lost dialect

cashman · 07-09-2005, 14:11

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

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

grannyclaret · 07-09-2005, 14:48

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

pumee stoning the step was another.

slinky · 07-09-2005, 15:16

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

mez · 07-09-2005, 15:21

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

slinky · 07-09-2005, 15:25

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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Originally Posted by slinky

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.........................................

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

West Ender · 07-09-2005, 21:31

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

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

staggeringman · 08-09-2005, 00:58

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.

entwisi · 08-09-2005, 05:28

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

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!"