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Re: Old local expressions
In reply, when asked how you were.
Fair t'middlin'.
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Re: Old local expressions
or 'ahm nobbut middlin'...that is not as good as 'fair to middlin'
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Re: Old local expressions
terms of endearment: Arraminta, Totty lime juice, little lily slapcabbage.
I got called all of those by my gran
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Re: Old local expressions
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Fantastic 
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Gansey!  If you had a fancy new one, you'd get teased more than when you'd just had a haircut. gansey - definition of gansey by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
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We lied, and put a brave face on. We were never nobbut middlin'.
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12-08-2011, 21:49
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i still use that term,ganzi, paris is always playing hell wi me fer it.
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12-08-2011, 21:50
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Me neither! I tell folk...'Just because you have a pain, doesn't mean you can be a pain'!
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It's pronounced ganzy. Never twigged it came from Guernsey sweater.
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When my auntie had completed all her morning chores she changed her 'brat'(apron) from a black gaberdine one(well, it didn't show the muck did it?) to a flowery one, that was just for show.
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Darwendosser n meself always wore a brat at slingers in 63.
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12-08-2011, 21:58
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A very rare occurrence.
'Once every Preston Guild.'
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12-08-2011, 21:59
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Someone brazen.
'More front than Blackpool.'
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