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Thread #86820 Message #1617577
Posted By: Folkiedave
30-Nov-05 - 06:36 PM
Thread Name: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
Bill Mills (RIP) sang at the Carols of Dungworth for many years.
He was the only man I ever met who could get four syllables out of the word "ear".
As in Swaledale ........" and lend a charm to your e-a-r-r"
And then from Sheffield again - boo-it - a thing you put your feet in to go to work.
And finally smittling.......the smittling chair is one in which if a woman sits, she gets pregnant - [smittle=catching, infectious].
Well, it worked for a friend of mine!!
Dave