lost dialect

[WillowTheWhisp]

You cleaned your coits?????

 

[grannyclaret]

we said donkey stone,,, but what had donkeys to do with the word?

 

[WillowTheWhisp]

I think it had something to do with an image of a donkey on the stone.

 

[cashman]

You must have been posh, everyone else called it 'donkey stoning'. you know me rindy i am posh ! but you are correct it was donkey stone- you have to make allowances for me age lol

 

[Alan Gilmartin]

Donkey jacket?. Flat cap, (a Ratter ). Coits, Roofs over outside tiolets and coal shed.

 

[pendy]

I remember being told to "get up them dancers" by my Uncle Jimmy - our's weren't golden dancers though, we must have been poor.

 

[lettie]

We were poor too and just had plain owd 'dancers'

My Nan used to come out with some crackers...

"You gormless b*gger, tha's getten an oil in tha frock."

"What's ee skennin at?"

 

[Margaret Pilkington]

in our house going to bed was 'going to blanket fair'......we emptied the tin bath with a ladin can.......and the water for the bath we had was heated up in't copper.....an t'copper were lit with a spill......and if you weren't careful lighting the copper you could blow your eyebrows off.

 

[jamesicus]

We used to call the Leeds & Liverpool canal the cut. Thus:

"Ast' bin swimmin int' cut?" (have you been swimming in the canal?).

BTW, we didn't buy any donkey stones at the shop that I can remember -- our Rag & Bone man used to give them out as payment for stuff given him.

James

 

[jamesicus]

We used to call an item of clothing (dress, shirt or jacket, etc.)"clout". Thus:

"ne'er cast a clout 'till May goes out"

 

[jamesicus]

And of course nobody liked to empty the "jerries" in the morning -- I used to hate that job!

 

[WillowTheWhisp]

My gran had "jerries". We had a "po" and a "guzunder" According to my Dad it was so named because "It guzunder the bed."

 

[grannyclaret]

we had a guzzunder too my hubby had a peeanna

 

[jamesicus]

Does anyone know why we called licorice "spanish"?

 

[jamesicus]

Wax "tapers" to light the way in the dark parts of the house at night.

A liitle off topic (sorry) -- does anyone remember when electrification of houses was completed in Lancashire? I remember that my grandma Baldwin still had gas lighting in 1936 -- you had to adjust the mantle with little chains to get the right amount of lighting.

 

[jamesicus]

Remember when holes in the heels of (mostly boy's) socks were called "spuds"?

"Tha's got a reet big spud in thi left sock, Jim"

 

[Ernie]

As an Accringtonian myself I am surprised that none of you have mentioned the word to describe anything good or well done, "Gradely"...

 

[Ernie]

BTW, we didn't buy any donkey stones at the shop that I can remember -- our Rag & Bone man used to give them out as payment for stuff given him.

James[/QUOTE]

On a serious note, the rag and bone man traded the donkey stone was my Father, he was the only R&B man who did that in Accy.

 

[WillowTheWhisp]

My Granny had gas mantles as late as 1960.

 

[cashman]

remember Gating up the fire.?