Dialect phrases to describe Hyndburn (Greater Accrington)
 

Interesting link from the BBC news website , seems the "arts" folks of Nelson have come up with a good/interesting concept to preserve their heritage for future generations , (no flash mobs or crotcheted willy warmers)

BBC News - Old Pendle dialect phrases to be put on cube artworks

so what do the users of Accy web think would be the best 'dialect' sayings to be carved in stone to describe Hyndburn/Greater Accrington for future generations ...

answers in local dialect only ;)

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thowd ole ov calcutta

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'Tha's not the fowest man ave ever seen...but thee favvers him'.

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This could be attached to a photograph of a high profile local politican.

If we had a particularly fow one.

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Fowe folk for luck

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Darnt go owt bate thi ganzi, thall ketch thi deeth.

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Wer sti bin?

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Just a little wonder, remember coming home late one night when I was only 17 well sozzled, the old dear was stood at the door house coat on hairnet and curlers head nodding like a pigeon. Drunk agean John, Ya mum so am I, that was one of the few times the old lady smacked me round the ear:D

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If tha'd any mor mewth, that's ha no face to wesh.
Her as too much o what cat licks its' bum wi.
Choose thi winder(said before an altercation/fight).

I will go away now and scratch the wood to think of some more.

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shoite ole

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Put thwood in thole.

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Mi belly thinks mi throats bin cut.

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aye fer fecks sake

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im a gate or im a get..

it always makes me laugh when people say that refering to somthing they are telling someone they said to somone else

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mi back and me belly's floppin together(I'm hungry)

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more workin in a Beechams pill.
as lazy as ludlums dog, who leaned against t'wall t' bark.
skrike more......tha'll pee less.
he hez a face like a melted welly.
Tha looks like tha fell off a flittin(you are a bit unkempt)
To someone picking their nose 'doant tek them pictures deawn, we'r not flittin'

I'm sure I know many more but I can't bring them to mind right now.

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Tha's no oyl in thi lamp ... to intelligently challenged person.

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She's a face like 5 mile o bad ruoad.

Lucky sod, fell in a muck cart an came out wi a gold ring.

Let thi food stop thi noise.
(used for people talking while eating)

Talks all day an says nowt.

If tha goes out like thad thall ged whitchard

Mutton dressed as lamb.

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He's abaht as bright as a TOC H lamp.

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I'm sure reading this thread will be like learning a new language to some 'non natives',


"skrike more......tha'll pee less." :rofl38: :rofl38: :rofl38:

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Can't let it go without ... 'Trouble at t'mill.'

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Up & deawn like a P1ssing cricket.
Ouze a face on er like a smacked arse.
Stood there like a clock 1/2 struck
We don't live in a tent, shut door.
I'm fair clemmed, (I'm hungry)

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Tha' meks a better doower than a winda' .. obstructing someone's vision.

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Tha can caw me what that wants, but don't caw me late fer mi dinner.
(translation - you can call me what you want, but don't call me late for my dinner)
When we used to ask what was for dinner, Ma used to tell us it's duck and roll....duck under't table and roll or tha'll bang thi ead.....another one was....to the same question...a run and jump up the buttery (pantry) door....which meant we were getting nowt.

When our hair was a mess, my gran would say she had seen better hair on bacon(I never understood this...I never saw hair on bacon).

and to those of us who always wanted our own way,that was ME......she would say 'She wants all er own rooad and a bag to purrit in.

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Tha might be called Pilkington, but you're no pane of glass!

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Weaving bout weft.

Th'orse is clamming while grass is growing.

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I've a mauth like a pram bottom P S and biscuits (work that out for yourselves):D

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I'm guin bi mi sen

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I can do owt, bar wheel missel in a barrow.
(I'm quite talented and I know it)
referring to someone who thinks themself to be smart(as above) it would be said...'he has ten bob on hissel'(he has ten bob on himself)
A women with a lot of make up on......'bad soil teks a lot of top dressing'....top dressing being manure.

said before a fight......'dusta want some clog toe pie'

Going back to the old days, my grandad was a most mild mannered man...except when he had had a skinful....and back then he could be inebriated off just a couple of pints(was beer stronger back then?)........he used to drink in the Woodnook.....my gran would go down there and shout through the door 'George...hasta fowt yet? Get fowt, your dinners ready'

I don't really remember this but my auntie Phyllis(his daughter) used to tell me about it.
He mellowed with age and took to singing(badly) instead of fighting.

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I can remember being whacked on the head by a nun at Paddock House when she overheard me telling some friends what my Gran had said the day before,
"They fun im deid yon petty doer...." Do I need to translate??

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Not for me, you don't!

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Some good ones.

1 Initot
2 Summatsupoereer
3 Gerritetten
4 Wotsupwithee
5 Wotsamarrerweim
6 Iyantgorrit
7 Imgerrin Ahtonnit
8 Azeeginityer
9 Ontopothill
10 Eezgooinooam
11 Astagorritreit
12 Astergorritwithee
13 Purriddineer
14 Iyant eardonnit
15 Thalafta gerramewun
16 Eesezitint Burraberitis
17 Lerrugerrus anwesht
18 Wivgorragerrus imbux
19 Summonum alatergerroff
20 Thammungeritlernt
21 Abberitinters
22 Eeznowt burrababbi
23 Weerze gaffer

I won't put the translations on for a day or so.

:D

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I won't spoil it by translating any of these......I think I know most of them.....yes, I do.

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So do I.
Wotstigetentheer
What have you got there.
Thasbinangonundunit.
You have been and gone and done it.

Retlaw

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Thad lot ul baffle yon Southern Jessies.
23a yongaffersgonwhum

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"it's no good standing there like cheese at fourpence" My grandma used to say it, not a clue where it came from.....:confused:

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My mum still says it, if I'm acting a bit gormless.

:D

You'd think the price should have gone up, as inflation rose.

Today cheese at fourpence wouldn't be there very long.

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I must be getting old Two pennoth of dripping in my day

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My gran used to say 'get back in't cheese ther' a maggot short!'
or another favourite was 'why are you stonnin theer like one o clock hafe struck'.....and 'if tha gooin t' do nowt, go an do it somwheer else'

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She probably thought you were talking Italian in a French lesson Sue:D

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Tek no notice o' yon mon, he's a bigger liar than Tom Pepper.
You'll end up i' Dickies meadow if you believe a word o' what he says.

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For those not reet well up on their Lanky, here's the translations of the above phrases.

1 Isn't it hot
2 Something is wrong over here
3 Get it eaten
4 Is something the matter
5 Is something the matter with him
6 I have not got it
7 I am getting out of here
8 Has he given it to you
9 On the top of the hill
10 He is going home
11 Have you got it right
12 Have you got it with you
13 Put it in here
14 I have not heard of it
15 You will have to get them one
16 He says it is not, but I bet it is
17 Let us get our hands washed
18 We have got to get out hymn books
19 Some of them will have to get off
20 You must learnt it
21 Perhaps it is not hers
22 He's nothing but a baby
23 Where is the boss

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Accy - More pound shops than yon Soft Mick.

:D

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19 Summonum alatergerroff
That used to be the favorite term used by stroppy bus conducters, on bus coming home from work.

Retlaw

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High End Burn
Gateway to the North
See the lovely illuminations.
Red
Red and Amber
Green
Amber
And Back to Red

(With apologies to Peter Sellers R.I.P. and "Bal Ham")

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I need a translator/interpreter!:confused:

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Can one of the mods not help you out Romps:D

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Tha lives in Ossy untha dusnd understand Kings English, wurwurtibroutup.

Retlaw