Dialect/slang

jim · Post by **jim** » Wed 26 May, 2010 1:05 am

I always understood "dinnae fash yersel" to be of Scots origin. Perhaps it entered local usage via Doctor Finlay's Casebook.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Wed 26 May, 2010 7:03 pm

jim wrote: I always understood "dinnae fash yersel" to be of Scots origin. Perhaps it entered local usage via Doctor Finlay's Casebook. So did I . Dunt is definitely Barnsley. I've heard "canna" for can't in Lancashire.In Morley they say "nivver bother" which means the same I suppose.

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Wed 26 May, 2010 7:23 pm

"Too daft to laugh at" - a not very good comedian."Fair to middlin'" - on being asked the state of one's health.

jim · Post by **jim** » Wed 26 May, 2010 7:30 pm

"He's a good turn but he's on too long"----he doesn't know when to shut up!

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Wed 26 May, 2010 8:25 pm

jim wrote: "He's a good turn but he's on too long"----he doesn't know when to shut up! He's all wind and watter! He's full of bull s%$£t!

Bramleygal · Post by **Bramleygal** » Wed 26 May, 2010 11:40 pm

Like a tart in a tranceORLike a fart in a windstorm(Hopeless)

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Thu 27 May, 2010 12:57 am

Like a fart in a windstorm(Hopeless) or a collender

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Thu 27 May, 2010 8:11 pm

Johnny39 wrote: "Fair to middlin'" - on being asked the state of one's health. "Fair to Middleton" (in Morley anyway)

Uno Hoo · Post by **Uno Hoo** » Thu 27 May, 2010 11:27 pm

stutterdog wrote: Trojan wrote: It's funny to think that when I was a kid there were plenty of people about who were born and brought up before the motor car was invented.My great aunt used to call what we called then and still call today "coaches" - "saloons" not charabancs. If my memory isn't playing tricks she wasn't alone either. Anyone else (Blakey) remember this term? I've heard people say shara's for buses ,never the full word. My sister, when very young, used the word "sharrow" in a school essay - one of those "What I did in the holidays" type things that we had to write about. She genuinely thought it was the correct word for motor coach, and that it was spelt to rhyme with "barrow". Problem was, we lived in Leicester at the time - we must have spent a lot of the summer break with my maternal grandparents in Farsley - and neither the teacher nor any of the other children had ever heard the term. She had some difficulty in explaining what it meant. as at the time she'd never heard the word "charabanc".

Bramleygal · Post by **Bramleygal** » Sun 30 May, 2010 9:02 pm

By gum!