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| amee | Very local dialect posted on: 12/22/2003 6:05:16 AM Are there any words used only in the very near vacinity of Heanor? I'm fairly sure that "jitty" - a walkway between house - is not know 10 miles away. "scrait" - to cry - could be another. Any more? |
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RMMee
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Very local dialect
replied on: 12/23/2003 8:28:01 AM Have you seen the "Ey up me duck" books? Although they are basically about Ilkeston dialect (and we know that there really was a difference), there are many similarities. The books are out of print, but are still easily obtainable and not very expensive either (I think the first is under £2 on Amazon). Much of our dialect has been lost, thanks to television and wider travel, and today's youngsters would find it impossible to understand someone talking Heanor of 80 years ago - I know that I found it difficult to understand my father-in-law who spoke broad Brinsley. To add to your list, what about "getting a clout." |
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RMMee
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Nesh
replied on: 2/1/2004 10:29:49 PM I'm not sure how localised it is, but what about the word NESH, an adjective, meaning very susceptible to the cold. I think it's pretty local, but how local I don't know. 
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suzard
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Nesh
replied on: 2/23/2004 1:39:49 PM I remember in History lesson in school being taught that Heanor was originally called Hainover - meaning "hill over"- and was then shortened to Hainoer -sothe local dialect of calling Heanor "Ainor" is closer to the original name than the more "refined" pronunciation of Heanor!! |
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RMMee
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Very local dialect
replied on: 4/28/2004 7:39:59 AM One we've been discussing at home this last week is "capping" (i.e. playing truant). It was certainly the term used at Heanor, and my kids know it at their school at Kirk Hallam. But my wife, who went to school at Kimberley, has never heard of it! That must make it fit into the definition of "very local." |
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bobbrown
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Very local dialect
replied on: 4/28/2004 11:43:26 PM In the 1950s, when I was a pupil at Heanor Grammar School, we had a new teacher, from Kent, I believe. He saw a girl crying at the back of the class and asked what was wrong. Her friend replied "Ow's alrait sir, ow's allus scraitin, ow's a mardy bogger!" He didn't understand a word - might as well have been in Holland! |
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RMMee
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Very local dialect
replied on: 5/2/2004 12:31:25 PM I don't know whether it's local or not, but it's not in the dictionary - the "gadder" - I remember my grandad had an excellent one, which I always viewed enviously - I suppose he used it for getting rid of birds in his garden. |
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Marylyn
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Very local dialect
replied on: 1/17/2005 2:09:28 PM I remember being bemused when I first left Heanor (I'm back now) and heard a cat refered to as a moggie when everyone knows that is a mouse! |
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suzard
Researcher |
Very local dialect
replied on: 1/17/2005 2:53:13 PM What about "shirt" meaning shout? and "shot" meaning shirt! Father looking for his shirt"Where's me shot?" Mother (not from our parts) "Shirt, dear, shirt" Father: "I am shirtin cos I canna find me shot" |
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Azzabuv
This message was updated on 1/31/2005 2:21:31 PM by Azzabuv |
Very local dialect
replied on: 1/18/2005 12:42:23 AM Does 'Watta' count as local only? Such as "Ae's fellin watta". SHADES of those L.S.Bs........ Interpretation = "Oh my gosh. He has actually fallen into the water". Or summut/summat like that anyway. Azzabuv. 
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Azzabuv
This message was updated on 1/31/2005 2:28:22 PM by Azzabuv |
Very local dialect
replied on: 1/31/2005 2:25:11 PM Tag - the school/after school running game, where one of the group chases after the others, trying to touch/tag them on the shoulder, with the laughing cry of - "Tag yer". Local? Azzabuv. |
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suzard
Researcher |
Very local dialect
replied on: 2/25/2005 5:46:54 PM We called "Tag" "Ticker"-at Langley Mill.Heard these local sayings the other day-hadn't heard them for years- "cod frozzen"-freezing cold "tab olin"-listening-especially when one shouldn't be. |
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Azzabuv
This message was updated on 2/25/2005 6:36:23 PM by Azzabuv |
Very local dialect
replied on: 2/25/2005 6:28:20 PM 'Ticker' was round Heanor too - like "Ticked yer", but strangely enough, mostly round the schoolyard/area. Did this come subconsciously because such areas were associated with being 'Ticked' off by the school teachers? Azzabuv. |
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bobbrown
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Very local dialect
replied on: 2/25/2005 11:46:30 PM Wasn't "ticker" a playground game? Involved chasing the other kids. They call it "it" where I now live in refined Hertfordshire. |
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Azzabuv
This message was updated on 2/26/2005 12:46:25 PM by Azzabuv |
Very local dialect
replied on: 2/26/2005 12:44:01 PM I know this saying is used Country-wide, but apparently with varying names added in. Round Heanor, i always heard it described, weather-wise, when the heavy rain clouds were roaming across the near area of sky, as - "It luks black o'er Bill's motha's". Was/IS this our own LOCAL description? Azzabuv. |
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suzard
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Very local dialect
replied on: 2/26/2005 2:34:21 PM I've never heard the mother of Willam mentioned other than Notts/Derbys border! What about "lookin a bit shitten" -looking pale/unwell. I once got into trouble in infants school for telling the teacher my aunt said I looked a bit shitten-came home heartbroken 'cos teacher had accused me of swearing-something I would never do in case my tongue went black and fell out! |
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