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How lanky are you
Try this little test people, see if you are really a down to earth lancashire person.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/competitions/lanky/ |
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Thats too easy janet 10/10 for me
so owdoo sethie later |
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8/10 Didn't know the doorstop one or the powfagged one
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Only 7/10 for me:rolleyes: ...but don't forget I am still a foreigner (almost a year now in sunny Accy:p )
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hey busman i came from preston 16 years ago and still an outsider at times
time will tell hehe |
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Your Final Score: 10 out of 10
You might as well get a whippet and a flat cap and complain about your gout. me whippets got gout after it chewed me flat 'at does that count? |
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but lived or this end fer 40yrs :wave8: |
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I'm disputing the doorstop one.:D To me a doorstop is that thing at the back of the door that stops it banging the wall! The other thing I call a doorstep.
I'm not over keen on their definition of moither either because it's not quite what they say it is, because that can be done in ways other than moithering. |
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Your Final Score: 10 out of 10
You might as well get a whippet and a flat cap and complain about your gout. Powfagged was a bit touch and go ;) And I do not want a whippet they shiver too much :) |
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It were 10 out a ten fer me to.
But willow's correct it should b a doorstep not a doorstop. I would love a whippet or Greyhound. Bi foor Mick met me he didnt know wot a maiden or a pon were. He lived int posh part an were a spoilet brat. The spud pie was called a prata pie when I was growin up. |
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We had praties Anne. :) I think they were an Irish influence. Did he know what you meant if you asked him to "utch up chuck" ?
I still have to translate for Busman sometimes but it works the other way round too when we go "dahn sahth" |
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there was dockers butts as well they were very thick slices of bread, mostly with jam on. i got 10/10 too
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Decided to have a sken at the quiz and got 10/10. I'm powfagged now.:D
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10 /10 for me too; I put it down my Grandma Dora who sang lullabies to me in Lanky twang!
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An easy 10/10 for me. I put that down to me being a mongrel hybrid. Mutha was from Blackburn & Fatha was from Hapton, so I got a broad education regarding the Lanky twang.
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Aye, 10/10 here too. But I disagree with you Willow, it is a Doorstop.
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No..... it is definitely a DOORSTEP, but I got it right.....10 out of 10......I put it down to my age......lots of folk talked broad lanky when I was growing up.
It was an easy quiz. |
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I also think it was doorstop...but I grew up in manchester..;)
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We also called very thick butties 'a sore hand' but don't ask me why because I haven't the foggiest.
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OK here's one
Oven Bottom, Tea Cake, Muffin, Barm Cake. Depends wer tha hails fra :confused: or a bag o troden ons :confused: |
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And when are your chippies going to start selling Savoloys!!:( |
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'tint int tin
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If 'ti'nt int' tin wur issit?
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Regarding a previous post by "Moi" Is there ANYWHERE in Lancs that sells savaloys??
Willow is so intrigued (she tried one and hated it) she has suggested that next time we travel south, we call at every (almost) chip shop to find the most northerly one that sells them:rolleyes: |
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I used to be a "ketchup" man;)
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What do you mean "used to be" ????
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I am pleased to be able to announce that I too qualify for the flat cap, whippet and gout. That was a bit too easy really though.
I had always been under the impression that thick sandwiches were called doorstops precisley because they were thick enough to put in front of an open door to stop it closing. When I was younger, I had to suffer one of these made with Lancahire cheese every afternoon on my return home from school. It was like trying to eat a slice of mattress, they took ages to eat! Although I am something of a cheeseaholic and will try anything, the more obscure and "ripe" the better, I cannot now look at Lancashire cheese without feeling sick. |
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Well I got 9/10. Never heard of a thick sandwich being called a doorstop/step.
Probably 'cos I never had a thick one.:o Sken didn't mean 'look' to me. Skenning was when one deliberately crossed ones eyes as in cross-eyed and grandma would yell at us telling us not to sken or we would stay like that:D |
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i thought it was meant to be t****y not lanky...?
ime not that old but ive worked with many older folk who always refered to it as talking t**** and no the T is not a typo lol edit: it seems the word i meant triggers the anti swear thing lol i meant T W A N K Y and T W A N K where the stars *** are |
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9/10 for me
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Wonder how we would get on with a scouse quiz ;)
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have friends that moved down here from Glasgow 30 years ago, an I still can't understand them. :eek: |
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Is that when you've been twangoed?
Sorry, that's a terrible pun, but another one I wasn't able to resist! |
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well i only got 8/10 but then im only 27. Its like a whole new language.
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another one for you 'shurrup or I'll skutch thi dinner up'
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slopstone, ladin' tin, donkey stone, chunnerin, I'll think of some more in a bit
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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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Do other people "side the table" after they've eaten a meal? That was one which puzzled Busman.
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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
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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!
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No wonder Grandma was thin... she worked in the weaving mill too!
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Monday wash days, meant a sarny lunch, cold meat butties left over from sunday.............................happy memories :bleedht: :bleedht: :bleedht: |
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Oh yes......I remember it too.....everything steamy and smelling of green soap.
Takes you back eh? and like I said I'm only 17! |
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Here's a few words I remember. Mank. Skrikin. Lakin. spell. pill. slutch. joabin.(joabin thi socks) fourpeny one. lug.
Trouble is that when I left Accy 40 odd years ago and arrived in Melbourne I had to lose all my dialect and slang in order for the aussies to understand me. At the mo I speak with with what can only be described at best as a mongrel accent. Although I can still speak Accy which is as pure and unadulterated as it was 40 years ago. I have noticed that in Accy the dialect has somewhat changed over time and lost alot of slang and the more obscure dialect. Thankfully, there are many people who are trying to preserve it. To me it is a beautiful language all on its own, and I'll never forget it. |
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Nah then sithi. Tha's doin a'reet.
What does "joabin thi socks" Mean? The only pill I know of is a tablet. Is that slutch as in muck or something else? |
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Skrikin./screaming Lakin./ playing pill./ ball Think thats what they mean, don't know bout the others :confused: |
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lug i think is your ear
its still that today to some of us |
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As in "Pin back thi lug 'oiles!"
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Lugs are ears...... but luggs are knots in your hair. Like when you get up in a morning and your hair is luggy(sometimes said as loggy).
If Grandad had been out and had a few he came home stotherin' drunk or oxo-ing......and the cure next morning was a Yorkshire oyster(an egg) taken raw with a shake of alicker(vinegar). |
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9 out of 10 got number 10 wrong....
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ok i got a whopping 10/10 not to put shame on the quiz or anything but im actually a yorkshireman born and bred and i still work ova yonder hills :P
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Well done Poodle...... I think you probanly qualify to be an honorary lancastrian now(ducks to avoid the missile....wheeeeeeeeee!)
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Yeah but if he got full marks in the quiz there must be some in him some lancashire in him somewhere....... maybe his dad had a bike! lol
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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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"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.
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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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9/10 didnt realise doorstop was a butty and that fettle one was a guess ive heard people say how you fettling before but it didnt mean in the way that question asked
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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. |
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