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"Wurtigeddinyonfro"

A towd thi...Hoddlesdon University English Exam paper.... ave anuther forty of em' yet

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What's Hoddlesdon University when it's at home?

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Yeh been away too long susie, Dya not remember "One Step Beyond"?:D;)

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Artisureidsnodbashacademy.

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Can't be retlaw, The Jam Butty Estate never had one.:D

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I usd to get called Specky four eyes at junior school! (Not manure carrier though thankfully:D) had my revenge when many of those who taunted me ended up with specs at secondary school, by which time no-one noticed mine anymore:)

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Not those horrible wire glasses mobertol:eek:

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NHS Specials?

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Pink covered wire for a girl, and fake tortoise-shell if you were a boy....grim....and if you had a squint - or a lazy eye, one lens covered with Elastoplast or Zinc oxide tape.
Not a good look was it?

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Lads must have been posh down Clayton.

I remember girls wearing the pink ones, but I never saw tortoiseshell glasses.

The boys I knew wore similar ones to the girls, that were a transparent pale blue.

http://ilovenailpolish.com/Smileys/girly/glasses.gif

Glasses were also referred to as gigs, or bins,

Happily the pink for a girl, blues for a boy spectacles, seem to have been binned nowadays.

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I was in Accrington way back then G....and my brother thad the tortoise shell ones......mind you that would be when he was about 10 years old......he hated them and couldn't wait to get non NHS frames(which were paid for by our gran).

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Having worn them from the age of two - unfortunately -Yes! Had an elastic under my hair to keep them on! :D

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That was me Margaret (I had and still have a "Lazy eye")-sounds better than a squint! In our class it was me and Michael Quirk who had the elastoplast treatment, he was bullied really badly.

I also remember having a sort of red see through lens at one point. I was quite raffish of course -like a young Jack Sparrow (I had long hair and plaits back then). Only benefit was an afternoon out of school every so often for visits to the health center in Blackburn...

Once the treatment was over -by age 10 -the glasses had changed and were coloured plastic - very Edna Everidge. They never sat straight on my face as one lens was much heavier than the other. On all my school photos they were skewiff - didn't mind mum throwing them out on the tip to be honest.
I grew up thinking I was the ugly duckling - still haven't turned into a beautiful swan yet.:rolleyes::D

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Never heard of gigs or bins, some used to call them goggles - I distinctly remember one time "binning" my glasses when i was abut 8 or 9. I threw them down a drain at the side of the house and told mum I'd lost them:o

I have actually returned to pink glasses recently. :cool:

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I'm just glad I was blessed with good eyesight, Its still quite good at distance, just need glasses for reading small print, don't really need them for the computer but I wear them, no use over straining what I have now

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Gigs or bins i still hear used today, Though "Pans" seems to have died away, apart from in my vocabulary.:D

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'Bins' for glasses comes from the shortening of binoculars...can't help with the derivation of 'gigs' though.

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Pans comes from Frying Pans, meaning large lenses, Hence me mam was called Pan Eye.:D

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Well, I never! That is a good explanation Retlaw.

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You learn something new every day!

Have a bad knee at the moment - "gammy" would describe it!

Another rhyming adjective is "jammy" - if someone is a bit lucky. "Jammy devil" is one my Gran used a lot!:)

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Lucky Josser, was another one...though I am not entirely sure it is a local expression.

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I hate Sherlock Holmes films.....I only catch snippets when, himself is watching them and I walk through the living room to the kitchen...absolute dross.

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I've never heard it anywhere else - think it's very local.

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Only heard Lucky Josser or Lucky Joss around this neck o the woods.

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Now Now Margaret, you have to be very intelegent to fully understand the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle, my uncle Mycroft taught me all I know about solving mysteries. Except the mysteries of women, even God himself can't solve that one.

Retlaw.

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Retlaw, I am intelligent...intelligent enough to find the off button anyway.
If I had my way(which I don't - not often enough anyway) I would never watch these old films.

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Have we had 'collywobbles' ? Being nervous or upset stomach.

