Old local expressions - Page 19

garinda · 31-08-2011, 12:42

A nice collection of Lancashire dialect poetry on this site, which has audio, so they can all be listened to.

Lancashire Dialect Poems

Including poems by Alice Miller, who Miller Close in Oswaldtwistle is named after, and Joan Pomfret, who lived in Great Harwood.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ler-49851.html

cashman · 31-08-2011, 13:23

heard one this aft i'd forgotten, "Vexed" me nan used to use it, dunno if its lanky or not?

garinda · 31-08-2011, 13:34

Pobbies - little chunks of bread in hot milk.
Suitable as food for children, or invalids.

mobertol · 31-08-2011, 14:35

That's one my dad used to say.....of course Butties are also only eaten in Lancs.
Favourites being a Chip Butty or a Jam Butty (what I used to get when i came in from school!)

walker · 31-08-2011, 18:40

One my grandma used to say was cockle over.

talentedbutslow · 31-08-2011, 18:48

Eccythump.........

keith higson · 03-09-2011, 00:16

Another of Mums sayings was "I favour him/her etc......_

Michael1954 · 03-09-2011, 05:56

"Any road" meaning anyway.

Eric · 03-09-2011, 08:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I was once in a Mall in Knox City(just outside Melbourne)........my niece was with me but in a different part of the shop we were looking in...she shouted 'Marg...where are you?'
I said 'I'm just rootin' round in this bin full of underwear'(cheap bra's knickers camisoles)...she came out of nowhwere and told me that I could't say that...and then whispered what it meant over there. I blushed!
As they say over there 'you can beat an egg, but you can't beat a root'.

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I know it's a wander; but it seems apt. My best friend's daughter manages the local store. She told me once that Australian tourists spend a fortune on their products.

Michael1954 · 03-09-2011, 08:20

"I'll have a walk" meaning I will just go to the toilet.

jaysay · 03-09-2011, 09:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by mobertol

That's one my dad used to say.....of course Butties are also only eaten in Lancs.
Favourites being a Chip Butty or a Jam Butty (what I used to get when i came in from school!)

Jambutty

don't mention that word on here

jaysay · 03-09-2011, 09:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael1954

"I'll have a walk" meaning I will just go to the toilet.

Another one in that vain I'm just off to point Percy at the porcelain

garinda · 03-09-2011, 16:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by jaysay

Another one in that vain I'm just off to point Percy at the porcelain

I rewatched Alan Bennett's 1975 play, Sunset Across the Bay , this week.

The main character said to his wife, before going into a toilet on the prom,
'I'm just going to shed a tear Mother.'

Amused me, though I'd never heard it before.

Must be a Yorkshire thing.

Michael1954 · 03-09-2011, 16:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by garinda

I rewatched Alan Bennett's 1975 play, Sunset Across the Bay , this week.

The main character said to his wife, before going into a toilet on the prom,
'I'm just going to shed a tear Mother.'

Amused me, though I'd never heard it before.

Must be a Yorkshire thing.

I like it!

jaysay · 03-09-2011, 17:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael1954

I like it!

Certainly different