Dialect/slang

FLOJO · Post by **FLOJO** » Fri 21 Nov, 2008 12:05 pm

I can remember as a kid if I said I thought my mother would say you know what thought did he followed a dust cart and thought it was a wedding, I dint know if that was just a Yorkshire saying or not.

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Fri 21 Nov, 2008 12:31 pm

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'.

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Fri 21 Nov, 2008 12:49 pm

FLOJO wrote: I can remember as a kid if I said I thought my mother would say you know what thought did he followed a dust cart and thought it was a wedding, I dint know if that was just a Yorkshire saying or not. There's quite a few variations on that sying, my dad used to say ... "You know what thought did, he thought he'd s*** himself and when he looked he had"

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Fri 21 Nov, 2008 5:22 pm

simong wrote: TelBoy wrote: I'm not sure if this has cropped up before (a quick search didn't show anything) but does anybody know the origin of the phrase'got t'monk on' as used for someone who's a bit maungy.As in 'Whats wrong with young Enoch, he's a bit quiet?' 'Oh, ignore him he's got t'monk on.'My father used to use this phrase (born in Hunslet in the '20s) but I haven't heard it in day to day usage in years.I did read somewhere that it may have originated from the vows of silence that monks used to take. If someone has taken umbrage and is refusing to talk then he has become monk like or perhaps got the monk's habit on ie got t'monk on. I learned it probably 25 years ago and I still use it. I've always assumed it meant to sulk silently like a monk. I can't remember where I heard it first now though. My school had quite a wide intake and took in the north-west suburbs of Doncaster and the pit villages east of Mexborough, which themselves were inhabited by people from other mining areas in the country. 'Get face on' and 'get ar5e on' mean the same thing. Also "got a cob on" don't know where that comes from either" in a right bez" (bad mood) Losing your rag (losing your temper)

leesparky · Post by **leesparky** » Fri 21 Nov, 2008 10:17 pm

Leeds slang is great.However, the bit that bugs me is saying 'lend' and 'borrow' the wrong way round - argh! It drives me mad!!!

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Fri 21 Nov, 2008 11:48 pm

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'.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sat 22 Nov, 2008 5:04 pm

Lilysmum wrote: Also "got a cob on" don't know where that comes from either" in a right bez" (bad mood) Losing your rag (losing your temper) I think "got a cob on" is either a Scouse or naval expression, perhaps transferred into Liverpool via the docks.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sat 22 Nov, 2008 5:05 pm

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!!! Larn (learn) instead of teach as in "that'll larn 'im" Or as in Alan Bennetts "A Cream Cracker under the Settee" "they want learnin' that on their induction course"

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sat 29 Nov, 2008 12:17 pm

Brussen - someone who's too big for his boots, thinks a lot of themselves, a big head.

Uno Hoo · Post by **Uno Hoo** » Sat 29 Nov, 2008 12:34 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'. 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