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Post by telscombe59 on Aug 13, 2012 12:42:00 GMT
OK 'bahn', I wasn't that worried how it was spelt
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Post by sean1981 on Aug 16, 2012 11:44:12 GMT
Looking at an earlier comment about 'siding' the table, meaning clearing away. I wonder if it links back to a time when the side board was just that and not the cupboard with drawers we now have.
IE a side board against the wall where things were placed and the next food brought across and taken back.
Sean
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Post by elfremar on Aug 20, 2012 19:19:43 GMT
Brilliant thread,keep it going.
When I was growing up my mother also used to say boaken for retching,and if she was in her underwear she would say she was in her dissables.I found out years later that it comes from the French disabille,to be in a state of undress.She also called the draining board the slopsten,a, vest was a singlet and a cardigan was a gansy.
I worked with someone who would say she was as throng as Throp's wife when she was busy,and anyone who looked like they had a lot on their shoulders was said to be ooined,not sure how to spell that one.
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Post by angler on Sept 1, 2012 12:26:15 GMT
An other word for kissing was I think Snoggin Then there was Kindling for wood for fire lighting Of course there was also Twagging for Truant. Keep them coming. Angler
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Post by angler on Sept 1, 2012 12:29:16 GMT
Just thought of an-other one Dish clout Used to wash the Dishes Angler
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Post by barcroftlad on Sept 2, 2012 20:27:37 GMT
Just thought of an-other one Dish clout Used to wash the Dishes Angler and a posser to stir the clothes in the boiler. Cheers |
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Post by barcrofter on Sept 5, 2012 15:32:00 GMT
We had a large cast iron boiler in the corner of the kitchen, it was built in with a fire underneath and had it's own chimney. It was always known as the SET POT, originally used for wash day.
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Post by sean1981 on Sept 7, 2012 8:56:54 GMT
Yes my grandmother had an old Yorkshire range at one time and we had to fill the 'set pot' when we drew water to take to the kitchen to wash up.
The plan was to take a ladling can full of cold water through, tip it in the top and then draw off water from a brass tap. One journey :-)
John
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Post by bridgebabe on Sept 19, 2012 17:46:46 GMT
Just a few observations - brought up in Bradford in 1950s (but married to a Keighley man and interesting to find what 'local or dialect' expressions we have in common.
I know 'throng as Throp's wife' as being extremely busy
being 'nauped' ( hit on the head usually) from my father from Giggleswick - not child abuse! you could get nauped by a cupboard door
'cafeld' not in use in Bradford and had to learn this after marriage, but brussen was used in Bradford and in the Dales
have discussed with OH and we both think a snicket is narrower than a ginnel ( no knowledge of either being covered in though)
'spice' - being given by older relatives a sixpence for 'some spice' (sweets}
'calling' - not cawling!! with a short a But calling was thought to be a bit of waste of time
'offcumd'uns' a Keighley expression?
Lots of others - but well remember the time I asked my husband to buy me fish, cake and chips. Was NOT amused to learn of the difference between 'fish cake' in Keighley and 'scone' - what we Bradfordians call Keighley's scone at the fish and chip shop
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Post by fsharpminor on Sept 19, 2012 18:36:39 GMT
Yes they were scones in Keighley. Offcumd'uns, I understood to be what people in Haworth called those who lived there but were not originally from Haworth.
Over here , across in Liverpool people call we Wirral people 'woollybacks'
We've had this before, but the kids will be progging soon, isnt that chumping in Bradford ?
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Post by barcroftlad on Sept 19, 2012 20:08:22 GMT
Not just Haworth Brian, although that is where I learned the expression. I have always believed offcumdens to be a general dialect term around our villages to refer to those amongst them who originated from somewhere else. For a bit of fun I googled the word and it came up on a Skipton website.
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Post by eric on Sept 20, 2012 18:27:33 GMT
I was speaking to a lady this afternoon, and she remarked that so and so was "Better Known than the Bell-Man" can anyone tell me, where this expression comes from?
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Post by Andy Wade on Sept 21, 2012 10:09:21 GMT
Sounds like a rent collector to me. I bet he was the only person who rang the bell so they knew to hide and pretend they weren't in...