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I'll have you know I've watched two this week Margaret:rolleyes:

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Your enough to give any one the Collywobbles. :tongueout

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And you talk a load of codswallop ... :D:p

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Glad to see your back on from Kate and able to put Grumps in his place again:D:D

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I prefer to do the technicolor yawn.;)

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Just watch it slobber chops, ur I'll get my body guard to beat you up.:D:D

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I don't know...its whads at the top of the paper wot the sayings are writ on...LOL

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a. Thimamulkillthiifhoofindsuwt Your mam will kill you if who finds out

b. Thersnowtwossthanbadaleancheekiekids Theres nothing worse than bad ale and cheekie kids

c. Idisndisisid It isnt this is it It isn't his is it?

d. Owdustano How do you know

e. Astigeetacark Have you got a cork

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One or two more

f. Ismiatonreyt

g. Isthadthimam

h. Therssummatupowertheer

I. Gedidtetten

j. Ahveerdnowtyet

k. Estaweshedthieers

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Josser is an old Gypsy word.
I used to hear it around the traveling fair grounds quite a bit.

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Have you washed your ears? being the last one...won't go in the box for some reason.
Now......... can I be a translator?

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I thought it may be derived from Joss sticks......these are considered bringers of luck in the Chinese culture.

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Both right, according to this...

World Wide Words: Josser

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See Sue....I told you I had a headful of trivial rubbish:D

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Remind me not to take you on at Trivial pursuit:D

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Polari and or Palari....??
Wasn't that the very fay chatter spoken by Julian and Sandy on the old Kenneth Horn radio show?

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Quite right Joe...

Polari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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"Camp"
That was the word I should have used rather than "Fay"

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What a 'fey' day.

;)

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To me fey meant ugly:rolleyes:

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Fey = otherworldly, enchanted, magical, fairylike

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...as in Morgan Le Fay?

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Got it in one, Steve.

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Na if thar fey thar down right ugly:D

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No John....what you mean is fow.

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Think its a dialogue think between Ossy and Clayton Margaret, we always said fey when I was young, mind you that is quite a long time ago:rolleyes:

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Here t'was a "Gray" day - dear Mr. Grayson!:D

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Its the tha daft owd git, Its FOW, fur ugly, tha wants to get thi eayurs shringed, an lurn tu tawk reight.:tongueout

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Retlaw, I did try and tell him it was 'fow'........!
As in....'fow as a summons'

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Have we had 'mardy'?.......someone who is a wet nelly, a softie baby, a cry baby.

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You say FOW I say FEY, anyway which ever they both apply to thee:hesoff:

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Just thee wayt, my body guard ul fotch thi one intut fizog, thadl shut thi up.;);););););)

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Top of the class......you can be the milk monitor...LOL

Phil

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Sod of wallops a friend of mine:p:p:p:D

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"An' all"......meaning the equivalent of "too".

For example, Can I come with you an' all?

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Slutty = Dirty (no comments please):D

Been doing a bit of research about tripe and discovered that "Black tripe" which is the abomasum, one of the cows "stomachs" (get's easily dislocated in dairy cows after calving and will lead to death without an operation) was known locally as "Slut" from the Lanky word slutty meaning dirty...

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I wish you hadn't told me that!

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When in the Oaklea this aft,pre-match, Guess what was on telly,sodding olympics:( The word "Snerge" came into play, Me mate who is n accy lad understood immediately, but our southern softy mate was clueless.:D:D:D No education these folk.:rolleyes: Fer younger uns n outsiders the Snerge is= A bloke who smells ladies bicycle seats in hot weather.:D:D

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Lol, I've never heard that.

What does he smell in cold weather, damp muffs, and wet mittens?

:eek::D:eek:

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You've got a way with words cashy:D

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Welcome home Rindi we've missed ya:D:D

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This one came to me because it's so hot here - I remember people saying they were "sweating bobbers" -wonder what it actually means.

Though of course everyone knows that horses sweat, men perspire and we ladies, well we just glow;)

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Ya but you've got a problem when that glowing starts to smell:D

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Minimum two showers a day at the moment Jay -and I always dust lightly with talc!;):D

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Is saying "Chucky egg" a Lankyshire thing?

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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

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Ya Dave used that system on a regular basis, soon as I read that I had to try it just one more time to make sure I haven't lost the knack:D

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Its like riding a bike John you never lose it :D

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:eek::eek:I never had a bike Dave:D

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Oh ive had a few bikes........At least thats what me mates said at the time.:eek::D

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Liar liar bums on fire we have all had a few of them:D:D:smileysx::smileysx:

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Well they weren't night before:D:D:D

I remember the sayin don't they look a tackle also my gran used to say ill lather yer if tha doesn't behave.

Don't know Wots wrong wi mi I meant to say tackle in mi last post.

Tuckle

Remember when me n kids went to states n we said we were havin crack security guard in our hotel gave us a few funny looks until we told him havin crack in Lancashire meant we were havin a bit of fun.