One for t Yorkshire Folk

[Deleted member 26715]

As a lad back in Leeds there was a word used as a time out in tag games that I decided was phaonites, simply because it sounded a bit like pharaohs. I think it's usually spelled something more like ''fainites'' in written down language. I've never heard it once in London but I was surprised to hear people in the primary school playground shouting ''pax'' to the same effect. Sadly, kali (again, I don't know how it was spelled - it wasn't a written down word but it was pronounced like K-Lie) also went downmarket and became sherbet. Then I noticed cobbled streets down here which I'd never seen before and decided that London was definitely behind the times as well as downmarket.

Phaonites/fainites is not familiar, for us it was tig, or tiggy your on, K-lie for sherbert is,

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I'll counter your Brenden Cocker with

 

[Venod]

Phaonites/fainites is not familiar, for us it was tig, or tiggy your on, K-lie for sherbert is,

Same here never heard or know how to pronounce "Phaonites"

 

[Oldfentiger]

As a lad back in Leeds there was a word used as a time out in tag games that I decided was phaonites, simply because it sounded a bit like pharaohs. I think it's usually spelled something more like ''fainites'' in written down language. I've never heard it once in London but I was surprised to hear people in the primary school playground shouting ''pax'' to the same effect. Sadly, kali (again, I don't know how it was spelled - it wasn't a written down word but it was pronounced like K-Lie) also went downmarket and became sherbet. Then I noticed cobbled streets down here which I'd never seen before and decided that London was definitely behind the times as well as downmarket.

Time out in tag games??
Pax??

Bunch o' northern pansies.
Never had such a thing in the Fens. If you were knackered you got trampled.

 

[rugby bloke]

Yorkshire: " 'appen us 'av us snap ?"
Translation: "Shall we have lunch ?"
Learnt that one when I was having my corners knocked off by working on building sites during my student holidays.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

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Spot on!

@classic33 I meant the south of the Yorkshire empire

The 'Peoples Republic of South Yorkshire'?

Have we mentioned t'Olympics yet?

If Yorkshire had been a country, at the 2012 Olympics, it would have ranked 11th in the medal tables

Y can all as tell a posh lass frum Barnsley. Er tattoos r spelt reet tha noz .

Posh...… Barnsley?
Unless it's Cawthorne?

 

[craigwend]

Beaten to it.

You've also got the North Riding, West Riding and East Riding versions.

And local variants within each Riding ask t'@Shaun. http://www.greengates.karoo.net/hull/speak.html

 

[classic33]

And local variants within each Riding ask t'@Shaun. http://www.greengates.karoo.net/hull/speak.html

Aye, West West Riding differes to East West Riding and Southern West Riding.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Aye, West West Riding differes to East West Riding and Southern West Riding.

A few years ago, I'd been riding in the Holme area. maybe around Hade Edge, got a bit lost, stopped to ask an old chap directions
I had to listen very carefully due to his local dialect

 

[Venod]

Just being on Strava, there's a headline that I read as

"Try Summat for free"

I thought what brilliant marketing aimed at Yorkshire folk known for their tightness, then I realised it says

"Try Summit for free"

 

[Asa Post]

As a lad back in Leeds there was a word used as a time out in tag games that I decided was phaonites, simply because it sounded a bit like pharaohs. I think it's usually spelled something more like ''fainites'' in written down language. I've never heard it once in London but I was surprised to hear people in the primary school playground shouting ''pax'' to the same effect. Sadly, kali (again, I don't know how it was spelled - it wasn't a written down word but it was pronounced like K-Lie) also went downmarket and became sherbet. Then I noticed cobbled streets down here which I'd never seen before and decided that London was definitely behind the times as well as downmarket.

Having read the wonderful work of Iona and Peter Opie I thought Fainites was a southern word, with Yorkshire being a Kings or Barley area. However, it seems that things aren't as simple as they were. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truce_term gives more information.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

"Try Summit for free"

Which to Yanks means give me your credit card details before you can have it for free, they can crack on & do one.

 

[rich p]

Having read the wonderful work of Iona and Peter Opie I thought Fainites was a southern word, with Yorkshire being a Kings or Barley area. However, it seems that things aren't as simple as they were. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truce_term gives more information.

We used fainites in Brighton in the 50s and 60s. Maybe they still do but I'm barred from playgrounds ...

I never saw it written and I always thought it was vainites.

 

[NorthernDave]

Aye, West West Riding differes to East West Riding and Southern West Riding.

Heavy Woollen District?

 

[classic33]

Heavy Woollen District?

Possible, Bradford was the Wool Capital of the world.

Though head down Tod way and it differs from nearer town.