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Apricity Mon 11-Dec-17 10:00:32

My grandfather migrated to Australia as a very small child with his family in the early 1900s. He came from Stockport near Manchester. The men in his family were felthatters for many generations and the unmarried women worked in the mills. My grandfather was badly injured in WW2 and died when I was 9.
Some of my few memories of him are words. He called me "snooks" and the term "spiflicate" meaning to chastise someone have come down the family. Are these local or regional words? I would love to hear from GNers from those areas.

Greyduster Tue 19-Dec-17 15:57:27

lemongrove I’ve never heard the word snicket - it was always ‘gennel’, the ‘g’ pronounced softly as a ‘j’.

lemongrove Tue 19-Dec-17 15:58:58

Another good Yorkshire word ‘morngy’ the Lancashire word is ‘mardy’.

lemongrove Tue 19-Dec-17 15:59:56

Yorkshire is a big county Greyduster so there will be variations.

Fennel Tue 19-Dec-17 16:14:58

What about words for the lavatory? Or is that a dialect word?
One Gran called it the WC, the other , the netty.

BlueBelle Tue 19-Dec-17 16:28:32

‘cor blast bor my knee is given me gyp’ that’s really silly Suffolk also we use Mardy meaning whingy a Mardle is a conversation or a chat, Mawther is a woman

lemongrove Tue 19-Dec-17 16:30:50

At school it was called the bogs.

dbDB77 Tue 19-Dec-17 17:08:28

As a Lancashire lass married to a Yorkshire man - in our house we have crumpets (me) but pikelets (him), scones rhyming with ones (me) but scones rhyming with owns (him). But no matter what they're called or how they're pronounced - we enjoy them with lots of butter grin
My Granny used to send me out for the "messages" - ie to get some shopping.

Galen Tue 19-Dec-17 17:49:05

I’m from Staffordshire and they were pumps.
A snicket was a narrow passage between terraced houses
A grey tide eel is Bristolian meaning a great idea.
When I first moved down here I couldn’t understand a word of the local speech
Pikelets are definitely the thin ones.
Crumpets seem to be English muffins on American ships

MamaCaz Tue 19-Dec-17 18:15:09

Ginnel in my part of West Yorkshire, but snicket in OH's North Yorkshire.

The 'gip' I mentioned, meaning the same as to gag (you know, when you are eating and something nearly makes you sick?), has the same 'g' sound as the 'g' of give, so nothing like jip or gyp. I know it is still in use as i heard it on Emmerdale last week, even though that's set in a different part of Yorkshire from the one I'm from grin

MamaCaz Tue 19-Dec-17 18:18:30

Where i come from, we call a spade a spade and a toilet a toilet grin

Jalima1108 Tue 19-Dec-17 18:34:04

A grey tide eel is Bristolian meaning a great idea.
grinI am going to get the in-laws to say that!!

Jalima1108 Tue 19-Dec-17 18:37:27

My DM used to get 'all mithered'.

Cherrytree59 Tue 19-Dec-17 18:49:17

Jalima I live in a village near to a BarleyMow pub.

Was there a large common in front of it?smile

Galen Tue 19-Dec-17 18:53:17

I used to know a pub called the ring of bells. It was where they sold beer by the pound.
The old village pound was in front of the pub

varian Tue 19-Dec-17 19:10:36

Growing up in Glasgow, the shoes we wore for gym lessons were called sand-shoes, but we called them "saunies". They were kept in a cloth drawstring bag called a "sauniebag".

Cherrytree59 Tue 19-Dec-17 19:24:38

Varian always called 'yer saunies' by my DF.

A jeely piece wrapped in a square loaf wrapper.

Translate as a jam sandwich wrapped in a Scottish bread wrappergrin

varian Tue 19-Dec-17 20:00:17

It had to be a plain bread wrapper, cherry , not a pan loaf wrapper. That would have been too posh.

Cherrytree59 Tue 19-Dec-17 20:57:25

Your right Varian not square bread!
a plain loaf with lovely dark top and bottom crust.
Perfect for Ayrshire bacon sandwich.
We called the outside slices the ootie grin

Jalima1108 Wed 20-Dec-17 10:03:41

Cherrytree there was a large common in front of the Barley Mow, a 'chase' nearby and a large estate belonging to a Lord, now NT.
Is it the same Barley Mow I wonder? I can't remember how long it is since I went there

Cherrytree59 Wed 20-Dec-17 23:16:01

Jalima yes that's the onetchsmile

Jalima1108 Wed 20-Dec-17 23:20:07

I am having a guess - does it begin with B?

I don't think I have been there since before I met DH - I went with a previous boyfriend
where is he now, I wonder. hmm

Jalima1108 Wed 20-Dec-17 23:21:31

ps I'm glad to hear it is still going