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noeltone
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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.
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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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 .......Rob0 -
I know about lug holes but not the waterboots Rob!
I like that though
Waterboots...waterboots
Might just use that one meself
Any other colloquialisms anyone??
LOve
Toni xx0 -
Ahm ganging whoam, Ahm bagly up
is Blackburnese for
I'm going home, I'm not feeling well.0 -
How about stop your blarring bor????0
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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.0 -
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 Braben0 -
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 xx0 -
The good old Scouse one Got an appointment at the OZZIE next week0
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nice one tone
We go to the hossie round her coz we are posh!!
What about lobby and cobby then?
Staffordshire stew you lob stuff in and have it with a bread roll0 -
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.0 -
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? DDHave you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben0 -
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
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:
hugs
Wonky0 -
Gold star to Wonky! DDHave you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben0
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frogmorton wrote:nice one tone
We go to the hossie round her coz we are posh!!
What about lobby and cobby then?
Staffordshire stew you lob stuff in and have it with a bread roll0 -
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!
Chicara0 -
Back endish? Does it mean late or somesuch? DDHave you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben0
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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.
Chicara0 -
Thanks for the explanation, chicara. DDHave you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben0
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