Gransnet today....Just my opinion.

Katek I come from Fife originally and I was also used to hearing the word "mirr". A word I hate and it was used by my Fifer grandmother was baffies for slippers and also calling me hen.

gilly At Moray House in about 1960, our music teacher was a great advocate of teaching primary children local folk songs instead of poncy English tunes. He got his class of future teachers singing things like "The craw kill't the pussy, oh" from which I can add that the past of "greet" is "grat" - The mammy cat sat doon and grat.

I think he must have been a fan of Robin Hall and Jimmy McGregor, because he had us singing "Brochan Lom, Tana Lom" too (next one on Youtube after "The craw kill't the pussy, oh")

Oh I love my baffies, even though I am hirpling about these days. I usually keep them ben the lobby press.

PS we'd see a smirr of rain.

Baffies are known as 'carpets' here!

Carpet slippers

Mardy, yes! What about being described as a nesh carrot?

Yes I remember fair clemmed and siding the table.I think it's an age thing and a lot of these words are not in general usage now. That said I haven't lived in Yorkshire for a long time now.
Also in some areas breakfast is pronounced brake fast which is nearer the meaning I suppose. I have family in West Yorkshire and they say ' we are going in for us tea ' etc.
It's all very interesting how things differ in fairly small areas.

A Yorkshire great uncle of mine used to say "Reach to" when the food had been brought in at tea-time. It didn't matter if you wanted to eat cake first either, though my great aunt made the bread and butter so dainty (sliced and buttered a finger roll as if it were a large loaf) that it was just as attractive as cake.

In Oxford I worked with a woman who said brakefast. I explained the breaking fast thing to Minibags the other day. Can't remember how it came up but she loved it and wondered why she hadn't spotted that herself.

My DH is Yorkshire born and bred, so I know most of the old Yorkshire sayings above. He used to say brakefast, but I think my influence has rubbed off and now its brekkfast all the way. He does still use side, frame and mash. One word I do like is laiking, for playing. I suppose it's related to larking?

Brake fast is pure Yorkshire and includes the long "a" sound- a word with a short "a' sound is watter (water)
My mother worked desperately to rid me of any Yorkshire accent and illustrated that one with the rhyme
"What's the matter?
Pigs in watter?
Did anyone else have the term Scotch Mist used for lost things which my mother found when I couldn't "What's this? Scotch Mist?"
Scotch Mist was also a term for light drizzle and fog.

I don't know where my neighbour (in London) is originally from, but when I walk past and he is working outside, he always says "How do?" I love that. I want to reply "Like this" and do a little dance

Scotch mist is an expression I remember as well, used as you say trisher.
My parents sent me to elocution classes so I would not grow up with a Northern accent which they thought was not 'ladylike '
I do get annoyed when people equate a northern accent with someone not being very intelligent. I took issue with the BBC over this as Tim Wonnacott on Bargain Hunt was often very patronising in this way.

I think "How do" is Yorkshire too Gk - my Dad used to say it to anyone he met outside, if he knew them.

Another one is "get out of me road" meaning "move!"

"How do" is a Yorkshire expression and I was surprised to hear that we say "brakefast". I"vet never heard that. All my life it has been "brekkfast".

Further to the subject of "watter", there is an area here called The Wicker - known as "T'Wicker, weer't watter runs o'er't weir"! Spit the bones out of that one!

Some people up here in Scotland also say 'brakefast'. My DD came home from primary school one day and said 'my teacher says brakefast instead of breakfast.' I asked why they were talking about that meal and she told me ' he said my jotter was a right dog's brakefast!'
I've never let her forget it.

My Mum who was born in Lancashire and lived in Stoke, Derby and Leicester, called it brakefast but she probably thought it was posher to say it that way.

We used Scotch mist here in the very north of England but it is a long time since I have heard it used.

My mother used to say "Scotch mist or Irish fog".

Talking about where we were born in my Lancashire secondary school class one day, I put on my best Yorkshire accent to tell my Aberdonian form mistress that "Ah coom frae Pu'sey whier watter flows up t'ill and dooks flt backards to kape mook art o' their een".

She said, in her lovely Aberdeen accent: "Wd you kindly speak Englesh". The first E of English was pronounced like the e in met.

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Jane do you remember the word glaikit? Not sure of the spelling now. I also remember Scotch mist used in the context described. I also was familiar with the word press as in cupboard.

Ooh yes. I'd say glaikit (not very bright) in, if not daily then at least weekly, use! There's also dippit (a bit daft) mauket(dirty). Not to mention jacket (rough looking esp female). None of those being exactly complimentary!!

Not jacket!- hacket. Phone won't believe I mean to type that and keeps trying to change it. Obviously these Scots words are not in its vocabulary. They are now!