lost dialect - Page 2

garinda · 08-09-2005, 08:42

Paddy- temper tantrum.

Mard- overly emotional.

Radiogram- like an i-pod but usually six foot long.

entwisi · 08-09-2005, 10:02

Pumee stone was what you rubbed on your feet to get rid of corns and dead skin

WillowTheWhisp · 08-09-2005, 10:22

Yes. Donkey stones where what you did the step with.

slinky · 08-09-2005, 14:50

My mum and dad used to tell us to " go up the golden dancers"............meaning go UP STAIRS to bed.

Not sure why they called them the Golden Dancers???? anyone know

staggeringman · 08-09-2005, 17:58

when we where sent ta bed it was get up them apple and pears.(stairs)
go an gi coits a clean, (toilet roof outside).

WillowTheWhisp · 08-09-2005, 18:06

You cleaned your coits?????

grannyclaret · 08-09-2005, 18:24

we said donkey stone,,, but what had donkeys to do with the word?

WillowTheWhisp · 08-09-2005, 18:35

I think it had something to do with an image of a donkey on the stone.

cashman · 08-09-2005, 22:29

[QUOTE=garinda]You must have been posh, everyone else called it 'donkey stoning'.

you know me rindy i am posh ! but you are correct it was donkey stone- you have to make allowances for me age lol

Alan Gilmartin · 08-09-2005, 23:07

Donkey jacket?. Flat cap, (a Ratter ). Coits, Roofs over outside tiolets and coal shed.

pendy · 04-10-2005, 17:45

I remember being told to "get up them dancers" by my Uncle Jimmy - our's weren't golden dancers though, we must have been poor.

lettie · 04-10-2005, 18:27

We were poor too and just had plain owd 'dancers'

My Nan used to come out with some crackers...

"You gormless b*gger, tha's getten an oil in tha frock."

"What's ee skennin at?"

Margaret Pilkington · 04-10-2005, 18:39

in our house going to bed was 'going to blanket fair'......we emptied the tin bath with a ladin can.......and the water for the bath we had was heated up in't copper.....an t'copper were lit with a spill......and if you weren't careful lighting the copper you could blow your eyebrows off.

jamesicus · 04-10-2005, 21:21

We used to call the Leeds & Liverpool canal the cut. Thus:

"Ast' bin swimmin int' cut?" (have you been swimming in the canal?).

BTW, we didn't buy any donkey stones at the shop that I can remember -- our Rag & Bone man used to give them out as payment for stuff given him.

James

jamesicus · 04-10-2005, 21:25

We used to call an item of clothing (dress, shirt or jacket, etc.)"clout". Thus:

"ne'er cast a clout 'till May goes out"