Post by String o' beads »

The cut off between 'scraps' and 'bits' appears to be somewhere on Leeds Road between Morley and Birstall. I've not heard 'paper' in Gateshead, but I have been asked if I want batter on me fish and chips. Well, duh, yeah. Has anyone mentioned the saying, 'fish and dirks'? Used to hear that a lot when I was small.

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Geordie-exile wrote: The cut off between 'scraps' and 'bits' appears to be somewhere on Leeds Road between Morley and Birstall. I've not heard 'paper' in Gateshead, but I have been asked if I want batter on me fish and chips. Well, duh, yeah. Has anyone mentioned the saying, 'fish and dirks'? Used to hear that a lot when I was small. I've heard fish and nerksNothing they do in Gateshead surprises me. I once asked for a ham sandwich in a shop and the woman behind the counter said did I want pease puddin on it!
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Bramleygal
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Post by Bramleygal »

I thought it was fish and erks.

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Or fish & murphs

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slw wrote: Or fish & murphs The fellow that fronts Saturday Kitchen last Sat. James Martin was cooking a piece of haddock. He used the word "scraps",referring to bits of floating batter.He comes from the Scarborough area I believe.So it's not a Leeds word by any means.    
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