Words from a past generation

day6 does anyone else wear a pinny? I can't cook without one. Made my first one in DS.at school in house coloured gingham, for some reason. Mine was brown, I was a Chestnut!

My DH and I still say ‘tune in’ the TV and we still ‘turn over’ to another channel.

We’ve always said ‘ Donkey’s years’ meaning a long period of time. I’ve had two neighbours recently asked me what it meant !

Day6

Your memory of putting the hot water on, reminded me of when I was little, my mother would send me up to turn it in as the airing cupboard was in my bedroom, nine times out of ten, I’d get distracted and forget, only to remember an hour later, when someone ran a freezing cold bath, I wasn’t popular!

It might be a local expression but very few people seem to say they'll 'mash the tea', or 'brew up' any more. We always 'make a brew' when people gather at home.

'Get on my wick', for annoyance
'Put the hot water on' - when we had to flick the switch on the immersion heater a while before having a bath.

Pesky

Dolt or nincompoop (for idiot)

Do you think I was born yesterday?

I've done (whatever)...more than you've had hot dinners.

Gamp (for umbrella)

Pinny for apron (does anyone but me still wear them?)

Yes, I have a couple BradfordLass, and mine is always called a pinny. (Mentioned 'pinny' this last Sunday when I was wearing one, cooking a roast dinner and our DGS didn't know what I meant.)

I still use 'chap' and 'bloke' for man, whereas most people seem to use 'guys' today - for men and women! I hate it! It's just one of those words which grate.

Things I don't hear much:

Get cracking
Fab
Stone the crows
By Jove (not that I ever used it much, but I like it!)
Lavvy (for loo)
Sitting room
In old money (we'll be the last generation to use that I expect)
Disco
Charabang (for bus or coach)

My mother used to say people were thick, meaning they were close friends.

From thick as thieves maybe? I don’t know

Pals
Bathers
Toffs
Spinster

'Dead' meaning 'very/really', or maybe this is still in use in the north-west?

Cracking - as in cracking job, get cracking, crack on

Like a pp said "please" "thank you" and "excuse me" as you're trying to get past someone. If you can tack "please" on the end of "excuse me" so much the better!

Put the wood in the hole.... for close the door

I still say" Man", (i e "oh no! i`ve left my shopping list at home man!)

Cheerio

Carnos

Rollers and curlers, I suppose, will disappear.

Brolly

My very elderly mother talks about a person being pathetic. What she actually means is that she feels sorry for their misfortunes or poor health. I have tried to explain that nowadays this is a hurtful term.

Fripperies.

I have a habit of saying, "Boolin' in," I don't even know if I spelt that right. My youngest AS and his wife think it's hilarious and whenever I am retelling a tale of, intervention, they always ask if I went, boolin' in. Plus I say things like, "Wow!! He must have arms like Garth," again to the great amusement of my AC, their partners and my adult nieces.

Reminds me of a small child in my daughter's class who couldn't understand what her mum meant by Raining Cats and Dogs. Asked my daughter, who was teaching, if the cats n dogs would be ok falling in the rain lol

how about 'thank you', 'please', 'excuse me'.

'Ragamuffin' is a lovely old word you don't hear any more.
Ditto 'scallywag'. Though I know there are 'scallies' in the Merseyside area, at least I think so..
Oh, and 'floozie'!

There should IMO be a society for the preservation of lovely old words!
I also love 'ugsome' (ugly) as quoted by Bill Bryson in his book Mother Tongue, though that died out long ago.

Fab

Funny how language changes. A granny would say, 'Oh, I was vexed!' and refer to someone being 'stout'.

The other granny often said 'presently' as in 'soon'.

You so rarely hear any of those now, though I've heard 'vexed' used by relatively young people in the Caribbean.

Windcheater reminded me of jerkin, some sort of light weight jacket as I recall