lost dialect - Page 6

steeljack · 23-11-2006, 02:08

I have never figured out what "lay-orrs to catch meddlers " are ?
can anybody help ........

cashman · 23-11-2006, 23:24

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Originally Posted by steeljack

I have never figured out what "lay-orrs to catch meddlers " are ?
can anybody help ........

me mam always used that expression, i wanna know also.

grannyclaret · 23-11-2006, 23:40

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Busman was taken by surprise the other day when someone asked him to give them 'a lift'. He thought they wanted to go somewhere in the car when actually they were asking for assisance with what they were doing. He'd never heard that before.

That was a very common saying in Burnley,they also said give us a hand ,which meant the same thing

WillowTheWhisp · 24-11-2006, 07:12

I don't know if this one has been mentioned before but yesterday I heard a mother say to her daughter "Come on! Shape yourself!"

What shape would she like her to be I wonder? (That used to be one of my mother's sayings and my usual response)

ANNE · 24-11-2006, 20:57

Eee mi mam used t say that has well.

cashman · 15-12-2006, 23:22

just remembered another lol me mam used to shake her fist and say i,ll JINK you,where the hell does that come from?

steeljack · 16-12-2006, 04:40

another is ......do lally , (stark raving mad) anyone any ideas where that comes from ? ...kind of sounds irish ?

WillowTheWhisp · 16-12-2006, 10:08

I think it somes form the military sanitorium in Deolali, India. The soldiers who were there waiting there for months to be shipped back home were so bored they went a bit ... well...... doolally.

West Ender · 16-12-2006, 22:38

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Originally Posted by steeljack

I have never figured out what "lay-orrs to catch meddlers " are ?
can anybody help ........

My dad used to say, when asked what he was doing, "Making layo'ers for meddlers". I once heard that layo'ers were really lay overs, or nets, put over medlars, the fruit that's like a pear, to stop birds pecking them.

Well, it's as good an explanation as any.

West Ender · 16-12-2006, 22:41

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I don't know if this one has been mentioned before but yesterday I heard a mother say to her daughter "Come on! Shape yourself!"

What shape would she like her to be I wonder? (That used to be one of my mother's sayings and my usual response)

My mum used to say that, too, but my Yorkshire in-laws always said, "Frame yourself".

steeljack · 16-12-2006, 22:49

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I think it somes form the military sanitorium in Deolali, India. The soldiers who were there waiting there for months to be shipped back home were so bored they went a bit ... well...... doolally.

a fascinating explanation, ........thanks Willow

WillowTheWhisp · 16-12-2006, 23:11

"somes form"

I must have been half asleep! That should have been "comes from"

steeljack · 16-12-2006, 23:25

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Originally Posted by West Ender

My dad used to say, when asked what he was doing, "Making layo'ers for meddlers". I once heard that layo'ers were really lay overs, or nets, put over medlars, the fruit that's like a pear, to stop birds pecking them.

Well, it's as good an explanation as any.

thanks for the answer West Ender, I had allways assumed the saying had come out of the cotton mills , something to do with overlookers and tacklers , I'd never heard of Medlars (fruit) before .

cashman · 29-12-2006, 00:42

where does this one originate? me dad used to say Behave or you,ll get BANJOED.

cashman · 13-01-2008, 22:30

paris n i were nattering last night n she said i'm Vexed at you, lol we both started laughing n said my mam used to say that to me, aint heard that for donkeys years, anyone still say/hear it.