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GUEST,HughM favorite Northern (UK) Expression (117* d) RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression 13 Dec 05


I'll go to the foot of our stairs! (used to express extreme surprise, e.g. when someone one hasn't seen for twenty years turns up on the doorstep).
Thoil: (approximately) to justify, e.g. "They sound alright, but Ah couldn't thoil to spend £10 on a ticket." I might be able to afford the £10, but I could think of better uses for it. (I'm not sure whether this word is used outside Halifax and Bradford.)
Keep band in't nick: not an exhortation to imprison musicians but to keep things running, literally "keep the belt on the pulley".
A packed lunch can be snap, jock or bait, progressing northward.
Someone mentioned the word "wick", meaning lively, or alive when it shouldn't be, such as when a sack of rice is "wick" with cockroaches.
I'm always mildly amused when Radio Scotland mentions the Wick Accordian & Fiddle Club. I imagine them always playing reels at breakneck speed. In the Bradford area there is the exact opposite: the Idle Working Men's Club!


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