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Patrisia
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Very local dialect
replied on: 2/27/2005 1:27:10 PM Hi all, I had forgotten how many of these I still know! I must have got them from my mother and neither she nor I were born in these parts. So we must have got them from my Smalley born Grandmother Kate Carrington. I remember clout, mardy, nesh, tick, shitten, scrait and I still find myself using some. I remarked to someone the other day "It's a bit nesh today" to be looked at very strangely. Now I'm racking my brains for others. How about 'claggy' for dry or thick? Or did this come from my Yorkshire grandfather? |
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Azzabuv
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Very local dialect
replied on: 2/27/2005 1:55:00 PM Hi, Patrisia. I'm not certain, but i think 'Claggy', is Yorks. born and bred. I take this from my fairly regular visits to Yorks. over the years. From around Heanor, i think the expression was - "He/she, is a proper clogged-brained git". Could be wrong though? Azzabuv. |
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Bagpuss!!
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Very local dialect
replied on: 2/28/2005 8:31:44 PM A favourite story of mine, shortly after our move to Norfolk my daughters (also Derbyshire born) friend on the school bus one morning shreiked and exclaimed - "A've dropped me snap all ov'r floor an me cobs are all dotty" They must have wondered what foreign language she was using! |
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suzard
Researcher This message was updated on 11/18/2005 8:28:23 AM by RMMee |
Very local dialect
replied on: 3/1/2005 4:47:43 PM Another saying-don't know if it's Derbys or just our family-"I'd drop me chips for 'im"-meaning he's really good looking(from the days when it was considered "common" to be eating chips out of paper in the street.) Thinking of chips- a "mixed"-chips and peas-is not even understood in Nottingham! |
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suzard
Researcher This message was updated on 11/18/2005 8:30:25 AM by RMMee |
Very local dialect
replied on: 3/2/2005 6:07:42 PM Derbys dialect-man goes to vets in Heanor. "I've cum abart me cat" "Is it a Tom?" "No, I've brought 'im wi' me" "rec"-short for recreation ground seems to be a Derbys saying - elsewhere it's park/playground-in South Wales it's the "Welfare"-when I lived there someone asked me if I was taking the children to the Welfare-I answered "No, we're not members "-no wonder they thought I was odd! |
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Azzabuv
This message was updated on 11/18/2005 8:30:52 AM by RMMee |
Very local dialect
replied on: 3/2/2005 6:43:00 PM And Reccy. Heanor recreation Ground. |
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Marylyn
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Very local dialect
replied on: 3/3/2005 2:07:21 PM How about Beer-off for Off Licence ( off course we only went there for Dandelion and Burdock) |
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suzard
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Very local dialect
replied on: 3/3/2005 8:44:29 PM Of course there's Dandelion and Burdock-not heard of in many places outside the area until 1990's |
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Azzabuv
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Very local dialect
replied on: 3/21/2005 7:56:13 AM And going way, way back, - "Sithee". Azzabuv. |
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RMMee
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Very local dialect
replied on: 3/21/2005 5:50:19 PM I don't speak with a particularly Heanor accent, but I got a strange look from someone at work today when I caught myself telling him, in relation to his computer, "Yuv brock it" (meaning you have broken it)! |
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philfred
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Very local dialect
replied on: 3/22/2005 6:52:23 AM Can you remember being addressed as youth? I remember it as a term for your older brother usually,"Our youth sez cannya lend him a bike pump". It then changed once you started wokking at pit especially underground. You then used it when speaking to your workmates like this "gizza push wi this youth" regards Phil |
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Azzabuv
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Very local dialect
replied on: 3/22/2005 10:06:18 AM Phil - only if you wokit reet? Azzabuv. |
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philfred
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Very local dialect
replied on: 3/24/2005 3:26:44 PM Came to me in the wee small hours whilst walking round a large industrial site at Sutton in Ashfield. "Udging up" as in altering your seating position to make room for some one else. For example, you get on a bus and one of your mates is sprawled across the seat so its "udge up,youth" so that you can sit next to them. One from the old man was for going to bed was "up the wooden hill to blanket fair", pre duvet by a long chalk. regards from Phil, in a yellow coat, still on nights. |
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Azzabuv
This message was updated on 3/24/2005 8:37:07 PM by Azzabuv |
Very local dialect
replied on: 3/24/2005 8:24:23 PM The word which i remember for as above (no pun intended) which we all used was 'Utch' up a bit. As long as it's not a WHITE coat you're wearing, Phil, i still feel safe and secure. Azzabuv. |
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suzard
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Very local dialect
replied on: 3/24/2005 9:28:49 PM Also "up the wooden hill to bedfordshire"-(Langley Mill variation) "Put wood in th'ole"-close the door |
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