don't get me wrong,my 7 a side teams from leigh,and i love em to bits usually.

 

but theres some strange language spoken at times.

 

e.g. would anyone know what a feermans pow is.

don't get me wrong,my 7 a side teams from leigh,and i love em to bits usually.

 

but theres some strange language spoken at times.

 

e.g. would anyone know what a feermans pow is.

 

DIFFERENT WORLD , ONLY FREAKS COME FROM LEYTH .

I stand with some of them of a match day and am now starting to get worried as I can understand almost every word spoken by them.

Firemans Pole?

Firemans Pole?

 

Yah yit

Is it not spelt 'Leythers'?

Is it not spelt 'Leythers'?

Just bout say its Leythers

Now. I wunter geet yon feermans pow bit. av geet yedwarch just thinkin abart it.

aye, but ast geet mons hons? an dust smook?

Ah yoost fert smook but give up sum ta'm agoo. Mons hons? Ad leek fert think so, yah.

Alarmingly, I understand all that without a problem. My grandparents were born and raised in Tonge Moor and Farnworth and when I were a lad, they spoke proper Lanky too.

Correct, it is a firemans pole, and as the resident yellow bellied turncoat wigginer quite rightly says, it is 'Leythers'.

 

Strangely, there are not many towns I come across now where the residents either speak, or understand, fluent Lanky.

 

Nasal manc drawl (which I f?ckin hate with a pasison) or some bastardchild scouse derivatrive seems to have overtaken.

My daughter is oft' derided at school for her rather broad lanky twang. Just wait until parents evening when I'll be able to put one or two straight as to what's acceptable and what's not.

 

At least she doesn't think a creche is an accident between two vehicles!

My daughter is oft' derided at school for her rather broad lanky twang. Just wait until parents evening when I'll be able to put one or two straight as to what's acceptable and what's not.

 

At least she doesn't think a creche is an accident between two vehicles!

 

Its not like a yer'ol pow then

http://www.troubleatmill.btinternet.co.uk/speak.htm#phrase

1. Oozer theesclugs?

2. Wossupwithi?

3. Berritdunt wark.

4. Frozzent deeuth.

5. Snotworritwer.

6. Howdonabit owdlad.

7. Diddy gerritwom?

8. Ayowta browtim.

9. Ifitsthine sesso.

10. Cloditint bin

11. Izyomaggie cumin?

12. Snoawfreet!

13. Azierd izsel?

14. Cozitint thine.

15. Aziadiz hurcut?

16. Dustmeent dustmon?

17. Duzit stopeer?

18. Iyaz izleeter.

19. Ersbrokkenerwerd.

20. Eaziz ownroad.

21. Eemunt cumineer.

22. Erazir fawts.

23. Lerrer gowilta

24. Snorawlusreet.

 

Shits all over cockney rhyming slang

 

tintintin

It isn't in the tin.

 

A personal favorite of mine.

It must be one of the best.

 

Right the challenge is to find a better example.

I went to school in Leyth and all the Plank Loners used to talk their own language 'Plank Lane Lingo', they put ag before every vowel, e.g. Plagank Laganage Lagingingo, it used to be great winding the teachers up, happy days

Do you mean Plonk Loners?

 

As it goes, Athy used to be proper broad Lanky when I grew up there.

 

Its seems moving towards that Manc shite now. Yoof giving it 'yaaaaaaaaaall riiiiiiiyhh'

 

Death by stoning.

Loads better than scouse.

 

De do do dat doh don't de doh?

Do you mean Plonk Loners?

 

As it goes, Athy used to be proper broad Lanky when I grew up there.

 

Its seems moving towards that Manc shite now. Yoof giving it 'yaaaaaaaaaall riiiiiiiyhh'

 

Death by stoning.

 

Disagree there Smiffs, you want to turn out in't Mountain Dew, Athy Arms and Last Orders, Lanky is alive and well. even I struggle to understand some of 'em and I've lived here all my life

Glad to hear it.

 

Nearest I get now regularly is Howe Bridge and Tesco's. Maybe its the Shak Yoof Solford wanabees

one thing i notice about Leythers speak, is using the word "called" in place of "suppose to be", as in ,"he wer called be workin on sunday, but never showed"

only ever heared that off Leigh people, nowhere else, even if they do speak with a "lanky twang"