General Chat

yes sylvia i can remember the step being donkey stoned,it was one of the most important thing's in my grandmother's routine,she used to say it showed what her house was like,

i can't have people thinking my house is like a midden she used to say,

also remember her saying don't be so nowty when i was in a bad mood.

I remember my G grandma sending me to the shop for a bottle of relish, I had no idea what it was so went all the way back to ask her so I got it right.

Caz

I was brought up in Lancaster and we used a lot of the Oldham terminology.

Now we live not too far from Oldham, so haven't needed to change the things I say!

You missed out

mithered - worried.

We found the terms for bread strange when we moved here. In Lancaster we had plain teacakes and currant teacakes. Moving first to North Manchester we found barm cakes and muffins. Don't have barm cakes here, but still have muffins.

People in Lancaster would use the term 'every Preston Guild' for something that happened infrequently, Preston Guild being every 20 years, this year as it happens.

My uncle retired to Bournemouth, and when we visited he told a neighbour that he only saw us every Preston Guild, the neighbour was totally bemused!

Being from a farm,

kytle- jacket (for work)
midden- muck heap
baggins- lunch

And that's another thing

We had breakfast, baggins(elevenses), dinner, tea, and supper.

How we Glaswegians call things:

Pend- Alleyway
Close - Tenement Building
Piece- Sandwich
Wean- Child (called a Bairn in Edinburgh and the East)
Poke- paper bag
Crabbit or Greetin' Faced - Bad Tempered
Boggin' or Manky- Dirty
Mingin"- Smelly
Sook- Someone who sucks up for attention

They use boggin' and mingin' in Lancashire too.

I forgot about the Glaswegian word to describe any flavour of fizzy pop....
GINGER!

In the north east

a young child - a bairn
the end of the loaf - the healey/heeley
a piece was usually a piece of bread with jam or sugar. Usually given to stave off children's hunger when they were playing (as they did then out in the street)

Vera

Sharron we called ALL marbles Alley's .....


Joan .....I had bread & hot milk & sugar for breakfast we called them, Bread Slops !!
and I loved it .....cant think why ..LOL

Mind you we HAD nothing else ... :-S

Bread rolls were Tuffs ....

A spoonful of cocoa & it was Special Milk sop
:-)

lonning -- lane

marra --mate

mazer-- a wonder

muggles --marbles

"Wor Bobby's a mazer when e's playin muggles wir e's marra doon the lonning" :-D ;-)

we used minging as well ...... but my grandmother used it for whining

"stop yer mingin' child"!



sugar piece or sugar butty ...... slice of bread with sugar on it


the end of the loaf (or crust) ............... the heel


our main meal was at lunch time, and we called it dinner

the evening meal (at around 6 pm) was tea or supper


I lived in residence at university, and had to get used to dinner being the evening meal



Over here, starting in Texas and continuing here, we have ....

....... breakfast, coffee, lunch, tea, dinner, and maybe a snack at bedtime.

I think the meals are called the same all over North America

Sharron
I lived in Liverpool till I was 4 and a half then moved to Hampshire. I think it was Barley in Liverpool when you needed to stop mid-game to pull your socks up or wipe your nose. In south Hampshire it was definitely Kremoes. Not sure how you would spell it.

i thought of some more,

owt--anything.
nowt--nothing.
keck's trouser's.
bowt--without.

Oh yes, maiden was the clothes horse that opened like a book. We had a pulley, too, which was the one hanging from the ceiling. You can still get those and they are still made of cast iron with wooden slats.

My grandmothers were Gran and Nanna although Nanna preferred to be called Grandma because we had been posh going back in the family. My mum was Grandma and now I am too.

If you told on someone in Liverpool in the 50's you were clatting on them.

My Mum is from Manchester......moved to Liverpool when she got married, she has lost most of her slang but it stills there now and again... :-)

Mardy - Sulking

Ice Lolly - Lolly Ice (In Liverpool) ;-)

SueCar
I'd forgotten that we had breathers in our game and called them Kreamoes (sp.? ) but you're right... That's what we called them not far from Portsmouth too.

When my brother b. Hampshire married a girl from Leicester we learned some different words for things.

We made a pot of tea.... she mashed a pot of tea.
We ate crumpets... her's were pikelets
We washed up...she did the pots.

Here in Kent a packed lunch prepared for a worker is a pack-up.
If you miss the alarm and sleep in( as I would call it) they say they over lay.

Gwyn

I just thought of this horrible old Glaswegian word ( possibly all of Scotland for all I know)
WINCHIN'- Kissing, snogging or dating

This word must be outdated, as I hadn't heard it used since at least the 1970's,
Very recently it was used by a friend who has lived in OZ for about 40yrs!

we mashed the tea in Oldham

made the door (locked up at night)

made the fire (built up the fire)

I remember embarrassing my Mum in the 80's in the Hypermarket by the deli counter asking her if she wanted to buy anything for me Dad's carryin' out. That is, his packed lunch in posh.