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Glad I didn't see you in the height of Summer, I'm allergic to talc:D

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So am I when it's all over our bathroom floor and I have to clean it up.

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You know I'm an old-fashioned girl -this is what I use...

Linea Talco - Borotalco

Couldn't live without it in the summer especially.:D

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Not sure about Lanky, but I remember me Mam using it when we were young urchins. :D

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It's quite hard to find decent talc over here now, everyone goes in for body sprays but I prefer powder - except on the floor as I said before - and R is worse than me for throwing his baby powder about!

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Think Daves right Di, I stayed in London fer awhile in 60s n heard it used down yon also.

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Heard one on telly last night Mither, as in moaning and mithering

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Is that similar to Moither?

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When we were little and it was bath-time we used to get called "mucky pups" is that Lanky?

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It's the same, as is moider, just different spelling.

Think mucky pups is widespread. Just add the accent and anything can sound Lanky!

As for chucky eggs - general countrywide baby talk I would say. Also an endearment along the lines of mon petit chou - my little chucky egg, not cabbage!

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The bloke on telly didn't pronounce it like that Di

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mither - Wiktionary

According to this mither and moither mean the same though moither is down as Yorkshire, and moider means somethng sightly different. It was always mither in our house.

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Apologies, if already mentiioned.

'Camp' - chat/informal talk.

Overheard yesterday.

'They were all camping ten to the dozen, I couldn't hear myself think.'

It is only used for informal chatting.

You would have 'a good camp', with an old friend you hadn't seen in a long while.

You wouldn't do it in a formal interview.

Well not if you wanted the job.

:D

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Used in our family to refer to the sort of chat you had with someone if you bumped into them in the street - "they were camping in the middle of the pavement, you couldn't get past".

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Rack o theye twist o gob instead of using a spirit level