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tilly
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Post by tilly »

Yes Leodion scraps is still used in fish and chip shops but not by me i must add.Im a bit too heavy to be eating them. lol
No matter were i end my days im an Hunslet lad with Hunslet ways.

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tilly wrote: Yes Leodion scraps is still used in fish and chip shops but not by me i must add.Im a bit too heavy to be eating them. lol As a kid I loved scraps. Fish and chips with scraps and lots of salt and vinegar. A total no no now I would guess on health grounds, but yummy. Oh, and thick dripping with bits of meat still in on a sandwich with salt on! Surprised I'm still living!
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Leodian wrote: The Parksider wrote: Leodian wrote: Chuffing eck that is a good list buffaloskinner having had a skeg through it. I've used (stiill do) most of them but some I can't recall hearing. I'm from East Leeds, so near enough to Hunslet. You popped "skeg" in deliberately Leo? Big north east Leeds word we used a lot in seacroft."Summat" was another although a drivation from the quens english. I was brought up in Osmondthorpe, so I'm an Ossy lad. Sort of between Hunslet and Seacroft. buffaloskinner mentions spice. I recall many years back mentioning spice in a shop in Lancashire and getting a totally baffled look and I had to explain it was a word for sweets. Talking of slang words is scraps still used when buying fish & chips as in "fish & chips with scraps on"?. There is no fish & chip shop near me, so I've not used one in very many years. Scraps in Leeds, scraps in Bradford.Bits in Huddersfield. There's even a chippy in Mirfield called "Wi Bits"Scratchings in Wigan, where I worked for twenty years.
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Nice to see this level of interest, but haven't we covered all this in the dialect/slang thread?

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Your right Si,            But lots of these are somewhat new to t'game. And ' blackclock' was never a cockroach. It was just the common black beetle you can find in any garden/dark cellar et al.I never saw a cockroach until I was 18yrs. When the R.E's sent me a wandering abroad,( Middle East mostly). And I'd been using the word ' blackclock', for the common beetle from year blob. And as my pen-name suggests, I'm from the posh side of the river, East Street.

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Bloody 'Ell! That IS posh!!! The posh bits of my family tree also lived in the East Street area - about 120 years ago! (It were REALLY posh then! )        

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Si. Son!!!

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Farbank! DAD!!!

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By heck theres been some reet goings on owert river in East Street.
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My apologies to your mum Si.Duty called, the trumpets were blowing etc., But you turned out a credit to your ma.A lovely boy, lovely boy.

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