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Post by andyeastleake on Nov 19, 2014 20:56:57 GMT 1
If you don't mind me asking, which High School did you go to & when did you start there? PS Not from Helme but pretty close by and I sit with two lads at the Mac who did go to school in Helme (and as you know it's far from the biggest place).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 21:02:52 GMT 1
Talamod in Swedish is to have patience. Literally "tolerate/bare mood". The link with Scandanavian and the Yorkshire dialect is remarkable. "Keep your neb out"...neb being a birds beak for example. My Mother always pronounced "water" as "wahter"....German and Norse pronunciation....and phonetically correct! Yep. I can't really stand the retrospective redrawing of the Vikings as cuddly yeomen farmers - they were rapacious bastards - but they certainly settled a huge portion of northern England. Beyond simple vocab, there's some linguists who think it was the Norse and the Anglo-Saxons living side by side that encouraged Old English to develop without genders, barely any cases and a simplified verb system. As a result, it's probable that English developed in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - food for thought when some Norman-influenced London snob seeks to correct our language. I work with builders quite a lot who seem to keep some grand old Norse words alive - happen, lig out, fettle (as in clean), flit (to move house), greet (to cry.) I know one bloke for whom the past tense of sell is "selt."You forgot snag / snagging (list)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 21:15:15 GMT 1
Yep. I can't really stand the retrospective redrawing of the Vikings as cuddly yeomen farmers - they were rapacious bastards - but they certainly settled a huge portion of northern England. Beyond simple vocab, there's some linguists who think it was the Norse and the Anglo-Saxons living side by side that encouraged Old English to develop without genders, barely any cases and a simplified verb system. As a result, it's probable that English developed in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - food for thought when some Norman-influenced London snob seeks to correct our language. I work with builders quite a lot who seem to keep some grand old Norse words alive - happen, lig out, fettle (as in clean), flit (to move house), greet (to cry.) I know one bloke for whom the past tense of sell is "selt."You forgot snag / snagging (list) As in Old Norse snaghyrndr sharp-pointed, Norwegian snage spike, Icelandic snagi peg. Something that sticks out I suppose?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 21:16:21 GMT 1
Truanting = Legging it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 21:22:11 GMT 1
You forgot snag / snagging (list) As in Old Norse snaghyrndr sharp-pointed, Norwegian snage spike, Icelandic snagi peg. Something that sticks out I suppose? I'm claiming a knowledge of Google, not a Linguistics PhD - I found this: Old Norse snaghyrndr sharp-pointed, Norwegian snage spike, Icelandic snagi peg
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 21:24:22 GMT 1
As in Old Norse snaghyrndr sharp-pointed, Norwegian snage spike, Icelandic snagi peg. Something that sticks out I suppose? I'm claiming a knowledge of Google, not a Linguistics PhD - I found this: Old Norse snaghyrndr sharp-pointed, Norwegian snage spike, Icelandic snagi peg Snap. Oddly no reference to "finishing stuff the plumbers said they'd done six weeks ago."
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Nov 19, 2014 21:37:30 GMT 1
I'm claiming a knowledge of Google, not a Linguistics PhD - I found this: Old Norse snaghyrndr sharp-pointed, Norwegian snage spike, Icelandic snagi peg Snap. Oddly no reference to "finishing stuff the plumbers said they'd done six weeks ago." Snap - would be the stuff the plumbers have been eating for most of that six weeks.
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Post by bro600 on Nov 19, 2014 21:41:03 GMT 1
Does anyone remember Babber-stabber ?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 21:43:18 GMT 1
Would that be a fudge budger?
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Post by bro600 on Nov 19, 2014 21:44:38 GMT 1
yeah// lol
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Post by Terrier Ramone on Nov 19, 2014 21:47:53 GMT 1
I've never heard this more than a mile outside Keighley town centre but we used to buy Scones at the chippy - (fish)cakes anywhere else...& it's scraps not bits
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Post by Terrier Ramone on Nov 19, 2014 21:48:34 GMT 1
great thread by the way
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 21:51:01 GMT 1
Anybody play Stretch? You stood facing your opponent with a penknife in hand. Then you'd throw it to stick it in the ground. The opponent had to stretch to reach it with his foot. If he could reach the knife then he would throw it for you etc. The loser was the one who couldn't stretch far enough.
A bit like a dangerous version of Twister.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 21:53:36 GMT 1
I've never heard this more than a mile outside Keighley town centre but we used to buy Scones at the chippy - (fish)cakes anywhere else...& it's scraps not bits Bits for me. Not scraps or bitties, we'll maybe bitties, but not as scran
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Post by bro600 on Nov 19, 2014 22:00:13 GMT 1
Anybody play Stretch? You stood facing your opponent with a penknife in hand. Then you'd throw it to stick it in the ground. The opponent had to stretch to reach it with his foot. If he could reach the knife then he would throw it for you etc. The loser was the one who couldn't stretch far enough. A bit like a dangerous version of Twister. We used to play something similar off a rope swing..pushing the knife into the ground or into something and the next person would have to get it or be out.
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Post by Macjinx on Nov 19, 2014 22:29:27 GMT 1
For those of us that regularly had six pennorth of chips with bits from Gibsons, it will always be bits. UTT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 22:35:15 GMT 1
Harold Wilson called 'em bits, that's good enough for me.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 22:35:51 GMT 1
Never seen chip oyle called Wi Scraps round here..
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Post by 3Pipe on Nov 19, 2014 22:54:06 GMT 1
Bits.
Never heard of scraps until I moved to the Midlands.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 23:25:35 GMT 1
was always wi bits for me too
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Post by Doc Halladay 32 on Nov 19, 2014 23:32:30 GMT 1
another one for bits
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Post by Chips Longhorn on Nov 19, 2014 23:38:15 GMT 1
It's scraps in most places but bits is correct obviously
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 23:47:51 GMT 1
Another one I wondered about, when a Yorkshire guy calls someone pal, it often seems to be rather unfriendly and intimidating. Mate, however is perfectly fine. Yet this seems reversed darn sarth. Anyone else see this or am I just over sensitive?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 23:56:20 GMT 1
bit like the other southern saying ,,me old mucker ,doesnt sound right .sounds like some one who dirtys there pants lol
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2014 0:14:08 GMT 1
It's scraps Wakey way.
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Post by philincalifornia on Nov 20, 2014 0:19:14 GMT 1
Tek thee hooks
No idea what it meant, but an old bloke used to shout it at us anytime we went near his house. I think it was his way of saying f-off.
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Post by conman on Nov 20, 2014 0:19:52 GMT 1
Bits, definitely bits.. Think if we had a poll bits would come tops.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2014 0:20:33 GMT 1
yeah it is phil .similar vain to sling youre hook but with a yorkshire twist
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2014 0:26:42 GMT 1
Yeah, but that is wrong....Pal.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2014 0:30:21 GMT 1
Bits, definitely bits.. Think if we had a poll bits would come tops. Norrin' Wakey it wunt!!!
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