regional dialects..and variations thereof..
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I met an essex girl today who mentioned the word 'frages' in the office quite a few times - apparently it means 'for a while' and it's now obvious to me after careful study from where it derives...would anyone else care to add to the list? I have a feeling that cockney words and phrases will continue to confse me over the next few weeks...
as for other dialectc i'll start you off with 'divvehnah' from geordie which means 'I don't know'
fascinating stuff IMHO...:awaits flaming:
as for other dialectc i'll start you off with 'divvehnah' from geordie which means 'I don't know'
fascinating stuff IMHO...:awaits flaming:
minimax said:
I met an essex girl today who mentioned the word 'frages' in the office quite a few times - apparently it means 'for a while' and it's now obvious to me after careful study from where it derives...would anyone else care to add to the list? I have a feeling that cockney words and phrases will continue to confse me over the next few weeks...
as for other dialectc i'll start you off with 'divvehnah' from geordie which means 'I don't know'
fascinating stuff IMHO...:awaits flaming:
yeah but no but yeah but no but your post is just so way stupid and oh my god its just not fair you being so clevoh right cos you come out with wurds right wot I never done not even herd of and dont even know wot is nuffing to do wiv it cos its just so unfair right and Pwig is not gay anyway and you are way harsh shut up and we not gonna never let you get drunk till your sick cos yuk shut up and was never my fault so get stuffed.
A few well known, and not so well known, sayings and the Potteries equivalent:
Give credit where credit is due. Gi credit weer credit is due.
When the cat's away the mice will play. Wen cats awee, mice 'll plee.
First things first. Fost things fost.
If you can't beat them, join them. If yer conna bate em, jane em.
A fool and his money are soon parted. A foo an eeze brass are soon patted.
Duck Transactions & their impact on Stoke-on-Trent.
On June the sixteenth 1960. a train spotter and a hedgehog trainer came down from Crewe to an address in Fenton in response to an advert in The Evening Sentinel for a 1953 Ford Prefect that was going for the bargain price of twenty pounds. After doing the deal, they went for some chips and happened upon a unique Potteries conversation.
"Woss want duck?"
"Giz thray sixes an' a fish duck."
"Sowt an' vinegar duck'?"
"No duck... Macks um goo cowd."
The transaction involved a quantity of fish and chips for the sum of two shillings and fourpence.
Standing agog with amazement, the intrepid pair had just witnessed a typical North Staffordshire four duck transaction. After making their own purchases, they stood eating chips in the shop and found that duck transactions were many, varied and sometimes colourful.
Spreading the word of this weird and wonderful phraseology, they made regular sorties to The Potteries accompanied by friends and curious people, visiting all kinds of establishments where people came into contact. Eventually, the train spotter, after witnessing an amazing sixteen duck transaction in a Wright's Pie shop near Stoke Station, put pen to paper and wrote a large thesis on the phenomenon. By this time. coach loads of visitors from all over the country were descending upon the Five Towns to hear it all for themselves.
That first visit to The Potteries by the train spotter all those years ago laid the foundations of The Potteries tourist industry. People now come from all over the world to stand in chip shops, newsagents and to hang around market stalls to hear this wonderful means of communication for themselves. Over the years, Wedgwood have set up a visitor centre as have The Gladstone Pottery factory and Shugborough Hall - the ancestral home of the Earl of Lichfield.
If it wasn't for the word 'duck', Alton Towers would be a rest home for gentlefolk, Bridgemere Garden World nothing more than a swamp and the head of Staffordshire County Council tourism department would be a bus conductor, but because bus conductors don't exist anymore, he probably wouldn't be anything.
"Hey up duck!! 'Ow at?"
Glossary of Terms:
Afe Crine Half Crown (Pre-decimal coin)
Back Road Toilet
Bay Chum Spiders Beecham's Powders
Bill Joe Nice Build your own house
Bow Ball
Chaise 'n' Pittles Cheese and pickles
Fow staith False Teeth
Goose low Go slow
Grain Green
Grey nice Greenhouse
Kine Slice Council house (housing rented from the local government)
Males Meals
Now tell sin Nothing else in
Rind abite Roundabout
Waite White
Woke Walk
Woss Worse
>> Edited by B17NNS on Thursday 12th January 20:05
Give credit where credit is due. Gi credit weer credit is due.
When the cat's away the mice will play. Wen cats awee, mice 'll plee.
First things first. Fost things fost.
If you can't beat them, join them. If yer conna bate em, jane em.
A fool and his money are soon parted. A foo an eeze brass are soon patted.
Duck Transactions & their impact on Stoke-on-Trent.
On June the sixteenth 1960. a train spotter and a hedgehog trainer came down from Crewe to an address in Fenton in response to an advert in The Evening Sentinel for a 1953 Ford Prefect that was going for the bargain price of twenty pounds. After doing the deal, they went for some chips and happened upon a unique Potteries conversation.
"Woss want duck?"
"Giz thray sixes an' a fish duck."
"Sowt an' vinegar duck'?"
"No duck... Macks um goo cowd."
The transaction involved a quantity of fish and chips for the sum of two shillings and fourpence.
Standing agog with amazement, the intrepid pair had just witnessed a typical North Staffordshire four duck transaction. After making their own purchases, they stood eating chips in the shop and found that duck transactions were many, varied and sometimes colourful.
Spreading the word of this weird and wonderful phraseology, they made regular sorties to The Potteries accompanied by friends and curious people, visiting all kinds of establishments where people came into contact. Eventually, the train spotter, after witnessing an amazing sixteen duck transaction in a Wright's Pie shop near Stoke Station, put pen to paper and wrote a large thesis on the phenomenon. By this time. coach loads of visitors from all over the country were descending upon the Five Towns to hear it all for themselves.
That first visit to The Potteries by the train spotter all those years ago laid the foundations of The Potteries tourist industry. People now come from all over the world to stand in chip shops, newsagents and to hang around market stalls to hear this wonderful means of communication for themselves. Over the years, Wedgwood have set up a visitor centre as have The Gladstone Pottery factory and Shugborough Hall - the ancestral home of the Earl of Lichfield.
If it wasn't for the word 'duck', Alton Towers would be a rest home for gentlefolk, Bridgemere Garden World nothing more than a swamp and the head of Staffordshire County Council tourism department would be a bus conductor, but because bus conductors don't exist anymore, he probably wouldn't be anything.
"Hey up duck!! 'Ow at?"
Glossary of Terms:
Afe Crine Half Crown (Pre-decimal coin)
Back Road Toilet
Bay Chum Spiders Beecham's Powders
Bill Joe Nice Build your own house
Bow Ball
Chaise 'n' Pittles Cheese and pickles
Fow staith False Teeth
Goose low Go slow
Grain Green
Grey nice Greenhouse
Kine Slice Council house (housing rented from the local government)
Males Meals
Now tell sin Nothing else in
Rind abite Roundabout
Waite White
Woke Walk
Woss Worse
>> Edited by B17NNS on Thursday 12th January 20:05
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