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Thread #13144   Message #2877485
Posted By: MGM·Lion
01-Apr-10 - 01:20 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Sally Gardens / Salley Gardens
Subject: RE: Origin: Sally Gardens
"Manky", I recall from National Service in early 1950s, was the common, non-regional, army adjective for insufficiently clean and smart kit.

"Clarty" {& associated verb "clart" ~ as in

"We're down here in t'cellar ay, where muck clarts up t'winders;
We've burned all our coals up & we're now burning cinders.
If landlord he do come then he'll never find* us;
For we're down here in t'cellar ay, where muck clarts up t'winders"

which I learned from an army & Cambridge friend from Salford, Lancashire}

appears to be quite widespread Northern English as well as Scots.

*[pron with short 'i']