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Old 03-09-2016, 20:15   #1
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What does YON mean????

Despite supporting Stanley for over a decade, I'm still to understand all the local slang.

Can someone kindly explain what yon means?

My best mate Cashman likes to use it (alot!).
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Old 03-09-2016, 20:45   #2
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You serious? Quite simple - if something's over yon, it means it's over there. Or if someone says yon Mon it means that person.
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Old 03-09-2016, 21:28   #3
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You serious? Quite simple - if something's over yon, it means it's over there. Or if someone says yon Mon it means that person.
Eh Dav di has covered it pretty well, no big deal as in 60s there were a few words of scouse i' was knackered wi.trouble is me memorys getting knackered now n i cant remember what they were, ok la. or i woulda asked yeh,
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Old 04-09-2016, 07:51   #4
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always one who,s in favoir of keeping local words and phrases alive. local news should be given by a person with a local dialect. can get you in trouble though as one thing can at times mean another in some parts of the country.
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Old 04-09-2016, 08:45   #5
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Old 04-09-2016, 09:08   #6
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Despite supporting Stanley for over a decade, I'm still to understand all the local slang.

Can someone kindly explain what yon means?

My best mate Cashman likes to use it (alot!).

As Yonmon I could go off on one of my convoluted dissertations at this point Dav.....and although sorely tempted...I'll control myself !.

Sufficient to say that a reasonable translation of 'Yonmon' would read thus...

' That gentleman over there ! '.....which, I suppose makes me that gentleman over there !.

Nuff sed theer lad !.

ON STANLEY.....ON TO GREATER THINGS !!.
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Old 04-09-2016, 10:47   #7
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The Oxford dictionary definition is: yon - definition of yon in English from the Oxford dictionary

yon
Pronunciation: /jɒn/
literary or dialect

determine r& adverb
Yonder; that:
[as determiner]: there’s some big ranches yon side of the Sierra

pronoun
Yonder person or thing: what do you make of yon?

Origin

Old English geon, of Germanic origin; related to German jener 'that one'.
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The Oxford dictionary definition is: yon - definition of yon in English from the Oxford dictionary

yon
Pronunciation: /jɒn/
literary or dialect

determine r& adverb
Yonder; that:
[as determiner]: there’s some big ranches yon side of the Sierra

pronoun
Yonder person or thing: what do you make of yon?

Origin

Old English geon, of Germanic origin; related to German jener 'that one'.
Aye but dictionarys an Dav dont go together,
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The Oxford dictionary definition is: yon - definition of yon in English from the Oxford dictionary

yon
Pronunciation: /jɒn/
literary or dialect

determine r& adverb
Yonder; that:
[as determiner]: there’s some big ranches yon side of the Sierra

pronoun
Yonder person or thing: what do you make of yon?

Origin

Old English geon, of Germanic origin; related to German jener 'that one'.
So erudite Yerself !.... I am impressed !.
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Aye but dictionarys an Dav dont go together,
O.E.D. ? ..... Q.E.D. again ?.
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O.E.D. ? ..... Q.E.D. again ?.
No you demonstrate, i dont do it.
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No you demonstrate, i dont do it.
It is in the past tense so it has already been done.

"Yonder peasant who is he" just old English back to the topic.
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Old 04-09-2016, 12:13   #13
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To keep this 'on topic' , one of my favourite dialect words, which I've never heard outside of Accy and rarely hear it there now, is 'punce'.
But maybe some of the long ball aficionados in the moaners' stand still use it.
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Old 04-09-2016, 12:23   #14
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To keep this 'on topic' , one of my favourite dialect words, which I've never heard outside of Accy and rarely hear it there now, is 'punce'.
But maybe some of the long ball aficionados in the moaners' stand still use it.
Yeh wont hear it down yon, they cant speak english.
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what does punce mean?
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