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ive really enjoyed reading all your posts. :) ive not heard of most of them only one i recall is apples and pears meaning stairs.

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remember when i came down on holiday to blackburn well [visit relatives] they used to call heavy metal people knebs .sumthin like that:)

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Someone will get vexed if you've been oining them :D

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ya got it in 1, but have ya heard/used the word lately, i aint heard it for years.:D

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one me grandad used to say when agreeing with someone was yahndeed, dont know if that will sound like it.:D

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Thal nairn flummax me - mi dad allus talked broad.

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well ya sure got him baffeled.;)

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Hi were a tackler 'n feckled in t' mill
Mi mum were a weaver and never got fetched up - good un
I used to go t' mill after scewel and kiss shuttles fer 'er.

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re kissing the shuttle , I've never been sure what that was , one explanation I was told was , a weaver did it when she was sucking the thread out from the bobbin through the hole in the shuttle before putting it into the loom , the other thing I heard was it was when the shuttle used to 'jump/fly' out of the loom and hit someone , considering they were metal tipped I supposed they could and did cause a few injuries , I think the saying goes back to the days of old Lancashire looms and phased out when Northrop and other automatic looms were introduced . :confused: :confused:

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Gee Steeley, you seem to know your shuttles & Looms. Your mum must have been a weaver.

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Does that mean 'Yes, Indeed'?

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I say the word vexed quite often. With a hubby and two young kids I am quite often vexed. :D

Seriously, I do use the word. I've been told I use quite a few old words / sayings for my age. I've been told so many times that I remind people of their Granny. :eek:

That's due to the words and phrases I use rather than the way I look......I hope.:D

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it does Lilly.:)

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Was talking to my mum about the bloke Cashy and myself were discussing in another thread who'd been banned from every pub on Blackburn Road. She said, "his mum was a nice woman, but when I used to see her round town with all her shopping, she always looked powfagged," Not heard that for years!