Lancs/Yorks old sayings

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Lancs/Yorks old sayings

Post by conyoviejo » Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:04 pm

Put wood in th’ole..

Mitherin

Kecks

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Post by welsbyswife » Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:48 pm

are you lakin

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Post by bobinho » Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:58 pm

Fettling.

Champion.

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Re: Lancs/Yorks old sayings

Post by gawthorpe_view » Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:03 pm

Sneck Lifter

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Post by MACCA » Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:04 pm

Choddy

E's a gate

Put big light on.

Through't ginnel

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Post by conyoviejo » Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:04 pm

Fair to Middlin

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Post by piston broke » Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:17 pm

Q. Weer thi gannin fert 'olidays
A. Kerbstone Edge

That's nowhere for those South of Manchester.

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Post by ElectroClaret » Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:21 pm

Thar as awkward as Dicks hatband.

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Post by Dazzler » Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:32 pm

Gerrin t'em yer f****** puff.

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Post by jetblackcat » Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:34 pm

Tha mun guh wi'out
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Post by BigF » Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:58 pm

Oin (sp) - as in the oin someone, to annoy them.

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Re: Lancs/Yorks old sayings

Post by JohnMac » Tue Oct 10, 2017 7:00 pm

Someone posted a list of old Barnsley speak on fb today.
It was remarkable how similar it was to a lot of old Burnley speak.

They used 'feighting' for example but I haven't heard many other Yorkshire folk use it.

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Re: Lancs/Yorks old sayings

Post by Bin Ont Turf » Tue Oct 10, 2017 7:08 pm

I used to have a tea towel (I know I'm proper rock and roll me) which said on it.........

If thi from Lancashire, Yorkshire folk are t' enemy
If thi from Yorkshire, Lancashire folk are t' enemy
If thi from anyweer else it's none o' tha business
So theer

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Post by holdyourfire » Tue Oct 10, 2017 7:24 pm

There's nowt as queer as folk

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Post by 2 Bee Holed » Tue Oct 10, 2017 7:47 pm

some gradely ones ere alreet.

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Post by elwaclaret » Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:48 pm

I wer lakin wi mi mates, some owd peeler was agate " get of wi the bother I sin ya up to no better than tha shud o been" "Begger off" I yelled "stop oinin us its nowt but wind a wather" Yon copper says "Time you wer oer't whitewash wi wood in thole fort neet.
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Post by Jimmymaccer » Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:54 pm

Buggerlugs!

A mate of mine at work got bollocked because another colleague complained he’d been disrespectful when he said it to a lad in the office....

But the person who complained is like Norris off Corrie, a right interfering *******!

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Post by john'sroseyspecs » Tue Oct 10, 2017 9:34 pm

Going to see Jack Moore's monkey. One of my gran's favourites

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Post by elwaclaret » Tue Oct 10, 2017 9:45 pm

I'll Go to foot ov our stairs
copperation pop
Uffin an puffin
ower Walter (or whoever)

Edit= bottom brackets and 2 for typo

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Post by elwaclaret » Tue Oct 10, 2017 9:51 pm

Jimmymaccer wrote:Buggerlugs!

A mate of mine at work got bollocked because another colleague complained he’d been disrespectful when he said it to a lad in the office....

But the person who complained is like Norris off Corrie, a right interfering *******!
Use it regular away, didn't even know it was a Lancashire saying. There again I use Oin pretty much daily too.

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Re: Lancs/Yorks old sayings

Post by conyoviejo » Tue Oct 10, 2017 9:51 pm

Al bet thee

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Post by jdrobbo » Tue Oct 10, 2017 9:52 pm

Was hoping to post on this thread about half an hour ago, but I've been putting sandwiches up for tomorrow.
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Post by bobinho » Tue Oct 10, 2017 9:56 pm

So, thas not from Lancasheer then jd?

If tha wer, thy lass'd be puttin thi bate up fo' thi.

Edit: or should that be "bait"?

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Post by starting_11 » Tue Oct 10, 2017 10:37 pm

The words "fish butty" don't mean anything in the rest of the country.

And even if you do get past the dialect and successfully ask for a piece of battered fish between 2 slices of bread, they'll look at you like you've just asked if you can **** their teenage daughters.

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Re: Lancs/Yorks old sayings

Post by Bin Ont Turf » Tue Oct 10, 2017 10:58 pm

My Grandmother used to say... It's like t' shed shuttin down.

This was used when all the grandchildren had left her house after a visit and it being quiet.

The shed being a weaving shed/mill.

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Post by pekinrobin » Wed Oct 11, 2017 5:31 am

stad owt t'eat ?

