Colloquial local expressions.

[oldwheels]

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[oldwheels]

Interesting for me because my friends live on a Scottish-built MFV (motor Fishing Vessel) in Sandwich Marina, Kent. In fact, they've lived on the same wooden boat for well over 50 years. Both mid 80s now. Your photo prompted me to phone them but there's no answer, I hope they're OK.

Not Ian and Jane by any chance?

 

[Grant Fondo]

Bristolians append an "L" to words ending in a vowel

And Dorset! I'd often pop out in the boat with my windcheatel orn

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

When I was a teacher/technician at a Primary school just down the road
The Year 6 teacher always had a lot of problems getting local kids to write chimney without a B

They said - and therefore (in their minds) wrote it as "chimbley"

As we are close to Liverpool there are a lot of the general Scouse things
for example my wife is not capable of referring to a close relative without the word "our" in front of it
e.g. Saw Our John on Tesco
Naturally a lot of people shop at "The Asda"
and there is a shop called "Home and Bargain" - which is what it was originally called and still is round here

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The quines and loons fae my part of the world greet each other thusly -

"Foos yer doos"?

To which the response can be either

"Aye peckin"

or "peckin awa"

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The Spanish version of which is probaby "que pasa"

 

[Profpointy]

+1 for mitching off in Cardiff
Need your daps for PE
Carrying clecs, telling tales or grassing up.

I believe "daps" are worn in Birmingham too

I'd forgotten "cario clecs" from my time in Carmerthenshire

 

[Jotheboat]

Not Ian and Jane by any chance?

No.
Not very cycle-related, but this photo is them behind us sharing a lock in France in 2010.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Nithered (LIncolnshire?) Cold, to the point of shivering

Mardy (West Yorkshire) sullen/sulky

Brussen (West Yorkshire) showing off, can also be used for (slightly) aggressive/in your face

 

[Dave7]

I’ve always said barmpot

I might be the only person that didn't know this but (I googled it) a barm pot was a pot for storing yeast. It somehow came to mean 'an idiot' and the Scots made it into bampot.

 

[Alex321]

Nithered (LIncolnshire?) Cold, to the point of shivering

Mardy (West Yorkshire) sullen/sulky

Brussen (West Yorkshire) showing off, can also be used for (slightly) aggresive/in your face

I think Mardy is fairly universal, not just West Yorkshire. I've certainly heard it here in South Wales, and my family have always used it, and expected it to be understood anywhere (though my parents were from Lancashire, which isn't all that far from West Yorks).

 

[Chris S]

I think Mardy is fairly universal, not just West Yorkshire. I've certainly heard it here in South Wales, and my family have always used it, and expected it to be understood anywhere (though my parents were from Lancashire, which isn't all that far from West Yorks).

A lot of Welsh miners migrated to Northern England in the late 19th century when the Welsh copper mining industry fell into decline.

 

[Alex321]

A lot of Welsh miners migrated to Northern England in the late 19th century when the Welsh copper mining industry fell into decline.

So you are suggesting that term may have originated in Wales, then migrated with the miners?

Very possible, I would think.

 

[Mburton1993]

I think Mardy is fairly universal, not just West Yorkshire. I've certainly heard it here in South Wales, and my family have always used it, and expected it to be understood anywhere (though my parents were from Lancashire, which isn't all that far from West Yorks).

Although I reckon mardarse rather than mardy for Greater Manchester.

 

[matticus]

I know Scottish humour is well known but I've never heard 'Bleachy crap' or 'Baw-bag'.
Anyone know the meaning?
What obscure phases are in use around where you are?

If you come across a weird scotch term, it will be one of 3 things (you can usually tell from context):
- a drunk person,
- something nice to eat, or
- the English.