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Old 01-08-2012, 17:25   #676
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Minimum two showers a day at the moment Jay -and I always dust lightly with talc!
Glad I didn't see you in the height of Summer, I'm allergic to talc
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Old 01-08-2012, 17:50   #677
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Glad I didn't see you in the height of Summer, I'm allergic to talc
So am I when it's all over our bathroom floor and I have to clean it up.
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Old 01-08-2012, 19:50   #678
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Glad I didn't see you in the height of Summer, I'm allergic to talc
You know I'm an old-fashioned girl -this is what I use...

Linea Talco - Borotalco

Couldn't live without it in the summer especially.
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Old 01-08-2012, 19:55   #679
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Is saying "Chucky egg" a Lankyshire thing?
Not sure about Lanky, but I remember me Mam using it when we were young urchins.
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Old 01-08-2012, 19:59   #680
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Linea Talco - Borotalco

Couldn't live without it in the summer especially.
It's quite hard to find decent talc over here now, everyone goes in for body sprays but I prefer powder - except on the floor as I said before - and R is worse than me for throwing his baby powder about!
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Is saying "Chucky egg" a Lankyshire thing?
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Not sure about Lanky, but I remember me Mam using it when we were young urchins.
Think Daves right Di, I stayed in London fer awhile in 60s n heard it used down yon also.
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Old 02-08-2012, 09:18   #682
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Heard one on telly last night Mither, as in moaning and mithering
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Heard one on telly last night Mither, as in moaning and mithering
Is that similar to Moither?
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When we were little and it was bath-time we used to get called "mucky pups" is that Lanky?
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Is that similar to Moither?
It's the same, as is moider, just different spelling.

Think mucky pups is widespread. Just add the accent and anything can sound Lanky!

As for chucky eggs - general countrywide baby talk I would say. Also an endearment along the lines of mon petit chou - my little chucky egg, not cabbage!
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mither - Wiktionary

According to this mither and moither mean the same though moither is down as Yorkshire, and moider means somethng sightly different. It was always mither in our house.
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Re: Old local expressions
Apologies, if already mentiioned.

'Camp' - chat/informal talk.

Overheard yesterday.

'They were all camping ten to the dozen, I couldn't hear myself think.'

It is only used for informal chatting.

You would have 'a good camp', with an old friend you hadn't seen in a long while.

You wouldn't do it in a formal interview.

Well not if you wanted the job.

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Apologies, if already mentiioned.

'Camp' - chat/informal talk.

Overheard yesterday.

'They were all camping ten to the dozen, I couldn't hear myself think.'

It is only used for informal chatting.

You would have 'a good camp', with an old friend you hadn't seen in a long while.

You wouldn't do it in a formal interview.

Well not if you wanted the job.
Used in our family to refer to the sort of chat you had with someone if you bumped into them in the street - "they were camping in the middle of the pavement, you couldn't get past".
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Rack o theye twist o gob instead of using a spirit level
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