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31-03-2013, 17:57
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Old sayings
When I was a child I lived with my Grand-parents,f I asked my grandma a question that she didn't want to answer,she would say "It's Hetty Kitesring from Bash"(Baxenden) I have tried over the years to find out where the saying came from,I can't really imagine grandma making it up,can anybody throw any light on it?
Regards Irene Bainbridge (nee Davies)
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31-03-2013, 18:04
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Re: Old sayings
Perhaps it means 'I don't know and I don't care, stop bothering me you infernally precocious child'?
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31-03-2013, 18:15
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Re: Old sayings
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Perhaps it means 'I don't know and I don't care, stop bothering me you infernally precocious child'?
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Or words to that effect
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31-03-2013, 20:47
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Re: Old sayings
Never I was an ANGEL
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01-04-2013, 04:25
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Re: Old sayings
Can't help you on that one!
You've reminded me though-when I was young my Grandmother used to say something that I've never heard before or since.. Say if you had a gadget or toy that she thought wasn't any good she'd say ;
'Ah you don't want that-It's neither nowt nor sommat!'
What that meant I've no clue-but I carry on her legacy by still saying it.
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01-04-2013, 08:14
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Re: Old sayings
If we had some cream we could have strawberries and cream, if we had some strawberries.
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01-04-2013, 09:19
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Re: Old sayings
If the grown ups were talking, and we asked who they were talking about it was always 'Icky, the fire bobby' or 'Lady Lace-Holes'....and if we asked what something was we were told it was 'lay o'ers fer meddlers, and crutches fer lame ducks'....if we asked how old a grown up was we were told 'as old as his tongue and younger than his teeth'.
I'm sure if I dredge my memory, I will think of more, but that's enough to be going on with.
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01-04-2013, 12:51
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Re: Old sayings
What about Ginny Green Teeth?
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01-04-2013, 13:53
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Re: Old sayings
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What about Ginny Green Teeth?
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Wasn't that someone who'd come after you if you'd been naughty? Owd Jenny Greenteeth?
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01-04-2013, 14:03
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Re: Old sayings
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If the grown ups were talking, and we asked who they were talking about it was always 'Icky, the fire bobby' or 'Lady Lace-Holes'....and if we asked what something was we were told it was 'lay o'ers fer meddlers, and crutches fer lame ducks'....if we asked how old a grown up was we were told 'as old as his tongue and younger than his teeth'.
I'm sure if I dredge my memory, I will think of more, but that's enough to be going on with.
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This is one I remember ... with my gran it was "'Icky, the fire bobby from Knuzden" ... Cashy should be able to translate it into accurate Lancashire , it's beyond me now, eh.
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01-04-2013, 16:37
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Re: Old sayings
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Wasn't that someone who'd come after you if you'd been naughty? Owd Jenny Greenteeth?
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I remember being told that if I went near the canal, and told my children the same saying.
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01-04-2013, 16:51
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Re: Old sayings
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I remember being told that if I went near the canal, and told my children the same saying.
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Don't forget the boggarts in Mercer Park ... and those creatures (I can't remember their name) whose feet were on backwards According to my grandma Slater, there were some living in the paint works.
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01-04-2013, 17:25
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Re: Old sayings
'If you sit with your back to the fire, your blood will dry up!!!!'
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01-04-2013, 17:51
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Re: Old sayings
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I remember being told that if I went near the canal, and told my children the same saying.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Greenteeth
There's the connection with water, claytonx, I don't remember that.
Just 'Owd Jenny Greenteeth
Cumin wi a knife'.
Last edited by Gordon Booth; 01-04-2013 at 17:57.
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02-04-2013, 10:44
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Re: Old sayings
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I was told that Jinny Greenteeth lived in the lodge behind Bullough's yard. Antley lodge? so can associate with the water connection thing
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