Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Geoff the Duck Date: 01 Dec 05 - 08:15 AM I have always considered "piss off you southern bastard" to quite a useful one. Quack! GtD |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Geoff the Duck Date: 01 Dec 05 - 08:17 AM possibly with "namby pamby" inserted somewhere within the phrase. Whilst watching out for the punctuation police, of course. Quack! GtD. |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Sooz Date: 01 Dec 05 - 08:19 AM Watch thissen SJ :-) |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Dave Hanson Date: 01 Dec 05 - 08:42 AM Geoff, the correct version is " piss off you SOFT southern bastard " eric |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Fred Date: 01 Dec 05 - 08:54 AM Yorkshire born an' Yorkshire bred, Strong in t'arm Thick in t'head |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Rumncoke Date: 02 Dec 05 - 01:53 AM No no it's Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred Strong in't back and wick in't head. Wick - alive, alert or lively - like quick. Anne |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,noddy Date: 02 Dec 05 - 04:03 AM oh, away an play wi yersel. |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Muppett Date: 02 Dec 05 - 04:48 AM Is tha lakin togger t'saft (are you playing football this afternoon) Chumping or progin (what we used to do just before bonfire night i.e. collecting wood for the bonfire) Side that will thee (Put that away, will you) Here's a poser for you all, what's differance between a snicket & a ginnel? |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Big Al Whittle Date: 02 Dec 05 - 04:55 AM Oh come on, no one understands that Muppet! north or south one used to be called a marathon...but nowadays you can get a big one? |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST Date: 02 Dec 05 - 05:11 AM "There's a duck in t' hedge" = something is amiss |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Geoff the Duck Date: 02 Dec 05 - 06:13 AM We had the snicket discussion some time ago -Ginnels. A Ginnel has buildings on either side, a snicket doesn't need buildings - often between hedges. Quack! GtD. |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Muppett Date: 02 Dec 05 - 06:39 AM Am I Sackless or what,Soz Geoff, but me ead's full a cack. |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: ard mhacha Date: 02 Dec 05 - 06:43 AM Aw yah gan ower, to Roker Park to see the game. |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST Date: 02 Dec 05 - 06:49 AM Mr. Fromull (Les) we used to go Srumping for apples. A good website for Yorkshire dialect is www.yorksj.ac.uk/words/A.htm |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Michael Date: 02 Dec 05 - 07:43 AM In North East Derbyshire (Bozer to be precise) packed lunch is 'snap' (tho' when I lived in Preston it were' 'baggin'.) Time has a language of it's own, which I assume dates from days when precision was not important; so it would be 'nigh on afepast fower', 'just tonned three' 'abart quart to' 'five and twenty past'. Mike |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Geoff the Duck Date: 02 Dec 05 - 08:00 AM And in Barnsley, when they want a pie, the time is "summat to eight" Quack! GtD. |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Pied Piper Date: 02 Dec 05 - 08:09 AM I believe the correct expression is "Y mard arse southern Jessi" PP |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Les from Hull Date: 02 Dec 05 - 08:29 AM Mr M Uppett - collecting bonfire wood in 'ull is 'fragging'. And all our snickets and gunnels are 'tenfoots'. |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Dave the Gnome Date: 02 Dec 05 - 08:54 AM I liked the Bringle eaf stuff:-) Knew a girl from just across the way from there (Strawberry Road) and we used to ask her how to bake a cake. Get some flowoh, some sugoh, some bu'oh... My personal favourite was from my Grandad - "Ah'll gan thee a punce on't'yed" Some others not heard by me but reported in a local history book. "Look at aw them daft buggers - They're all gooin to geron that tram an only half on 'em ull fit" "Ah'lll sound the bloody whistle at half past twelve wharever time it is" Cheers Dave t'gnome |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: robomatic Date: 02 Dec 05 - 03:13 PM sassenach |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Boab Date: 03 Dec 05 - 02:31 AM "Whar's thoo gannin' Lad"? "Gannin tae the pitchers, Marra!" "Gannin' rae the bliddy pitchers? --Whey, Man,it's a ca'd neet-- howay in the hoose an' heat thee bliddy Knackers at wor yag!" "How' Boab, dis thou like corran' kyek?" "Divs Ah like corran' kyek? Whey Lad, Ah think am diz!" |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: ard mhacha Date: 03 Dec 05 - 05:19 AM So much for Ulster-Scots getting a grant for a "language", why not Geordie?. |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Doug Chadwick Date: 03 Dec 05 - 05:50 AM BPL - re 'tou're not in t'north until you're past Darlin'ton" - just remember, all things are relative! LOL! Geordies think that they come from the North-East but Newcastle-upon Tyne is further west than Southampton - just remember, all things are relative!. The East starts at Cleethorpes (and Greenwhich too, of course) DC |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Dave Hanson Date: 03 Dec 05 - 08:40 AM A ' geordie ' is only a Scotsman with his brains kicked out, so shut thi gob. eric |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: danensis Date: 03 Dec 05 - 12:50 PM A "ten foot" is an alley, snickets were only three or four foot and were a short-cut from one street to another, ginnels went through a house or between shops to get to the back yard. In York of course they have snickleways. I always thought the south started at Bawtry? The north of course, starts at Watford. |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Dave the Gnome Date: 04 Dec 05 - 04:19 AM I'm all for re-introducing the Watford Gap... :D |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Big Al Whittle Date: 04 Dec 05 - 09:03 AM dog rough...rough as a badger's arse! |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Georgiansilver Date: 04 Dec 05 - 09:04 AM How do you know Al? LOL |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: John Routledge Date: 04 Dec 05 - 04:47 PM A "Geordie" is