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Old 09-09-2011, 18:12   #359
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Re: Old local expressions

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington View Post
You are probably much too young to have heard it said G.

It was used by folk of my grans generation.
Maybe Retlaw will enlighten us....not casting aspersions on Retlaw, trying to say he is as old as my grans generation, but he might have heard it said as he was growing up.
I prefered the company of older relatives as a child, many of whom were born in the nineteenth century, all of whom spoke broad Lanky.

Much more interesting talking to them, than chattering about Andy Pandy with my contemporaries.

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