Local phrases and sayings

[slowmotion]

Fair words butter no parsnips.

 

[DRM]

Perhaps this is a national saying, parent to child, Get down from there,and don't come running to me if you fall off and break your leg !

 

[classic33]

Nobbutfairtomiddlin, the closest you'll get to an honest reply if you ask how is someone.

 

[DaveReading]

Mony a mickle maks a muckle.

 

[Katherine]

I've picked up quite a few different words and phrases since living in Salford .
A few of my favourites are

A washing machine is a washer .

Those fluffy seeds that blow around are called sugars here whereas when I grew up in Hampshire we called them fairies .

The verb to bottom means to clean a room from top to bottom .

"I've put the curtains in the washer and I've got the vac out to bottom our kid's room ".

 

[Dave 123]

When I moved to Devon my mum came to visit.

My father in law asked my mum as to my whereabouts "where Dave be to?"

It took her a moment to work out what was being asked.

 

[Dave 123]

Another set of Devonisms

I'm- I am
Weem- We are
Youm- You are
Theym- They are
Us'll- We will

 

[Proto]

I told my French chum "Come on, get your skates on"

She was very disappointed when we ended up in the pub.

 

[raleighnut]

It's not just yorkshire people, in a mixed group you will find the same piece of bread is called many different things dependent upon the location, Lancastrians call it a barm, others would call it a bun, roll, bap or bread cake

All just other names for a Cob.

 

[pawl]

This may have been done before, but...

Prompted by a BBC website article

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37550178

So one from my Wirral youth is 'cracking the flags' meaning it's very hot, it cracks the flagstones.

What can you add?

There's more runny noses about than straw hats
Cold weather. Le99hr The

 

[rich p]

[QUOTE 4544852, member: 259"]We used "ginnel" for a passageway in Notts, as well as "jitty".[/QUOTE]
It's a twitten in Sussex

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Perhaps this is a national saying, parent to child, Get down from there,and don't come running to me if you fall off and break your leg !

Lots of what has gone before are pretty national but people either don't travel far from their birthplace to hear their near neighbours saying it or are rather proprietorial over common parlance

 

[shouldbeinbed]

When someone is not quite "with it" they're "as bright as a blackout", not a full shillin', not the sharpest tool in the box. about as much use as a chocolate fireguard, about as much use as a one legged man in an arse kicking contest.

Thick as a dockers butty

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Wherever I go I always hear 'f*ck off you weirdo'.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Bread cake here. I refuse to acknowledge all other terms as a bread cake is a bread cake and nowt else.

I'll introduce you to my Oldham born and bre(a)d wife. Even within the environs of Lancashire, Oldhamers of my acquaintance seem obsessive about the name for flattish, roundish bread products.

For Mrs SB its a Muffin or she'll start getting the kindling ready for the Sunday burning of the heretics in the town square