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Old 12-05-2020, 08:26   #720
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: Old local expressions

I know of all those phrases......and a apron was a 'brat'......unless it was frill, then it was a pinny.
My grandparents had very well developed lancashire dialects.....it was like listening to another language to the uninitiated, but it was also rib ticklingly funny.

They used to say of someone who was having a shot gun wedding.....he'd had a bite o th'apple before he'd bowt (bought) the tree'......or he'd been playing hide the sausage.
I was not supposed to know what these things meant, but.....I did.
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