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Post by eric on Sept 21, 2012 20:32:27 GMT
At the time of the Black Death, they used to go round ringing a bell shouting "Bring Out Your Dead!", but I don't somehow think it's that, more likely a rag and bone man or something like that., but hopefully someone else will come up with some suggestions as well. I seem to remember words like "Moithered" "Doy" and a "Reet Buckstick"
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Post by Andy Wade on Sept 22, 2012 9:29:33 GMT
Could it possibly be the campanologist from the local parish church?
He (or she) would be well known to everyone as the person who called them all to worship on a Sunday.
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Post by vale on Sept 22, 2012 9:50:31 GMT
Better known than the bell man, or, better known than the Town crier was a well used saying, everyone in the town knew who the crier was because he was the guy bringing the news to the town, and to announce that he had news he would ring his bell.
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Post by Andy Wade on Sept 22, 2012 18:55:28 GMT
Doh. Nice one Loraine.
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Post by francesh on Sept 23, 2012 23:42:26 GMT
How about "I'm starved" - meaning I'm hungry!
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Post by francesh on Sept 23, 2012 23:51:41 GMT
"Stop wittering" whining or complaining
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Post by sean1981 on Nov 29, 2012 18:43:12 GMT
A strange one to consider....
We were just talking about cob webs forming overnight by the window when I realized that we always refer to spiders as, just that.
I wonder if many call them cobs?
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Post by joycen on Dec 5, 2012 23:54:41 GMT
"Stop wittering" reminds me of 2 more "Stop moidering me"-Whining, complaining or trying to get attention and "wittercan" -someone that talks on and on.
Just dipped into this discussion and had to read the lot!!
My grandad had to "talk posh" for his job, but when gran was not around, she was a bit of a "Mrs Bucket" -bless her cotton socks, he would revert to dialect with his brother-in-law. According to my dad his grandad only spoke in a very broad dialect.
Two phrases I remember are "Ayes ah bahn geet ah gaht"- I'm going home, and "is tha gan yam?"-Are you going home?
Not sure if these are "local" as grandad's family came from Holmefirth and the BinLaw from Beverley way?
Can anyone settle an argument I have with my hubby- Has anyone head of "yan,tan,tetra" for 1,2,3, as in "if tha bahn't stopped messing rund by't time ah geets tu tertra thas bahna feel mi hand..1,2,3" translates as "if you don't stop being naughty by the time I get to three your goingt geta smack"- Hubby says he's never heard of this way of counting!!-Don't know what would come after "Tetra"
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Post by barcroftlad on Dec 6, 2012 10:16:50 GMT
I wonder how many recall this gem:
Incy mincy tipsy tee.
Alabama dominee.
Okker pokker, dominokker.
Out pong tush.
or the other game starter: One potato, two potato, three potato four. Five potato, six potato, seven potato more.Eight potato, nine potato, ten potato OUT.
Those were the days. We were so innocent eh?
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Post by barcrofter on Dec 6, 2012 12:50:49 GMT
"I'm starved" - meaning I'm hungry! reminds me of another "I'm pined bowlegged"
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Post by sean1981 on Dec 9, 2012 20:33:05 GMT
I think yan, tan, tetra comes from the herders in the dales. They had an old way of counting sheep.
No not counting the legs and dividing by four :-)
John
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Post by Admin on Dec 10, 2012 0:34:13 GMT
The herders story is true, apparently. It's a very simple but ingenious way to count sheep without writing: Yan Tan Tethera |
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Post by sean1981 on Mar 8, 2013 10:10:37 GMT
fsharpminor
An old word from where your wife comes from, for a dish cloth is, dwile. Over the water in The Netherlands it is dweil (sounds the same).
John
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Post by fsharpminor on Mar 8, 2013 10:40:55 GMT
fsharpminor An old word from where your wife comes from, for a dish cloth is, dwile. Over the water in The Netherlands it is dweil (sounds the same). John Thats right John , theres the old East Anglian game of dwile flonking, the dwile being a cloth soaked in beer. |
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Post by harrier on Mar 11, 2013 18:36:13 GMT
How about 'Swilling the flags and donkeying them', white at the sides outside and red if the flags were in the kitchen.
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Post by Andy Wade on Mar 11, 2013 20:29:43 GMT
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Post by sean1981 on Mar 12, 2013 10:00:03 GMT
In Haworth we could buy different shades of 'scouring stones' from pale cream to sort of pale yellow.
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