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Stanley
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Opening text too long so I've moved it to the first response.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 30/09/2010 : 04:14
I've never really thought about 'swarm'. Th picture that comes to my mind is a swarm of bees on a branch. Webster not very helpful, just says 16th cemtury and connects it with 'shin' as meaning the same thing. I suppose the latter is because you grip the rope with your lower leg.
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Posted - 30/09/2010 : 12:57
My daughter calls her Dad's mum 'Nana', and my mum 'Grandma'. I think I will prefer to be called Nana (in the future), but if the grandchilds fathers mother wants to be called Nana too, i will probably be known as 'Nana P'. Should be fun anyway. 
All thru the fields and meadows gay .... Enjoy
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Posted - 30/09/2010 : 16:37
For that meaning of swarm, Collin's also says 16th C unknown origin.
Cath, if you end up as `Nana P' it will sound like a robot out of Star Wars!
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Stanley
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Posted - 01/10/2010 : 05:28
My daughters differentiated the two grandmas as 'Grandma from Kelbrook' and'Grandma from here'
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Posted - 01/10/2010 : 12:24
I think Nana P would suit me cause I'm always running off for a quick p.. :)
All thru the fields and meadows gay .... Enjoy
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Posted - 01/10/2010 : 14:44
My cousins daughter and grandchildren call me`Perfect Peter' but I don't know why...
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Stanley
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Posted - 02/10/2010 : 05:57
Youthful ignorance?
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gearce
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Posted - 02/10/2010 : 11:01
Read today in a magazine article re "mash the tea" being a North of England term for "brew the tea" ...... Very similar to the Scottish term "mask the tea"
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Posted - 02/10/2010 : 12:58
"Bran mash" is something fed to equine quadrupeds for a variety of reasons. But mashed potato is a different matter altogether. But neither can be prepared with a mashie niblick.
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Posted - 03/10/2010 : 11:40
Mashing is the stage in brewing beer where you mix the ground up malted barley (grist) with hot water, leave it for an hour and then drain off the `sweet wort' from the `spent grain'. So there is some similarity to brewing tea.
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Posted - 03/10/2010 : 19:44
http://sounds.bl.uk/View.aspx?item=021M-C0908X0007XX-0100V0.xml
Here is a lovely bit of dialogue that I came across today whilst looking for something else. The main speaker, Dick Davies, was a well known character in Horton in Ribblesdale, (even when he was sober), in years gone by. I first met hin in the late 40s. He had a son, Tommy, who was also quite a character.
Edited by - catgate on 03/10/2010 7:45:21 PM
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Posted - 04/10/2010 : 09:59
A passage from a book I have just read, set on a farm (above London) just before and after the 2nd WW.
'You hold the tundish steady for me and I'll pour in the oil'.
'Why do you call it a tundish? We always call it a funnel at home (London)'.
When there came a drizzle of rain, Charlie called it a "duck's frost" and when he was hungry he said he was "clemmed". Once he called 'come and see this moggy here', and Phillip expected to see a cat. But the "moggy" turned out to be a calf.
Ever heard of these??
All thru the fields and meadows gay .... Enjoy
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Posted - 04/10/2010 : 12:52
Cath I think the book is making up it's own romanticised dialect, problably by someone who has'nt been to Egland doesn't sound like any dialect I know...but I could be wrong!
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Posted - 04/10/2010 : 12:55
Skit, skite, skittish, skittery,skitters all mean slighlty different things but seem to have the same root...i wonder what it it means..my definitions of the list would be to lampoon or take off, to slide sometimes with a bounce, jumpy, slidey, and loose bowels...
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Posted - 04/10/2010 : 15:42
Cath - I've heard tundish used for funnel, and clemmed for starving during a Lancashire upbringing. I think both words would be seen as old fashioned even then. Never heard ducks frost, and for me, a moggy is always a cat.
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Dialect and other regional matters.
