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Old 25-07-2009, 15:22   #9
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Re: It was your job to do, when you was a kid.

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Originally Posted by garinda View Post
Oddly I'd never heard of 'messages' until I lived in Glasgow.

'I'm away for my messages in a wee while.'

Messages?

Are you a spy?

Anyone else in the area, besides Cashy who called shopping 'messages'?

I still think it's more Scottish than Lancastrian.
twas a word i aquired in county dublin when i was a nipper. so i always assumed it was irish.
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