Specialized local words
Sep 18th 2011, 7:07 am
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Re: Specialized local words
The Cornish call holiday makers "Emmets" which means ants and people who have moved there from other parts of the country "Grockles".
My OH calls the traditional round crumpets, pikelets. So when Tescos brought out the square pikelets I kept on buying the wrong thing.
In Dorset the Dorset cob is small and very, hard.
Love toasted tea cakes with butter or not toasted with Devon clotted cream.
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My OH calls the traditional round crumpets, pikelets. So when Tescos brought out the square pikelets I kept on buying the wrong thing.
In Dorset the Dorset cob is small and very, hard.
Love toasted tea cakes with butter or not toasted with Devon clotted cream.
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Sep 18th 2011, 7:25 am
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I'm not sure if this is 100% correct, but a person from Leicester told me once that the people of Skegness (that fine seaside resort on the East coast) referred to visitors from Leicester as "Issets". Why? Well, the first thing apparently a Leicester visitor would say in a shop or cafe was "How much isset?"
Sep 18th 2011, 7:39 am
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I always like the word "Bin Laden" for the 500 Euro note, used here in Spain. Maybe they should change the name now to "Gaddafi"? Of course thinking about it, there are other terms for cash that you soon need to know about. I still hear people talk about Pelas (slang for pesetas) when they mean cash or readies. Cinco duros (25 pesetas?) is another one, but I have no idea what it now means in Euro terms. Of course we have had plenty of currency expressions in the uk that can confuse the foreigners. Lend us 20 bob? Or: That'll cost you a monkey!
The monkey and ponies stump me so I stick with 20/50/10 quid.
Sep 18th 2011, 8:40 am
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Sep 18th 2011, 8:51 am
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Re: Specialized local words
Strange phraseology.
Did English people really ask to borrow 20 bob?
I for one dont think so.
Sep 18th 2011, 8:57 am
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Maybe 10 bob would be closer to the mark - people would surely have just said a pound or quid instead of 20 bob? There again I distinctly remember people talking about guineas instead of pounds (and I know they were not exactly the same - wasn't a guinea one pound and one shilling?), as if there were an aversion to talking about pounds. Why? I have no idea, and maybe I was just imagining it...
Sep 18th 2011, 8:59 am
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My mother, from Norwich, was horrified upon moving to the Midlands to hear a toilet referred to as 'the Bog'. 
My mother-in-law was Black Country good and proper. She was 'starved' when she was cold and 'clammed' when she was hungry. And something good was 'bostin'.
Round our way (on the north-west edge of the West Midlands conurbation), we have a phrase 'going round the Wrekin', which means taking the long way round to get to somewhere - the Wrekin being a large hill in nearby Shropshire.
And I now have a Twirly Pass - an OAP Bus Pass - called that because Pensioners get on the bus before 0930 and say 'Am I too early?' (say it quickly).
And I will always remeber a young friend of ours, a nice, friendly and polite Everton supporter, becoming a different person when referring to Liverpool FC and calling them Red Shites.
My mother-in-law was Black Country good and proper. She was 'starved' when she was cold and 'clammed' when she was hungry. And something good was 'bostin'.
Round our way (on the north-west edge of the West Midlands conurbation), we have a phrase 'going round the Wrekin', which means taking the long way round to get to somewhere - the Wrekin being a large hill in nearby Shropshire.
And I now have a Twirly Pass - an OAP Bus Pass - called that because Pensioners get on the bus before 0930 and say 'Am I too early?' (say it quickly).
And I will always remeber a young friend of ours, a nice, friendly and polite Everton supporter, becoming a different person when referring to Liverpool FC and calling them Red Shites.
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Sep 18th 2011, 9:05 am
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Re: Specialized local words
My mother, from Norwich, was horrified upon moving to the Midlands to hear a toilet referred to as 'the Bog'.
My mother-in-law was Black Country good and proper. She was 'starved' when she was cold and 'clammed' when she was hungry. And something good was 'bostin'.
Round our way (on the north-west edge of the West Midlands conurbation), we have a phrase 'going round the Wrekin', which means taking the long way round to get to somewhere - the Wrekin being a large hill in nearby Shropshire.
And I now have a Twirly Pass - an OAP Bus Pass - called that because Pensioners get on the bus before 0930 and say 'Am I too early?' (say it quickly).
And I will always remeber a young friend of ours, a nice, friendly and polite Everton supporter, becoming a different person when referring to Liverpool FC and calling them Red Shites.
My mother-in-law was Black Country good and proper. She was 'starved' when she was cold and 'clammed' when she was hungry. And something good was 'bostin'.
Round our way (on the north-west edge of the West Midlands conurbation), we have a phrase 'going round the Wrekin', which means taking the long way round to get to somewhere - the Wrekin being a large hill in nearby Shropshire.
And I now have a Twirly Pass - an OAP Bus Pass - called that because Pensioners get on the bus before 0930 and say 'Am I too early?' (say it quickly).
