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Thread #86820   Message #1617904
Posted By: GUEST,Boab
01-Dec-05 - 04:41 AM
Thread Name: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression
"Zurombyin?" --Is anyone home?
"Hoozitgaun auld yin"<---How are you, my friend?
"Snoscollswizz"!---the ambient temperature is somewhat higher than it has been of late..
"The baw's oan the slates!"--we have come to an in impasse
"Gaun like snaw aff a dyke"---disappearing very fast.
"Keep the hied an' buy a bunnet"!--Calm down, stay cool
"Bawls like a bull"!---the literal meaning--not the phonetic-----

Except for the last, oft-heard speech in the realm o' the "Jocks".