Colloquialisms & Slang

[Alex321]

It's Shanksy’s where I grew up although it's not used at all by anyone under forty there nowadays.

Your post was the first time I had seen Shanksy's. I suspect it is quite a small geographic area you are talking about.

 

[matticus]

Another vote for Shanks' here. I admit I never thought of the connection with legs as in Longshanks!

 

[PK99]

Your post was the first time I had seen Shanksy's. I suspect it is quite a small geographic area you are talking about.

1 Shank's
2 Shanks's
3 Shanksy's

1 & 2 Appear in online dictionaries of colloquialisms
3 Does not, and looks to me like a wrong transcription of the spoken #2

 

[DaveReading]

1 Shank's
2 Shanks's
3 Shanksy's

1 & 2 Appear in online dictionaries of colloquialisms
3 Does not, and looks to me like a wrong transcription of the spoken #2

Exactly. There is no difference in pronunciation between 2 and 3.

 

[FishFright]

Your post was the first time I had seen Shanksy's. I suspect it is quite a small geographic area you are talking about.

North Staffordshire so not that extensive

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It's Shanksy’s where I grew up although it's not used at all by anyone under forty there nowadays.

Sounds like you got the Chinese whispers version.

 

[cycling_eejit]

She'd ate ya without salt, that wan = She's an angry woman

 

[siadwell]

In Sheffield men calling men love and women calling men ducky.

In The Potteries, "duck" is used to address both sexes by both sexes. The jury is out on the origin:
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/people-stoke-trent-call-each-5779469

 

[Baldy]

In The Potteries, "duck" is used to address both sexes by both sexes. The jury is out on the origin:
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/people-stoke-trent-call-each-5779469

Same in Leicester, Darby, Nottingham area.