AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
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Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
Don't know about dialect but a favourite phrase might be " Ow much!". 
winjim
Smash the cistern
Mate, I can see Derbyshire from the road at the back of my house. One slip of a draughtsman's pen and we'd all be in the midlands.
I may have posted this before but the above phrase reminded me of work, we inhereted a few southerners from Littlebrook workshop that shut down, so some transfered to us at Ferrybridge.
One of them was working on a large gearbox that drives the coalmill in a power station, it had various pockets in the casting one of which was filled with oil that shouldn't have been there.
The foreman said to him " get oil owt t oil " the look on the southern guys face was priceless, he had no idea what he meant.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
I thought of that but discounted it because didn't see it as having any great differences of usage from one region to another.
Its the way Yorkshire folk pronounce couldn't as in "you **** make it up"
...strong i'th'arm weak i'th'ed.
craigwend
Grimpeur des terrains plats
In the beginning there were Three Ridings and none of them had 'South' in...
Ps remember where @Shaun is from
http://www.greengates.karoo.net/hull/speak.html
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classic33
Leg End Member
And there's part of Scotland in the Southern West Riding!In the beginning there were Three Ridings and none of them had 'South' in...
Ps remember where @Shaun is from
http://www.greengates.karoo.net/hull/speak.html
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I used to get my fruit and veg from a stall at Hebden Bridge market. The stallholder was from Leeds. We used to get on well, and he'd often put things that I liked to one side if they were selling out before I got there. I was very surprised when I arrived one week and he held up a handful of garlic and said "I've put these to one side for you, love"... That felt very odd to me, raised in the Midlands!
HMS_Dave
Grand Old Lady
I've been over this before, but being from a mining town in town north of Birmingham, i instantly recognise and use some of them phrases and dialects. We mostly had miners from the North East and Scotland (My Grandad was Scottish) but we had some from Yorkshire and Wales also. Sadly, since the mines closed down in the early 90's and people move away, presumably back to where they were born and bred and the youth of today all speaking similarly no matter where they're from (at least to me) a lot of that "history" is being lost... Im probably going to be the old fart on a park bench that people look funny at in many years to come...
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Oddly enough, though I was born in Leeds, the first time I recall a man calling me 'love' was in Sheffield. It surprised me as the family had left Leeds for London when I was young, and you'd never hear it down south.I used to get my fruit and veg from a stall at Hebden Bridge market. The stallholder was from Leeds. We used to get on well, and he'd often put things that I liked to one side if they were selling out before I got there. I was very surprised when I arrived one week and he held up a handful of garlic and said "I've put these to one side for you, love"... That felt very odd to me, raised in the Midlands!
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
There's a story about a radio announcer from Leeds reading out the news and saying "earlier today, us troops invaded the Island of Grenada". There's then a pause as presumably someone was talking in here headset before she said "Sorry. Earlier today U.S. troops invaded the Island of Grenada"
keithmac
Guru
When someone comes in to work early "they must have sh1t the bed".
C U Next Tuesday..
