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cashman

07-09-2005 14:11

lost dialect

just thinking from another thread many words well used now gone from childhood, can you remember any? the first one that springs to my mind is SLOPSTONE, now called the sink.would be interested if you could name some! :engsmil:

WillowTheWhisp

07-09-2005 14:21

Re: lost dialect

Did anybody else brush their backyard with water and a "swilling brush"?

grannyclaret

07-09-2005 14:48

Re: lost dialect

yes willow ,and my grandad used to have a swill...meaning wash his face ,,,and then he would change his singlet,,,i.e vest.

cashman

07-09-2005 15:01

Re: lost dialect

pumee stoning the step was another.

slinky

07-09-2005 15:16

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My dad actually used this term to..................." just going for a quick swill" meaning a bath.

mez	07-09-2005 15:21

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beg to differ a "quick swill " was having a quick wash in our house.

slinky

07-09-2005 15:25

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I tell you something else that has gone missing in dialect............and it was used and still is used in my house, not hard to remember...............taught to me by my parents.

PLEASE AND THANKYOU.........................................

staggeringman

07-09-2005 15:52

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Quote:

Originally Posted by slinky

if you use them all through your life,you aint doing much wrong slinks.

West Ender

07-09-2005 21:31

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My dad had a few dialect expressions - though I think some of them were his own. One of them was "manking" and it meant - er - getting up to no good behind the bike-shed, so to speak.

My favourite, of his, I have never been sure whether he made it up. He would refer to anyone having a tantrum (or "losing their rag" or just acting a bit wild) as "Having a Tommy Berry Do". Has anyone else ever heard it and, if so, who the hell was Tommy Berry?

cashman

07-09-2005 22:59

Re: lost dialect

laking was one i dont hear now! = someone who hasnt gone to work and aint sick.

staggeringman

08-09-2005 00:58

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wat dosty mean we lost or dialict, tha doont hav ta saay it lik vat,yu spook as thee wer spook to simple.tha dosnt hav ta go ooer theer ta get at it jus get thee sel down yonder, an soort thee sel owt.if tha drippin get thee cloth ouer wash line and dry ti sel off.:D

entwisi

08-09-2005 05:28

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I always liked 'I'm going up t'brew to get m' hair powed'

Then there was 'witchered' meaning wet through.

WillowTheWhisp

08-09-2005 07:21

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I notice Staggers said "thi sel" - with my parents it always used to be "thi sen" as in "get thi sen up them steers!" (go to bed)

Which brings me to the interesting point that it is generally assumed that the Lancashire way of pronouncing "stairs" is "sturs" ( after all the pronunciation for "bear" and "fair" is "burr" and "furr" - "thurr wurr a burr at't furr") but it was always "steers" in our house and yet "stair" rhymes with "bear". Curious isn't it?

On a cold day I was usually advised to "put thi coit on, tha'll catch thi deeath!"

mez	08-09-2005 08:05

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i love our dialect ........it sets us apart , iv'e been to many places & my accent has got me into loads of conversations. lets not loose all of it .

garinda

08-09-2005 08:38

Re: lost dialect

Quote:

Originally Posted by cashman

pumee stoning the step was another.

You must have been posh, everyone else called it 'donkey stoning'.:D

Some people I remember used to do really intricate patterns with it, a bit like henna tattoos today.

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