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noeltone
noeltone Member Posts: 878
edited 8. Sep 2010, 06:47 in Community Chit-chat archive
Some confusion over words and Norfolk dialect
patient complaing to nurse in hospital of lug ache and nurses thought they were talking about leg ache and not to ear ache with lug meaning ear.
not so much Norfolk; patients asking to spend a penny were told the paper person will be around soon to buy something and did not realise what was being refered to was a need to go to the tiolet.

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  • robertls
    robertls Member Posts: 2,304
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I had a Norfolk friend....said
    " Gowna gut waterboots frum shud"

    Translation.....I am going to get my Wellington Boots from the shed...

    Don't you just love it........

    Rob x .......
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  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,026
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I know about lug holes but not the waterboots Rob!

    I like that though

    Waterboots...waterboots

    Might just use that one meself :wink:

    Any other colloquialisms anyone??

    LOve

    Toni xx
  • ichabod6
    ichabod6 Member Posts: 843
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Ahm ganging whoam, Ahm bagly up

    is Blackburnese for

    I'm going home, I'm not feeling well.
  • noeltone
    noeltone Member Posts: 878
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    How about stop your blarring bor????
  • irbrit22
    irbrit22 Member Posts: 4
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    noeltone wrote:
    Some confusion over words and Norfolk dialect
    patient complaing to nurse in hospital of lug ache and nurses thought they were talking about leg ache and not to ear ache with lug meaning ear.
    not so much Norfolk; patients asking to spend a penny were told the paper person will be around soon to buy something and did not realise what was being refered to was a need to go to the tiolet.
    This reminds me of butteries in the North East of Scotland which are a bit like croissants. Whilst in the south I asked for 4 butteries and was given 4 rolls with butter on them.
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I have never heard of butteries - are they good?

    I work as a private tutor for dyslexics and I work in Ipswich. Some locals have a fairly strong accent, which I wasn't used to then. I was doing an assessment on an adult and asked him to write about a recent event. I told him not to worry about spelling, as I wanted to gauge the 'type' of spelling strategies he used. He did, however, ask for one word, 'kitchen' which I told him. I read back what he had written (I've neatened the spelling): 'We had to get up early as we were kitchen a plane from Heathrow.' DD

    I forgot: welcome irbrit, I hope you are reasonably OK today.
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,026
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Excellent!!!

    We have oatcakes here in staffs - a kind of pancake made of oats - I asked for some in Scotland and got a very dry kind of biscuit - maybe for cheese :(

    Very disapointed I was :(

    Love

    Toni xx
  • tonesp
    tonesp Member Posts: 844
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    The good old Scouse one Got an appointment at the OZZIE next week :lol:
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,026
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    nice one tone

    We go to the hossie round her coz we are posh!! :wink:

    What about lobby and cobby then?

    Staffordshire stew you lob stuff in and have it with a bread roll :wink:
  • irbrit22
    irbrit22 Member Posts: 4
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    dreamdaisy wrote:
    I have never heard of butteries - are they good?
    Butteries are wonderful but rather fattening!

    I work as a private tutor for dyslexics and I work in Ipswich. Some locals have a fairly strong accent, which I wasn't used to then. I was doing an assessment on an adult and asked him to write about a recent event. I told him not to worry about spelling, as I wanted to gauge the 'type' of spelling strategies he used. He did, however, ask for one word, 'kitchen' which I told him. I read back what he had written (I've neatened the spelling): 'We had to get up early as we were kitchen a plane from Heathrow.' DD

    I forgot: welcome irbrit, I hope you are reasonably OK today.
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Most of the good things in life are fattening.

    Here's a challenge: one of my pupils (girl, aged under 10) did a short piece of writing - can anyone de-code this word?

    bceany

    What do you think that might mean? DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • Wonkylegs
    Wonkylegs Member Posts: 3,504
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    dreamdaisy wrote:

    bceany

    What do you think that might mean? DD

    was your pupil perhaps going on a beach holiday and wanting to go for a swim in her bikini?

    do hope I got it or 14 years deciphering the scrawls of 4-7 year olds was obviously in vain :wink::lol:

    Wish I could remember all the words that I was asked for that I never understood when I first came over here .... the East Yorkshire/Hull accent can be a tad confusing :oops: :wink:

    hugs
    Wonky
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Gold star to Wonky! DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • tonesp
    tonesp Member Posts: 844
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    frogmorton wrote:
    nice one tone

    We go to the hossie round her coz we are posh!! :wink:

    What about lobby and cobby then?

    Staffordshire stew you lob stuff in and have it with a bread roll :wink:
    Ho We was posh too We lived on the Dee side of the Wirral.Heswall if anyone knows it.My wife is a posh scouser and I am a very posh Cestrian(Chester) And we often went to the Halehouse :roll:
  • chicara
    chicara Member Posts: 47
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I used to live on the Lincolnshire, Leicestershire border and for years used to go into the bakers and ask for half a dozen cobs.

    Moved to Daventry and no one knew was I was talking about!!

    Told hubby it was getting back endish last week - he'd no idea on that one either!

    Chicara
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Back endish? Does it mean late or somesuch? DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • chicara
    chicara Member Posts: 47
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi DD - almost there

    If you say it is getting back endish people are usually referring to the weather getting cooler - basically its means getting to the back end of summer and autumns on the way, Lincolnshire folk will often tell you that something happened last backend or their foal was born backend.

    Hope you are all having a good day.

    Chicara
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Thanks for the explanation, chicara. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben

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