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You've been watching too much Father Ted there Jaysay!

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agate busy, on the go (Lancashire)

That always makes me laugh, though I think they have the meaning wrong, or I've never heard it used in that context.

I've always understood it to be the past tense of say, as in 'She were agate to me'.

:confused:

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Quite right,She's agate,He's agate.Means she/he is saying.:)

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To be totally honest Churchman I have never seen one episode of Father Ted, not my cup of tea

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How do you know if you've not seen it?:D

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When I was younger and used 'agate' I always thought it meant 'told' i.e. he were agate - he told me.

When I used 'agate' my mum, in her efforts to stamp it out of me, always said, 'five bar or wrought iron'. It was particularly annoying so I did stop using it many years ago.

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Smart arse:D I watched ten minutes early on:D

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That's how I know the term too.

I've never heard it to mean 'busy/on the go'.

I think they're wrong with that one.

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Yes that is how I understood it to be used as well:)

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You can say, "I was going", meaning, "I was saying". So the dialect, "I was agate", isn't far off if "agate" means "going" and "going" means "saying". Right?

Are you following this? I shall be asking questions later. :confused:

When I was little there was one game we played, and I can't for the life of me remember what it was, that started with a rhyme. The only bit of this rhyme I remember is the last line, just as the kids run off to actually play the game, and it was, "If you're ready, get agate". It sticks in my mind particularly as it took me a long time to work out what "get agate" meant but it meant "get going". :rolleyes:

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agate is an accrington thing, id never heard it till i moved over here and i thought it was "a-get"

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AGATE - Strange Wigan verb vaguely meaning "to be doing/to start", as in, ArtAGATEagen thee? or therAGATEagen up yonder

Looks like it could be a Wigan word too. The above comes from the WiganWorld website. Nuff said! :D

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Wiganers usually have too much pie in their mouths to be heard clearly enough to know what they're saying.:D

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The thing that used to really bug me when I lived in Cornwall was the way they substituted 'have' with 'of'. You know like 'she would of'. My daughter does it too............grrrrrr

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me grandad always said whats he "Agate" so i always took it to mean= on about.:confused: