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Old Lancashire Sayings.


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On 29/05/2021 at 08:25, ErnestTurnip said:

My lad was talking  to a linguistics prof last month and mentioned I said "oo", so book, look, cook and not buck, luck, cuck. Prof asked if I was from Bolton and said one of his areas of study was regional dialects and that the oo would be gone forever in the very near future.

Sayings wise "tha's more bant in a sore eye" was the first that jumped into my head, owd fella at work used to say it every dinnertime when he saw what lads were eating.

probably not the same dude, but.. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Grammar_of_the_Dialect_of_the_Bolton_Area

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16 minutes ago, Sweep said:

Jankers is more of a military phrase isn't it?

 

8 minutes ago, athywhite1958 said:

It is and my dad was ex army that is why he used it, at times it felt like we were in the army

My dad often described being exhausted as, “on mi chinstrap.” Another military term.

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One we used to hear when working with lads from Atherton/Leigh years ago “ I wur cor gooin art, but dint bother int thee’end” it meant “ i was so called going out, but didn’t bother in the end” another one we heard regular was “ya yit duz” meaning “yes it does” Athy/Leigh/Howfen was always a lot broader than Bolton, but a broad Hindley accent is like another language - “watter” for water and “Wheat” is White and “Thirt- ty” for thirty.

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First day of my apprenticeship at Horwich Loco Works. It was the first time I’d ever spoken to anyone from Leigh. 
I asked a question, to which I got the response, “yah”

I thought he was German!

 

 

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57 minutes ago, bolty58 said:

Must be the same as my grandparents 'varnear' for almost?

Aye. Presumably originated from very nearly.  I used to hear it a lot when we first moved to Westhoughton. Not heard it in ages now though 

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