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27-08-2011, 17:04
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Re: Old local expressions
Bomzit - An untidy place.
I could never work out if a bomzit meant 'a bomb's hit', or it was like 'a bomb site'.
Either way, my bedroom was very often described as being like a bomzit, apparently.
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27-08-2011, 17:15
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Re: Old local expressions
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Originally Posted by garinda
Bomzit - An untidy place.
I could never work out if a bomzit meant 'a bomb's hit', or it was like 'a bomb site'.
Either way, my bedroom was very often described as being like a bomzit, apparently.
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Bomb Site = bomsite
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27-08-2011, 17:50
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Re: Old local expressions
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Bomb Site = bomsite
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Seems it could still have two meanings, bomb site, and bomb's hit.
bomb - definition of bomb by Macmillan Dictionary
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27-08-2011, 19:04
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Re: Old local expressions
He were agate like this eer!
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27-08-2011, 19:53
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Re: Old local expressions
Dad used to put me to bed and say "Neckle bless".....wonder where that came from?
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27-08-2011, 21:25
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Re: Old local expressions
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Thad wud a sounded like, "luks lyk a bomsitit".
Never cum across a Lanky Thesaurus, weyr du yu ged um fro, a cu du wi one o them.
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27-08-2011, 21:30
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Re: Old local expressions
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Dad used to put me to bed and say "Neckle bless".....wonder where that came from?
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I'm not sure but it could just be that it was 'Night, God Bless'...in a contracted form......I am sure soldiers used to say something like(and Retlaw might be able to help out here)...'its all mi eye and something(can't remember the word) martin'....this saying was supposed to have its roots in a french saying...but was bastardised by troops who didn't understand the french language.
Well, that is unless anyone knows anything different.
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27-08-2011, 21:46
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Re: Old local expressions
Complete change of tack but where does "as daft as a brush" come form?
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27-08-2011, 21:49
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Re: Old local expressions
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Thad wud a sounded like, "luks lyk a bomsitit".
Never cum across a Lanky Thesaurus, weyr du yu ged um fro, a cu du wi one o them.
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It would if we were translating received pronunciation.
Round here, where you never heard much of the Queen's English, they'd say,
'Looks like a bomb's hit.'
Which in Lanky would be shortened even further to,
'Looks like a bomzit.'
We're never happier than when shortening words, or dropping them all together.
Why waste time and energy, when you're pow fagged from a hard day's graft, saying two words, when one'll do?
That's my take on it, and what was said where I lived. Though as you posted, there will be deviations in speech, even within a radius of a few miles.
So really, seeing as Lanky dialect was spoken, and never intended to be written down, at least by the ordinary man, there's really no right, or wrong.
If it seems reet, it is.
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27-08-2011, 21:50
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Re: Old local expressions
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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
'if oo hed any mor meawth, she hev no face to wesh'
'her as too much o wat cat licks its bottom wi'
'She hez a meawth like a roven(torn) pocket'
'She hez a meawth like a rusty bucket'
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All that mouthin' off....
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27-08-2011, 21:55
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Re: Old local expressions
A face that could curdle cream/turn milk sour - A stern, grim faced person.
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27-08-2011, 21:55
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Re: Old local expressions
'Scuse me but cows are beasts of great dignity - used by man every day...I know because i work with them...utmost regard for their sufference....
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27-08-2011, 21:56
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Re: Old local expressions
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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I'm not sure but it could just be that it was 'Night, God Bless'...in a contracted form......I am sure soldiers used to say something like(and Retlaw might be able to help out here)...'its all mi eye and something(can't remember the word) martin'....this saying was supposed to have its roots in a french saying...but was bastardised by troops who didn't understand the french language.
Well, that is unless anyone knows anything different.
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I've remembered it now......'it's all mi eye and betty martin'(meaning it's nonsense or unbelievable)...amazing when you stop trying so hard it comes to you.
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27-08-2011, 21:56
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Re: Old local expressions
Always like when asked which way somebody went the answer could be he went up bonk or down bonk.Once said that while working in london bloke looked at me gone out
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27-08-2011, 21:57
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Re: Old local expressions
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A face that could curdle cream/turn milk sour - A stern, grim faced person.
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Or a face like a slapped arse- a sulker.
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