a Scotsman with his brains bashed back in again. |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Guy Wolff Date: 04 Dec 05 - 09:11 PM My favorite expression is: translated into American slang " Come visit and well play some music . You can stay anytime and as long as you like !!! " MUSIC TO THE EARS !!! <><><><> |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Big Al Whittle Date: 05 Dec 05 - 04:42 AM doesn't sound like any notherners I know........ they're the gang who came up with the expression Ad rather keep him for a week than a fortneet (that might have been me grandad!) |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Hull Exile Date: 05 Dec 05 - 04:44 AM Eeeh, yer don't sweat much for a fat lass! [Disco chat-up line originating in Barnsley] Yer cart educate pork! [term of exasparation in failing to make someone understand originating from my Dad. |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Paul Burke Date: 05 Dec 05 - 05:18 AM Strawberry Road! My brother and his mates had a house there from about 1970 to 1978-ish. Just opposite the pub. Trying to remember the name of the Boddie's pub a street or two away, there was the weirdest grafitti in the bog: "dead mans has canabis", "comunity transport", stuff like that. And the day they came round with a football card, raising money for a trip to the races- when they gave it to me to mark my teams, I noticed that it was boldly headed "Thirks Tripe". Aye, them was the days, a pint of Boddie's mild for 21p. |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Stu Date: 05 Dec 05 - 05:40 AM Reet greatly! |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Dave the Gnome Date: 05 Dec 05 - 09:11 AM Was it the Railway on Broughton Road, Paul? I think that was a Bodds pub. DtG |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Folkiedave Date: 05 Dec 05 - 09:30 AM See if you understand Yorkshire Humour - a test. Two blokes meeting together every night for twenty odd years. First one called at the second one's house every night at 9.00 pm "Is Harry ready?" he'd say and the wife would reply "Aye he's on his way". One night he came along at 9.00 pm and the wife instead of her usual reply said "I am sorry to tell you but he died last night". "Ehh I am sorry" says the first bloke, "Did he say owt about a tin of paint?" |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: muppett Date: 05 Dec 05 - 11:00 AM Eric the Red Weir as't tha bin sin ar last saw thee ? |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Dave Hanson Date: 06 Dec 05 - 01:38 AM 'ay oop muppet, not bin out much lately, might get darn t' Stubbing on wensdy neet, or t' Navigation at Sowerby Brig on Friday neet. Me 'n Clive etc are playing at the Melborne on Christmas Eve and there is a session at 'Blue Pig at Midgehole [ Hardcastle Crags ] on New Years Eve. Ahl sithee, eric |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Les from Hull Date: 06 Dec 05 - 03:18 PM Come to think of it, though, my absolute favourite Northern UK expression came from me Nan. When I was very small, if I saw Nanna baking I would be there (there was always a good chance of licking the bowl). "What are you making, Nanna?" "Whim-whams for ducks to chase at!" I never heard that anywhere else. |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Gurney Date: 07 Dec 05 - 01:46 AM ... And had me standing theer like a wazzock on the cussey! Cussy is pavement... causeway, but is a wazzock an adze? They stand on their heads, and look sort of stupefied because of the shape of the haft. |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,noddy Date: 07 Dec 05 - 04:16 AM A Yorkshireman is just a Scot without the generosity! |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Hull Exile Date: 07 Dec 05 - 04:30 AM Les fom Hull's posting re' his Nan's 'duck' expression reminded me of a similar response when my Dad was asked what he was doing 'I'm making a wigwam for a ducks bridle' Also when asked where he was going 'I'm off ter Nafferton Slacks, where they teck blind ducks ter s**t!' I've no idea at all where they come from. |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Michael Date: 07 Dec 05 - 01:32 PM My Grannie Annie said; 'A whim wham for a goose's bridle' when she meant 'a thingie'. When asked where any thing was she replied; 'Up in Annie's room at back ut clock'. Mike |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Snuffy Date: 07 Dec 05 - 07:58 PM It was usually "in a bottle on the roof" for us. And we were usually scruffy enough to look like "boggart come down t'fess'ole" |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Boab Date: 07 Dec 05 - 09:32 PM "Whit's for ma birthday, Faither?" "A wee roon whustle wi a naethin oan the end...." "As quate as Aiberdeen oan a flag day--" "As fu' as a bliddy monkey--sprauchle't oan his back like a coupit yowe in the glaur". "Black as the earl o'Hell's waistcoat" " A face like a skelpit erse.." |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Paul Burke Date: 08 Dec 05 - 04:07 AM "What's for dinner, Mam?" "A jump at t'pantry door and a bite at t'latch." |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,DB Date: 08 Dec 05 - 07:46 AM I grew up in Peterborough (which is not in the North or the South but the East - so there!) we said "whim wham for a duck's arse". We also had this word for sweets (what Mancunians call 'toffees' and Southern jessies call 'boiled sugar comestibles' - probably) and that was 'dods' - as in "gis a dod, mate or I'll bash yer 'ed in!". Has anyone heard that one before? I believe that in some regional dialects the word 'dod' means 'snail' - which sort of makes sense, in a revolting sort of a way. |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Mrs.Duck Date: 08 Dec 05 - 05:07 PM That Muppet, he doesn't know if he's on this Earth or Fullers . :0) |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: GUEST,Boab Date: 08 Dec 05 - 05:34 PM Guest DB---ask for a "dod" in Ayrshire, an' ye'll maybe get get yer head bashed in! Theword has two meanings there, depending on context; "A dod oan the lug" describes a blow to the ear-hole, while a "dod o' cake" means a slice . [I think the spelling here however, is likely "daud".] |
Subject: RE: favorite Northern (UK) Expression From: Leadfingers Date: 09 Dec 05 - 11:08 AM Ey Ooop !! 100th post !!! |
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