General Chat

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

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

They use boggin' and mingin' in Lancashire too.

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

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.

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

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.

Martin ..................


I had to deliberately remove Oldham'isms when we moved to Texas just after our marriage, 45 years ago next month!

Some of them couldn't even understand English, let alone Oldham!


I have often confused people over here by saying "ee, tha's got to go oop ginnel and rahnd 't back o' th'ouse" .... or approximation therefore!


I'd forgotten many of the others until you posted them! Like croft ....... I'd completely forgotten that one!



We lived in a typical Oldham red brick row house with the front door opening right onto the pavement ................. the front door led into a very small hall, and then there was another door into the "front room". We always called that little hall the "vestibule" ................... and I have been told by some that must mean we were "posh". Not so! Everyone I knew called ti the vestibule.


Do you remember the "language of the doors"?

If the front door was closed, no-one was in

If the front door was open but the inner door was closed, people were in but did not want visitors

If both doors were open, then visitors were welcome ......... but knock on the front door first.


Did your mother stone the front step and the flag (first flagstone of the pavement)?

Mine did it every week .... she got the donkey stone from the rag and bone man.




sylvia

We called those big marbles alleys. I think some people called the little ones that.

NORTHEAST SHROPSHIRE
ME GANNIE, GRANDMOTHER.
GRANDA GRANDAD

NANA NAN' NANNY
THE CUT, ALLEYWAY
SANDSHOES PUMPS

MA , DA MAM DAD MUM, DAD

TAFFIE TOFFEE

well sylvia i now live on the norfolk coast,i moved here in the 1970s,
sometimes when i use a oldham saying people just look,i then have to explain what i mean,

plimsoles --pumps.
trousers--pant's.
underwear-knicker's.
raining-bouncing down,
tater ash--potato's ,onion & mince simmersd slowly.
piece of waste land--croft,
large brick--jokker,

the brain cell's are working overtime at the moment.

Martyn


I'm from Oldham as well :-D :-D :-D

born in Glod'ick

OH is from Liverpool and I am from Essex

He will call
crusty rolls.....cobs
Baps or soft flat rolls....Barms
Clothes horse....maiden
Crumpets....pikelets

I am trying to get him to talk proper with his pronunciation of Book ,Look ect...he will get there one day :-D

you cross your fingers so you can't be caught because you are having a bit of a breather.
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'Skinchies' in Geordie Land :-D

Sharron I think we used to used the word Squibbs. In Hampshire.

My Kentish Granddad when I was a child

, “You kip running crass and crass that I qugyou bed till I be sick o’ seeing on ye.”... when we were playing in his veg garden ...qugyou's = onions

“They taters are lauible ornary,” meaning that the potatoes were inferior.

You know when you are playing chase-he or tag-he on high or,indeed,kiss chase, and you cross your fingers so you can't be caught because you are having a bit of a breather.

I know a lot of people call it finites but we called it squibs or squibsies in our village.

Now,I don't know if that was a name peculiar to our village or if it come to us with the children from the north and the Welsh vallies who came in with the Land Settlement Association.

Outdoor = Off Licence

Cut = Canal

Blart = Cry

Pumps = Gymshoes

Island now you got me thinking brain gone dead I always thought Baps wer epart of the female anatomy

Sandshoes in the North East

I don't remember boiling bread sugar and milk but I do remember sugar on bread, soft boiled egg mashed with butter and bread and salmon also mashed with vinegar and I think bread added and we used to make our own 'taffee'.

Vera