General Chat

Yorksher born, an, Yorksher bred; strong in t arm, an thick in t, ead !!

It's been chuckin' it down in the south for years and we ain't best chuffed about it either!
I don't think you can claim them as Yorkshires own :-S :-D

to julie

why be so rude telling me to get off

i only said that i lived in lincolnshire but we use those sayings

chuckin it down is a universal word for rain,

"It's siling it darn" is is how i would say its raining heavy

Roy from South Yorkshire

To Flowers, we have another saying that someone is 'daft reight way' ('daft the right way' ) so don't be fooled if someone appears 'slow'......... they just waiting to deliver their punch line or laughing all the way to the bank-jl


Definitely use 'siling down' in W. Yorkshire when the rain continues but not when it starts-

strong in t arm, an thick in t, ead ?

The "t" in Yorkshire slang is more of a regional thing, it comes from a specific part of Yorkshire mainly West Yorkshire

Roy

Don't know about Yorkshire sayings the first 3 of Julies examples are alive and well and used regularly in London where I have lived all my life.

Put the Wood in the Hole a fave of dads, he was also London born & bred.

I think most phrases unless using local dialect wording are pretty generic around the country.

Sadly many local dialects are slowly dying out which is a shame, its these regional differences which make this such a wonderful and diverse country.

<3

Janet : spot on your description.

Here's another classic

There's now't as strange as folk !!

Its nowt as queer as folk -in my neck of the woods-jl

Tables are for Glasses,and not for Hairy A***s. :-D :-D Oh, and just for curiosity, What happened to the "Ridings?" Yorkshire seems to have lost the, :-S ;-)

Where does that one come from Merlin? PMSL :-0 :-D :-D

From my Grandma whenever people sat on the edge of the table (Like they do sometimes.) or other ways.PMSL :-D :-D ;-)

Wind thee neck in abit
When someone is getting a bit clever.

One of my Great Grandmas sayings was " my shackles whark", she meant her wrists ached. She was a real old West Yorkshire woman, with the language to go with it.

Caz

to kruckle = to go over on one's ankle

thas mekkin a right pigs ear o that
sit thissen dawn an tell mi all abart it
ee bah gum
black as ace of spades
not backard at comin forward

Funnily enough even as a Londoner I know me and many others also say

'theres nowt queer as folk'

Julie, are you reading anyone elses posts?

Merlin, the Ridings disappeared in 1974 at the same time as a stupid place called Kirklees was invented. Hopefully one branch of the political divide is trying to get rid of it and replace it with Greater Huddersfield which would at least please most of us. As Kirklees contains Dewsbury and Batley I should imagine they would like to get back to their proper name. Its only 38 years since it happened and most people are still "chuntering abaht it".-jl


Caz thats a most descriptive saying, normally it was belly wark but your gt grandmother obviously 'said it how it was' ....and that is definitely a Yorkshire trait- lol

Bernard's 'wind thee neck in' may have come from the love of the Yorkshire people for the Lancastrians....don't mention the war (1455-1487)...we've got long memories.

In the area of the Colne Valley which was the direct link to Lancashire before the M62 they always refered to the Lancastrians as 'long necks' because they were alway sticking their heads above the Pennines looking to see what us Yorkshire people were at.The saying may well have come from those same people when they likened a nosey person to the Lancastrians. I am not a racist I have Lancastrians living next door to me-lol-jl