Ask yer Granny!

candygirl

meritaten wrote: »

my personal favourite bit of Valleys is 'I'll do it now, after'. Simply means - I will do it as soon as possible, but, i've got something else to do first!

this a gem too: On enquiring about someones health you may be told...'Oh he/she is bad in bed, under the doctor'.
bad (baarrd - Ill) 'under the doctor' means that they were ill enough to consult the doctor! NO impropriety! lol cracks me up though!

My Nan used to say that, and she was from Barrow originally:rotfl::rotfl:I've never met a doc i'd like to get under, unfortunatley :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

mardatha

VJsmum that sound pure Ozzie to me ! I cannot imagine anybody saying one like con though..it has to be WUN! Up here the best accent is Hawick, people fall over helpless when two folk from Hawick start talking. Chinese would be easier lol! If they say
"you and me are going to go into Gala"...it comes out as
"yow and my ur gan tae gan tae gally"
And he is HEH which always catches me out :rotfl:
OH is from Edinburgh and therefore dead posh. He says scone like on...I say scone like goin. He says golllf and I say go-olf. He says cloth and I say cloath

Memory_Girl

WeegieWumman wrote: »

One should have mentioned in one's previous post that one has been accused of inaccurate pronunciation, such as "fush & chups" lol

Wie sot n soss???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGQItvUBhG4

Watch if you dare ladies - but beware, this is a "tena-lady" clip of Stanley Baxter teaching "glaswegian" with "english" translations.

MG

Hobsons_Choice

How about us here from Brum: My aunt's favourite saying was....wait for it...those of a nervous disposition, or vivid imagination......

"He's so generous he'd gie yer 'is a*se and sh*it through 'is ribs"

Now THAT used to crack me up!

I'll get me coat.

Sunnyday

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Wie sot n soss???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGQItvUBhG4

Watch if you dare ladies - but beware, this is a "tena-lady" clip of Stanley Baxter teaching "glaswegian" with "english" translations.

MG

Rofl - loved it :rotfl::D:D

You just reminded me of a Hale & Pace clip from a while ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VLYpKGVBUg
The loo made me howl :rotfl:

SD

WeegieWumman

mardatha wrote: »

VJsmum that sound pure Ozzie to me ! I cannot imagine anybody saying one like con though..it has to be WUN! Up here the best accent is Hawick, people fall over helpless :rotfl:
OH is from Edinburgh and therefore dead posh. He says scone like on...I say scone like goin. He says golllf and I say go-olf. He says cloth and I say cloath

DH and I were in Hawick a couple of weeks ago.
Your OH is from Edinburgh? You poor thing! Ah well, I suppose you can't have everything good.... lol.......For the benefit of those who don't know, there's usually a lot of friendly(???) rivalry between Glasgow and Edinburgh, but it's true that you have more fun at a Glasgow wake than an Edinburgh wedding.:rotfl:
DH & I lived in Edinburgh for some months many moons ago and our respective jobs involved us going to Edinburgh on various occasions.

suzybloo

One of our grannies sayings was 'haud yer wheesht', when she was asking someone to be quiet.
WHen we were wee (bout 40 years ago!) I remember the berry pickers going on about 'gies a swally o' yer ginger' and couldnt work out what they meant - turns out they were wanting a drink of coke out of a bottle - couldnt comprehend that ginger was any fizzy juice!

caledonian_princess

In Manchester where I grew up there was skriking (for crying) which reminds me of being a little girl when I hear it now since it seems to have died out. The other is mardy and mard ar*e which were also in common use but perhaps less so now.

...and to get back on topic my great-gran, when asked what we were having for tea, always said "a jump at the cupboard and a bite at the latch", took me years to work that out.

WeegieWumman

Years ago, life was extremely difficult for many of the parents. There was no birth control and they often struggled to bring up large families.
A number of those offspring had little option other than emigrate to places such as Canada, USA and Australia to seek employment. It was commonplace for the parents never to see some of those sons and daughters again. This also happened to both sets of my grandparents.

meritaten

Very True WW! and the excitement when a letter from America/Canada/Australia arrived! every member of the family would call round to read it and it was much read and exclaimed over!