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slopstone, ladin' tin, donkey stone, chunnerin, I'll think of some more in a bit

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Margaret, whats "skutch"...........is it clear up thi dinner
thought I'd heard most of the twang, but thars cum wiv a new un there:confused:

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No it is a punch in the bread basket that would make you sick your dinner up..... it was a taunt used by kids many, many moons ago.......they used to shout things like that, but I never actually saw anyone do it. I should add that I am only 17 really......i just have 40 years experience!

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When I was little..... if we were caught listening to adult conversation and asked who they were talking about, my mother used to say 'im int neet wi't rag arm'.... to translate this it meant 'him in the night with the rag arm'.....it used to fair frighten me to death......another one was, if we asked what something was for, Mother used to say 'layo'ers for meddlers and crutches for lame ducks' and I haven't a clue what this meant other than stop asking daft questions.

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The parish lantern was the moon, and the parish candles were the stars. Oh don't get me going.

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Oh gosh, How absolutely riveting people......;) ..........

On a more serious note, since moving up north, I have noticed that the "slang" differs from town to town even though they may be only a few miles apart. I am slowly beginning to recognise "Burnley" bods from "Accyites" by the way they speak! Down south, there are many dialects but there is a gradual change as you travel 30/50/80 miles, but Oop 'ere, you only have to visit a neighbouring town to hear a completely new language! No wonder that there is so much controversy over the meanings of words on the web site introduced by Janet............:D

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8/10, not THAT bad! :eek:

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you can tell the difference between folk from Burnley, Blackburn, Darwen and Bolton.....as you say Busman they all have a slightly different accent.

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Yeah...... a moggy here is a cat, but in Manchester it is a mouse.
We all speak English though don't we?????????

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don't start me on that, my fella is from manchester and he calls a t cake a barm! oh the arguments!!!

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Gemz1 your man is right !!!!!!!

A TEACAKE is a barmcake with currants in it

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not again, please don't!!!!!!!!

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A'll ha ta go dollystone step after that

:confused: :confused:

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Park..... shouldn't that be donkeystone????? there was Reckitts Dolly Blue.......good for wasp stings as well as washing.......the dollytub and posser were dragged out every Monday morning and the copper was lit to boil the water, the washboard and hard green soap(bought off a block from the Co-op) and then the clothes mangled to remove excess water...... then if it was wet the clothes were hung on the rack over the kitchen fire......Tuesday was ironing day!