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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]As you know there are many christmas customs in the UK such as the one below. http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Xmas/wassail.htm The Langley mill area has a few too such as SUPWIYO- participants go to a public house and drink more than is really good for them if the truth be told. They then stare at weak looking innocent bystanders and utter the traditional greeting of 'Supwiyo?' or as it is rendered in modern English, 'whats up with you?' implying that you are staring at them aggressively. It is the tradition to avert your gaze or if you wish to play, for them to rub their forehead affectionately but violently on the bridge of your nose. A variant that requires rather more participation is 'WOTYOLOOKINAT' to which the traditional reply is 'nowt' and the response in turn is 'Are you calling me nowt' and then the nose/head rubbing ceremony begins. GOONTHENSTART is a erewash valley traditional dance. Two men begin this dance by dancing backwards away from each other while shouting the greeting above. Then one seizes the other by the neck and pulls him round lifting his shirt up over his head and playing rubbing his knuckles in his partners eyes. The dance concludes when one partner lies on the floor whilst the other is grabbed by a female dancer who pulls his arm and sings the refrain 'leave him, hes not worth it' as the partner touches the now supine dancers ribs with his feet. These traditions are now decades old and can be enjoyed again this christmas. [/quote]
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Russell Saxton

Christmas tradition in langley mill
replied on: 11/21/2006 6:35:53 PM

As you know there are many christmas customs in the UK such as the one below.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Xmas/wassail.htm

The Langley mill area has a few too such as

SUPWIYO- participants go to a public house and drink more than is really good for them if the truth be told. They then stare at weak looking innocent bystanders and utter the traditional greeting of 'Supwiyo?' or as it is rendered in modern English, 'whats up with you?' implying that you are staring at them aggressively.
It is the tradition to avert your gaze or if you wish to play, for them to rub their forehead affectionately but violently on the bridge of your nose.

A variant that requires rather more participation is 'WOTYOLOOKINAT' to which the traditional reply is 'nowt' and the response in turn is 'Are you calling me nowt' and then the nose/head rubbing ceremony begins.

GOONTHENSTART is a erewash valley traditional dance. Two men begin this dance by dancing backwards away from each other while shouting the greeting above. Then one seizes the other by the neck and pulls him round lifting his shirt up over his head and playing rubbing his knuckles in his partners eyes. The dance concludes when one partner lies on the floor whilst the other is grabbed by a female dancer who pulls his arm and sings the refrain 'leave him, hes not worth it' as the partner touches the now supine dancers ribs with his feet.

These traditions are now decades old and can be enjoyed again this christmas.

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