General Chat

this is what we called thing's growing up in oldham lancashire,

ginnel--alleyway.
maiden--clothes horse.
brew--cup of tea.
dobbies--roundabout,(child's ride).
fow--ugly.
fly--someone quick to answer back.
nazzy--bad tempered.
just a few that spring to mind ,what saying's do you have for certain thing's

if I remember rightly

simmit was vest
ganzie was jumper/sweater
cowie par was use of left hand
flattener was dampening somewhat's spirits
sly cake - a pastry with sweet mincemeat
flat cake and baps - types of bread

Vera

does anyone remember bread,sugar & milk boiled in a pan,

we used to call this pobbies,don't ask me why.

we found it strange moving from south to midlands they call things different than we did

Alleyway is a Jitty
drainpipes = spouting
roll =bap

will add as I think of them

Baps in the Midlands Dawnie? I know they have batches and cobs - bread rolls

Moving from Hampshire to Essex to Gloucester to Bedford when kids were young.

Shoes for PE.
Plimpsoles in Hampshire and Essex
Daps in Gloucester
Gym shoes in Bedfordshire edit: Seeing Just Ginnie's post they may have been pumps, sounds familiar but can't remember.

twitten - alleyway

firk- scratch

basketman- blackbeetle

dumbledolly- bumblebee

threadle- thread

yow (rhymes with low)-ewe

trow (also rhymes with low)- trough

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

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

Outdoor = Off Licence

Cut = Canal

Blart = Cry

Pumps = Gymshoes

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.

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.

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

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

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

Martyn


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

born in Glod'ick

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.

NORTHEAST SHROPSHIRE
ME GANNIE, GRANDMOTHER.
GRANDA GRANDAD

NANA NAN' NANNY
THE CUT, ALLEYWAY
SANDSHOES PUMPS

MA , DA MAM DAD MUM, DAD

TAFFIE TOFFEE

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

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