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10/10 for me and it is doorstop for a sandwich;)

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*beats your lancashire hot pot and hollands pies around with his yorkshire puddun*

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Sorry owd fettlers. Just caught up. Joabin thi socks.... When you are idly standing there and you are constantly lifting your foot in and out of your shoe or whatever. Grandma sez it weers em oawt. Thi socks I mean. Slutch is mud or wet muck. Lug ,... to carry or cart about. Ears as well. Lakin in the sense. "Is owd fred still lakin about. (knockin about. Still alive) Spell... splinter in hand

Pill... daft ******. Other meanings as already mentioned. :) It also eventually got extended with.. ock on the end.

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8/10 Got the doorstop one wrong and the powfagged ;)

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10/10 for me i thought it was easy except the doorstop one which i guessed

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Terry......my gran used to use a similar phrase but instead of joabin'...... it was chovin' and it came from the weaving mill.....if the warp was weaving badly and sort of wearing away..... it was called chovin' and it commonly occured at the selvedge.

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I suppose there were lots of little differences like that......depending which locality you came from.

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"Pill... daft ******" /that was always a ball
"Is owd fred still lakin about. (knockin about. Still alive)" /are you lakin today/are you playing today.
Like you say, it depends where you come from, which area of Lancashire, the twang and meaning differs between blackburn and burnley, or accy.

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Park.... with reference to your question about Yorkshire Pudding......it was always served separately at our house and the kids were told that whoever ate the most yorkshire pudding would get the most meat...... but by the time you had a plateful of yorkie pud with gravy you hadn't much room for meat.
We also had it with sultanas in and sprinkled with sugar..... but that was a rare treat.

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did this one on burnley web ,i got sken right but it said it was wrong.,,,grrr in burnley if you ask for a teacake you get a plain one ,if you ask for a teacake in blackpool you get a currant one , plain teacakes are balmcakes,there.....

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I only just saw this thread. Had a go and I got 10/10. Not bad when I left Lancashire 43 years ago. Just goes to show you can take the woman out of Lancashire but you can't take Lancashire out of the woman.

Re: Yorkshire Pudding. The first time I visited my future in-laws in Bradford I was a bit puzzled when Yorkshire Pudding was served, with just onion gravy, as the first course for Sunday lunch. My mother in law said it was a Yorkshire tradition - they fill you up with it then you won't want so much meat. She used to make it in a huge square tin and always saved a piece which my father in law would eat cold, spread with jam, for supper. Ugh!

Grannyclaret, you're spot-on about teacakes. Here we call them balmcakes - a teacake has fruit in - but in Durham they call them stotty cakes if they're large or baps if they're smaller but north of Newcastle they are all baps no matter what size. Pay attention I will be asking questions later. In North Yorkshire they are flourcakes and a teacake has fruit in but is spicey too. My aunt, who was a baker (in West End), made teacakes but called them muffins but in the Midlands it's ovenbottom cakes because a muffin is more like a crumpet but a crumpet is a pikelet. :confused:

One thing I found odd when I first moved here. I would say someone was "bonny", meaning good-looking, and get funny looks. It took a while before I realised that around the Warrington area "bonny" means fat. I haven't come across that anywhere else in England.

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10/10 but didn't realise moither was lancashire, got it correct though.

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When I first met Mick, he called his Mam's maiden a cloth's horse and didn't know a pan was a pon.
I thought he was a posh spoiled brat when I first met him.
He thowet I warr es common as muck tha knows.
Nah he's as bad as I am.
A con remember evin a bath in fronta fire on a frida neet.
Mi nan ad a dolly tub out back wi a posser an a mangle.