lost dialect

[firth_dawn]

ive really enjoyed reading all your posts. ive not heard of most of them only one i recall is apples and pears meaning stairs.

[cmonstanley]

remember when i came down on holiday to blackburn well [visit relatives] they used to call heavy metal people knebs .sumthin like that

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by cashman

paris n i were nattering last night n she said i'm Vexed at you, lol we both started laughing n said my mam used to say that to me, aint heard that for donkeys years, anyone still say/hear it.

Someone will get vexed if you've been oining them

[cashman]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Someone will get vexed if you've been oining them

ya got it in 1, but have ya heard/used the word lately, i aint heard it for years.

[cashman]

one me grandad used to say when agreeing with someone was yahndeed, dont know if that will sound like it.

[MargaretR]

Thal nairn flummax me - mi dad allus talked broad.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Thal nairn flummax me - mi dad allus talked broad.

well ya sure got him baffeled.

[MargaretR]

Hi were a tackler 'n feckled in t' mill
Mi mum were a weaver and never got fetched up - good un
I used to go t' mill after scewel and kiss shuttles fer 'er.

[steeljack]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Hi were a tackler 'n feckled in t' mill
Mi mum were a weaver and never got fetched up - good un
I used to go t' mill after scewel and kiss shuttles fer 'er.

re kissing the shuttle , I've never been sure what that was , one explanation I was told was , a weaver did it when she was sucking the thread out from the bobbin through the hole in the shuttle before putting it into the loom , the other thing I heard was it was when the shuttle used to 'jump/fly' out of the loom and hit someone , considering they were metal tipped I supposed they could and did cause a few injuries , I think the saying goes back to the days of old Lancashire looms and phased out when Northrop and other automatic looms were introduced .

[Alan Gilmartin]

Gee Steeley, you seem to know your shuttles & Looms. Your mum must have been a weaver.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Kissing the shuttle was sucking the thread through. You poked the thread from one side and then had to put your mouth onto it as if you were giving it a kiss and then suck and the end of the thread would be sucked through the hole.

[Lilly]

Originally Posted by cashman

one me grandad used to say when agreeing with someone was yahndeed, dont know if that will sound like it.

Does that mean 'Yes, Indeed'?

[Lilly]

Originally Posted by cashman

paris n i were nattering last night n she said i'm Vexed at you, lol we both started laughing n said my mam used to say that to me, aint heard that for donkeys years, anyone still say/hear it.

I say the word vexed quite often. With a hubby and two young kids I am quite often vexed.

Seriously, I do use the word. I've been told I use quite a few old words / sayings for my age. I've been told so many times that I remind people of their Granny.

That's due to the words and phrases I use rather than the way I look......I hope.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Lilly

Does that mean 'Yes, Indeed'?

it does Lilly.

[Wynonie Harris]

Was talking to my mum about the bloke Cashy and myself were discussing in another thread who'd been banned from every pub on Blackburn Road. She said, "his mum was a nice woman, but when I used to see her round town with all her shopping, she always looked powfagged," Not heard that for years!