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Posted -  14/11/2010  :  06:41
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Tizer
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Posted - 04/08/2011 : 09:18
Collins says `molly' is `Irish informal' for a weak, effeminate or cowardly boy or man and possibly comes from Molly, the nickname for someone called Mary.


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Posted - 06/08/2011 : 09:50
I found nyself using this phrase this morning on Shed Culture. 'As I was quietly chobbling the bearing housings out '.  I had reverted to Warwickshire dialect which is where I picked it up at Whatcote when I was farming there. Anyone else come across it?


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Posted - 17/08/2011 : 23:55
"Eeeeee "..........

Mum came  out with a phrase, tonight , that I hadn't heard for quite a while  ....

"Eeeeee , it was a right funny-do "

.......it made me smile because she realized staight away , that she'd slipped back into the vernacular....!

 

 


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Stanley
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Posted - 18/08/2011 : 05:06
That got me to thinking of 'reight gradely'.


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Posted - 18/08/2011 : 09:16
"owart thi fettlin" Stanley


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Posted - 19/08/2011 : 07:06
Gradely Lad, gradely.....  See Shed Culture!


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Posted - 20/08/2011 : 00:04
I have lived  in both yorkshire and lancashire for about the same time now and am begining (please forgive me) to mix greetings up..so can someone sort my list out: 'Now then!' 'Ey up!' ' How do!' ..in my mind the first and the last are Lancashire and the middle one Yorkshire..or have I got it back to front?
Oh and then there's 'Sithee!' 'Think on'. ' Areet?'

Edited by - belle on 20/08/2011 12:06:17 AM


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Posted - 20/08/2011 : 06:01
I wouldn't like to be dogmatic about any of 'em Belle. I've heard 'sithee' in Lancs, Yorks and Derbyshire for certain. Think on was in Stockport when I was a lad and I think I started to use 'alreight' as a greeting when I came to Barlick.The only phrase I think I can say I have heard nowhere else but in Barlick is 'Thing o' purpose'. Old Sid Demaine used to say that regularly. A very old construction.


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Posted - 20/08/2011 : 08:33
Stanley, tha seems ta be reight throng int shed, should keep thi thinking cap on for sum time


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Posted - 21/08/2011 : 05:39
Nice to be busy Bodge. Keeps my mind off this crazy world.


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Posted - 22/08/2011 : 20:34
"Dictionary compilers create endangered words list. Collins experts remove obsolete words - including aerodrome and wittol - from smaller dictionaries". The Guardian [LINK]



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Posted - 23/08/2011 : 00:39
Oh Calamity ! (who said that ?).....  They can't remove  aerodromes , where would aeroplanes land ?....

It's too bad !

Ps.. What's a wittol ?........." when it's at home"   ......(discuss ?)

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Posted - 23/08/2011 : 01:24
Only Lanky spokken ere.


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Posted - 23/08/2011 : 03:36
I heard the same news item. Wittol is a cuckold I think.


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Posted - 25/08/2011 : 10:02
Thing is if you remove a word from a dictionary..well that's scrabble players snookered eh..are we supposed to keep updating all our old favourites every time they kill one off..nay I can see trouble brewing!



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