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Post by Humph on Jul 17, 2024 14:36:01 GMT
One I used to hear in Northern Ireland to describe a set of circumstances that had gone awry was “up the left”.
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Post by Humph on Jul 17, 2024 14:39:12 GMT
My wife’s family (Cheshire) use “nesh” to describe someone unnecessarily fearful or complaining. As in “stop moaning about it being cold, you’re just being nesh”.
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Post by EspadaIII on Jul 17, 2024 15:17:51 GMT
My wife’s family (Cheshire) use “nesh” to describe someone unnecessarily fearful or complaining. As in “stop moaning about it being cold, you’re just being nesh”. Yes - very North West that one. I used to think it was a Yiddishism until I was a bit older and wiser. |
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Post by bromptonaut on Jul 20, 2024 10:34:53 GMT
Mrs B was raised in Newcastle under Lyme and introduced me to 'nesh'.
Her Mother's family were Birmingham/Black Country and had a few:
All around the Wrekin - taking a circuitous route but might also apply to TL:DR type replies
Black over Bill's Mother's - it's cloudy and looks like rain
Wilcoxed your buttons - shirt, cardigan or jacket with buttons in the wrong buttonholes.
As a Yorkshireman I'd immediately recognise a ginnel via Leeds born/raised Mum. Not sure Dad from Rochdale would have used it.
I also love the Scots 'outwith' was in outside of. Simple Youth Hostels in Scotland allowed insulated sleeping bags rather than cotton or (shudder) nylon and blankets outwith the summer season.
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Post by Humph on Jul 20, 2024 11:08:17 GMT
Another Scots one. Gadgie - Bloke, usually a bit of a ruffian.
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Post by bpg on Jul 20, 2024 14:31:24 GMT
Many of the Scottish saying I recognise from growing up in Northumberland though could also probably be attributed to having a Glaswegian father.
One that springs to mind is deek or deko, to take a look.
My first wife was from Lincolnshire, she used nesh to mean soft as in if someone complained of being cold they were nesh.
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Post by Humph on Jul 20, 2024 15:32:09 GMT
My father used to refer to his non-work or casual clothes as his “duds”, but I’m not sure if that was just him.
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Post by bpg on Jul 21, 2024 6:25:38 GMT
Canny is another word with dual meaning.
Canny with money or as a description of a person, wiley, crafty or cunning, a derogatory term.
Or, canny good being seen as a positive.
In Northumberland it was more used as a positive, in Scotland I've heard it used more in the negative.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2024 8:32:31 GMT
I've more often heard canny used to mean pretty, as in canny lass, from my Northumbrian family. Although they're from Ashington so probably don't know what they're talking aboot.
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Post by Humph on Jul 22, 2024 8:41:36 GMT
“Magic” to describe anything pleasing. E.G. “Efter the grass wis cut, the gerden looked magic ken”.
Magic can of course be substituted by “braw”.
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Post by Humph on Aug 26, 2024 19:36:12 GMT
Just been listening to an advertisement where the narrator managed to pronounce the words sure, more, store and your as if they rhymed with yaw. While concurrently coping with the r sound perfectly well in insurance and renewal.
Odd to my ear.
Hey ho.
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Post by bpg on Aug 27, 2024 5:49:38 GMT
Yarkin' or Howkin' to take a severe beating.
I ripped my new jeans, wor mother went mental when she saw the state and give us a right yarkin'.
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Post by Humph on Aug 29, 2024 12:45:34 GMT
Isn’t it interesting that if we are going to the airport, we would get “in” a car to get there and then get “on” an aeroplane. However, if we had chosen to make the journey by train, we’d have got “on” that too. If it was necessary to use a lift at the airport, we’d get “in” that I suppose, but if we’d used the escalator instead, we’d have been “on” that, which seems reasonable enough doesn’t it, until we had to accept getting “on” a shuttle bus to get from the car park.
Think I’d rather be in a plane than on it, given the choice.
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Post by Humph on Aug 29, 2024 12:57:22 GMT
…and if a package is sent out for delivery by van, it will have been “in” a van, but if it arrived by lorry, it would have been “on” it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2024 13:05:03 GMT
I think it comes from ships. Big things for mass transport (of people or goods) which came after ships became "ons". Little things for personal transport are "ins", as you would have been in a horse drawn carriage (if you were posh and not the driver).
Just thinking aloud, out of off of the top of my head.
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