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Old 14-09-2011, 15:25   #391
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Aye getting tupped at wrong time could put a bun in the oven.

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Old 14-09-2011, 17:47   #392
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Old 14-09-2011, 18:39   #393
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Tupped was always a head butt in the circles i frequented.
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Old 14-09-2011, 19:15   #394
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Tupped was always a head butt in the circles i frequented.
The only circles you were ever in, was out of one pub door & into another pub.
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Old 14-09-2011, 20:09   #395
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The only circles you were ever in, was out of one pub door & into another pub.
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Old 14-09-2011, 20:42   #396
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As hard as a cobbler's lopstone.

A face as long as Solomon Samson's sow.

Like a mule at a nettle early in spring.

His e'en twinkled like a farthing rushlight.

Quite young and all alive, like an old maid of forty five.

Hoo howds up her yed like a new bowt tit.

Yo 're puttin y'or yed in dog kennel neaw.

On a bed a mon lee, that favvert he're wavin his last drawn o'life.

I like summat at 's deed ov a knife.

Keep yor heart eawt o' yor clogs.

Stroke with one hand, and strike wit'other.

As drunk as blazes.

A mouse only has one 'ole, n is easily tekken in.

A man might as well eat the Devil, as sup the broth he's boiled in.

We're o' someburys childer.

Owder and th' madder.
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Old 14-09-2011, 20:45   #397
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Whoops, the above are from here.

LANCASHIRE SAYINGS

Hand typed, as you can't copy and paste.

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Old 15-09-2011, 09:15   #398
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Tha were just a twinkle in thi dads eye
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Old 15-09-2011, 13:06   #399
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My grandma used to say its as scruffy as the back o John Haworths.
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Old 15-09-2011, 18:01   #401
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Don't beat about the bush, get to the point
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Old 15-09-2011, 18:02   #402
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I was tickled pink with that, you were very happy about something
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There's an Accrington accent recorded on this site, you can listen to.

English dialect vocabulary

She talks about not being clammed.

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Bit non pc but here goes Yons as black as fire back, for a dirty or ethnic person.
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Bit non pc but here goes Yons as black as fire back, for a dirty or ethnic person.
Only ever used when the sheikh, used to peddle his wears from a suitcase in the 50s and 60s WM
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