Just out of interest, does anyone know if there is a slang name for 'Sheffielders', as in the equivalent of Brummies, Mancs, Cockneys, Scousers etc? A mate asked me today and i realised I didn't have a clue...

Dee Dahs..................

Isn't it only Rotherham people who call em that tho? i don't think anyone outside of S. Yorks would know that a Dee Dah was a Sheffield person would they? I might be wrong but I know I'd never heard of it before I moved here.

I dont know about that but check out what they say about people from Gloucestershire :cool:

To be a bit more useful, and because Im bored. Wikipedia wins: 'People from Sheffield are called Sheffielders. They are also colloquially known to people in the surrounding towns of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Chesterfield as "Dee-dars" (which derives from their pronunciation of the "th" in the dialectal words "thee" and "thou").[7] Many Yorkshire dialect words and aspects of pronunciation derive from old Norse[8] due to the Viking influence in this region.' x

Na den dee, da berra watch wot da sayin!

I always find it hugely ironic that anyone from Barnsley can take the mick out of another accent, when they all seem to be doing some kind of third rate comedy Yorkshireman impression.

Yeah, they pronounce things more "dee dah" than we do!

What time is it when there's a pork pie on Barnsley town hall clock? Summat to eight! :hihi:

Isn't it 'woolybacks'???

That might just be Yorkshire-people!

Woolybacks????? I think not. We are the steel city. Nothing wooly about that. Sheffielders or Dee Dahs or God's Chosen. Take your pick. :hihi:

RAF cooks could always recognise Sheffielders,the only ones having gravy and/or salad cream on chips.I don't think they had a printable name for us though.

Woolybacks????? I think not. We are the steel city. Nothing wooly about that. Sheffielders or Dee Dahs or God's Chosen. Take your pick. :hihi:

Woolybacks might be further into the Dales or something, it's to do with sheep I think! As in being sheep farmers?

Dee Dahs..................

this is barnsley folk..!!

We go caravanning with quite a few friends from Doncaster and always get referred to as the Dee Dahs, but in my opinion they have just as pronounced an accent as we do.

I thought Dee daa's was specific to Darnall?

It is Dee Dah's but its not very widely known or heard of outside South Yorkshire!

A woollyback is someone who lives outside of Liverpool and is not a real Scouser, ie, someone from the surrounding areas of Runcorn, Warrington etc. At least, that's what it means in Liverpool.

You dont hear that many Sheffield people "dee dar - ing". Ive found it is generally people born and brought up in the northern part of Sheffield. Go on, someone, prove me wrong.

A woollyback is someone who lives outside of Liverpool and is not a real Scouser, ie, someone from the surrounding areas of Runcorn, Warrington etc. At least, that's what it means in Liverpool.


I thought that was 'plassy-scouse'

My mate's from warrington and that's what he gets called

Yeah, that too! Plassy-Scouse, Woollyback.... all the same. Interesting actulaly that people in Sheffield have heard of this term, maybe it's actually national slang for anyone who's 'not from round these parts' :suspect:

Tiger Woods was playing in the Barnsley open, he was paired with a local lad at the first hole the lad from barnsley hit the ball just two inches from the hole, Tiger turned round and said nice t-shot son, nice t- shot.
Thanks alot he said only thirty bob from market.:gag:

You dont hear that many Sheffield people "dee dar - ing". Ive found it is generally people born and brought up in the northern part of Sheffield. Go on, someone, prove me wrong.

its that class thing again:suspect:

I never understood 'Dee Dah' I'm from near Chesterfield and heard people calling Sheffielders that. Then I moved to Sheffield and and found that people don't sound like that at all.

I`ve heard people from Chesterfield refer to Sheffielders as dee dahs (sp)

I`ve heard people from Chesterfield refer to Sheffielders as dee dahs (sp)
I quite agree. My ex brother in law who was born and bred in Chesterfield always used to refer to me as a dee dah (although I have never spoken like that in my life) and he used to drive me mad with it. I think it is so rude and patronising.

Now I just get called an 'overner'! (Means someone who's come from the mainland and not born and bred on the Island)

Yeah definately roveramers call us dee-dah the first thing my ex girlfriends dad said to me was "so your a dee-dah then" :huh: first time I had been called that scratched my head for a while (probably expains bald patch) a few words sprung to mind like "naa den dee-dah c**t.
But in saying all that I am a dee-dah and proud of it.:thumbsup:

"Stuffleedsers" ?

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Knew all about the dee-dah thing, i think it is a inferiority complex from the dwellers of Sheffields satelitte towns.

Dee-dah's are from northern sheff and barnsley area.
Nee-nah's are from south sheff and chesterfield.

When we first moved here thats what everyone sounded like to us, actually thought we'd made up these nicknames but when i found out the locals refered to each other as dee-dah's or nee-nah's i thought it wo hilarious:D

In fact i still do :razz:

g'o'er, we're all Tykes .. North, South, East or West, we're all Yorkshire folk .., on t' right side o' Pennines .. that's all that should matter to thee ..

[QUOTE=b1u3grass]Dee-dah's are from northern sheff and barnsley area.
Nee-nah's are from south sheff and chesterfield.


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Thought nee- nahs were ambulances...:huh:

Woolybacks might be further into the Dales or something, it's to do with sheep I think! As in being sheep farmers?
Woolybacks implies that the said folk may be backward or caveman like:gag:

Dee Dahs..................

lol..my mate from Huddersfield calls me this all the time :D