And I will always remeber a young friend of ours, a nice, friendly and polite Everton supporter, becoming a different person when referring to Liverpool FC and calling them Red Shites.
Sep 18th 2011, 9:06 am
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In the area of Lancashire I come from, teacakes have currants and the soft ones are barmcakes. I was once sitting in a bar near St Paul's Bay in Lindos, Rhodes when a woman at a nearby table asked the waiter "Hast tha got any barmcakes, lad?". Mystified look from waiter. "Tha knows, baaarmcakes" (louder). By this time we were in fits - I don't think she ever did get her barmcakes.
I read on the Manchester Evening News recently that a local IT firm had designed a new iPhone app to translate Wiganese into English after they took on a new employee and the staff couldn't understand a word he said. Example - in most areas of the North a brew would mean a cup of tea but where I come from, a brew is a hill.
I read on the Manchester Evening News recently that a local IT firm had designed a new iPhone app to translate Wiganese into English after they took on a new employee and the staff couldn't understand a word he said. Example - in most areas of the North a brew would mean a cup of tea but where I come from, a brew is a hill.
Sep 18th 2011, 9:11 am
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In the area of Lancashire I come from, teacakes have currants and the soft ones are barmcakes. I was once sitting in a bar near St Paul's Bay in Lindos, Rhodes when a woman at a nearby table asked the waiter "Hast tha got any barmcakes, lad?". Mystified look from waiter. "Tha knows, baaarmcakes" (louder). By this time we were in fits - I don't think she ever did get her barmcakes.
I read on the Manchester Evening News recently that a local IT firm had designed a new iPhone app to translate Wiganese into English after they took on a new employee and the staff couldn't understand a word he said. Example - in most areas of the North a brew would mean a cup of tea but where I come from, a brew is a hill.
I read on the Manchester Evening News recently that a local IT firm had designed a new iPhone app to translate Wiganese into English after they took on a new employee and the staff couldn't understand a word he said. Example - in most areas of the North a brew would mean a cup of tea but where I come from, a brew is a hill.
We have baircon and gray pays in the Black Country. (Bacon and Grey Peas). My m-i-l cooked them beautifully. Mouth watering. Not being Black Country myself (Midlands, but not Black Country), I don't have the touch.
http://www.blackcountrypubs.com/blac...y%20dishes.htm
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Sep 18th 2011, 9:16 am
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In Bristol/Somerset they say 'cuppy down' meaning crouch or squat.
"Ooer! I don't half need a wee!"
"Why don't you go and cuppy down behind that hedge".
"Ooer! I don't half need a wee!"
"Why don't you go and cuppy down behind that hedge".
Sep 18th 2011, 9:36 am
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In the area of Lancashire I come from, teacakes have currants and the soft ones are barmcakes. I was once sitting in a bar near St Paul's Bay in Lindos, Rhodes when a woman at a nearby table asked the waiter "Hast tha got any barmcakes, lad?". Mystified look from waiter. "Tha knows, baaarmcakes" (louder). By this time we were in fits - I don't think she ever did get her barmcakes.
I read on the Manchester Evening News recently that a local IT firm had designed a new iPhone app to translate Wiganese into English after they took on a new employee and the staff couldn't understand a word he said. Example - in most areas of the North a brew would mean a cup of tea but where I come from, a brew is a hill.
I read on the Manchester Evening News recently that a local IT firm had designed a new iPhone app to translate Wiganese into English after they took on a new employee and the staff couldn't understand a word he said. Example - in most areas of the North a brew would mean a cup of tea but where I come from, a brew is a hill.
Edit: Changed my mind. I will link to it
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Sep 18th 2011, 10:06 am
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Sep 18th 2011, 10:21 am
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Black Country Ten Commandments:
(from this site: http://theologicalscribbles.blogspot...k-country.html)
GOD’S BOSTIN’ RULES:
1. “Ar bin the Lord yaar God, yow cor ave ova daft un’s befower me”
2. “Dow put stuff befower God”
3. “Yow cor tek the naame o’ the Lord yaah God in vain”
4. “Git yaself to Sunday meeting ay it”
5. “Honor ya dad un ya mom”
6. “Yow cor kill con ya”
7. “Yow woe av it off with sumone elses missus/bloke”
8. “No pinchin’”
9. “Dow mek out ya muckers dun it”
10. “Dow get jealous of ya maates stuff”
(from this site: http://theologicalscribbles.blogspot...k-country.html)
GOD’S BOSTIN’ RULES:
1. “Ar bin the Lord yaar God, yow cor ave ova daft un’s befower me”
2. “Dow put stuff befower God”
3. “Yow cor tek the naame o’ the Lord yaah God in vain”
4. “Git yaself to Sunday meeting ay it”
5. “Honor ya dad un ya mom”
6. “Yow cor kill con ya”
7. “Yow woe av it off with sumone elses missus/bloke”
8. “No pinchin’”
9. “Dow mek out ya muckers dun it”
10. “Dow get jealous of ya maates stuff”