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Post by pekinrobin » Wed Oct 11, 2017 5:34 am

weir otta ? n wottupto ?

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Post by BFCmaj » Wed Oct 11, 2017 6:18 am

Tha sheps wooden (you're not very good at that).

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Post by ALP » Wed Oct 11, 2017 8:02 am

Ows'ta bin
Na then
Sethy

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Post by elwaclaret » Wed Oct 11, 2017 9:19 am

BFCmaj wrote:Tha sheps wooden (you're not very good at that).
I remember it as shap eg. shap yersel - maybe a subtle but maybe the kind of difference the rest of the country would miss.

Daft Article, Yer puddled
Under't brush

Wats fer tea?
Three jumps at cu'board doer

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Post by Barry_Chuckle » Wed Oct 11, 2017 12:28 pm

He's a "Reyt Bobby Dazzler"

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Post by Hroogar » Wed Oct 11, 2017 12:46 pm

Off tu cod oil

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Post by HatfieldClaret » Wed Oct 11, 2017 5:24 pm

Who would 'av thunk it.
Up wooden hill - get to bed
Cloth ears
Been to see a man about a dog - as in not telling where one's been

Buggerlugs was used everyday in our house, but without the accent.

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Post by Healeywoodclaret » Wed Oct 11, 2017 5:53 pm

jdrobbo wrote:Was hoping to post on this thread about half an hour ago, but I've been putting sandwiches up for tomorrow.
You bin purrin yer bait up?

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Post by happyclaret17 » Wed Oct 11, 2017 5:56 pm

where theres muck theres brass.

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Post by conyoviejo » Wed Oct 11, 2017 5:58 pm

Gerrum onside ref

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Post by LordBob » Wed Oct 11, 2017 6:04 pm

I remember my grandad telling me about the Yorkshire 3 wise monkeys, ' ear all see all say nowt, eat all sup all pay nowt and if ever you do owt for nowt be sure tha does it for thi sen'

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Post by DHClaret » Wed Oct 11, 2017 6:29 pm

Who was ‘Soft Mick’ and how comes he had so much of literally everything!

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Post by conyoviejo » Wed Oct 11, 2017 7:59 pm

DHClaret wrote:Who was ‘Soft Mick’ and how comes he had so much of literally everything!

Could be this or maybe not..lol

The phrase to have more <something> than Soft Mick means to possess an extravagant quantity of that thing. This phrase may originally have referred to an Irish shoe peddler working around Accrington, East Lancashire, in the early 1900s, from the phrase "More shoes than Soft Mick

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Re: Lancs/Yorks old sayings

Post by Funkydrummer » Wed Oct 11, 2017 9:19 pm

Thuz nowt ner queerer than folk,thuz only me and thee that's reet, and even thars a bit queer at times.

That's an old 'un from my dear grandma, god rest her soul.

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Post by levraiclaret » Wed Oct 11, 2017 9:27 pm

Nuther bostin slyce uh Turf Moor ont Clearts Playuh.

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Post by Dark Cloud » Wed Oct 11, 2017 10:08 pm

I'm sure I saw something on here a good while back regarding the ubiquitous "Soft Mick". It said he was actually a travelling "tinker" who sold absolutely anything an everything from his caravan around East Lancashire and that's where the phrase originated.

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Post by 4:20 » Wed Oct 11, 2017 10:30 pm

Blinkin' eck its crackin't flags out

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Post by piston broke » Thu Oct 12, 2017 12:05 am

john'sroseyspecs wrote:Going to see Jack Moore's monkey. One of my gran's favourites
Tha muss explain thisen! Sgon reyt oer mi noggin.

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Post by California Colner » Thu Oct 12, 2017 2:10 am

Ow ta fettling :lol:

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Post by CHEWBACCA » Thu Oct 12, 2017 7:24 am

Ear all, see all, say nowt;
Eyt all, sup all, pay nowt;
And if ivver tha does owt fer nowt –
Allus do it fer thissen.
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Post by HiroshimaClaret » Thu Oct 12, 2017 7:33 am

You great eppeth!

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Post by Bullabill » Thu Oct 12, 2017 7:56 am

piston broke » Thu Oct 12, 2017 10:05 am

john'sroseyspecs wrote:
Going to see Jack Moore's monkey. One of my gran's favourites


"Tha muss explain thisen! Sgon reyt oer mi noggin."


Well I'll be blowed! Jack Moore's monkey, the great Easter treat. So long ago but never, ever forgotten.

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Post by RingoMcCartney » Thu Oct 12, 2017 10:08 am

Big do's n little do's.

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Post by RingoMcCartney » Thu Oct 12, 2017 10:09 am

We sat on a form having a camp.

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