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Originally Posted by cashman
Always remember family n many people using the word "Laking" meaning the lazy beggers off work again, those who regularly had Mondays off me grandad always said hes having a "Miners Monday" worked wi a guy in 80s who always was laking on monday, he used to roll in tuesday morning n all the lads would sing a well known record of the time the Bangles - Manic Monday, though Miners was sung in place of Manic.  |
I think the proper Accy word for having a day off work is "playing" -it features in my great.grandads journals of his accounts while working as a dataling opening up new coal faces at hapton mine....early 1900's.