well as some of you will know , I moved from sheffield to work and live near a welsh district general in bodelwyddan



and blow me on the itu are two staff that lived in walkley and hillsborough and a doctor who lived in crooks and a physio who lived in broomhill.....

wierd eh???

They get all over the place these Sheffielders don't they! :heyhey:

When we were in Egypt last week we were seated for meals next to - yes a lovely lady from Crookes!

Hope you're having a good time and settling in :thumbsup:

i miss sheffield very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope you and Hels encoraged your new friends to sign up on this forum :clap:

You'll have to come back & visit us soon Crowefan!!!

Yay for world domination by Sheffielders :D

hi sian

thanks I have let some know of this strange existance on this web site.........one knows of it already......


I feel supported that its here!!!!

I think Sheffielders are like Irish people, who get everywhere! You always know somebody who claims to be of Irish origin wherever you go and for me there are always sheffielders or people who's parents are from sheffield wherever i go!

Yes Hels is right ----us Sheffielders get everywhere.
All over the world , children in a million classrooms are chanting catechisms such as -
" Wier da gooin' den ?'
" Am gunna t' pub . Warra baht dee ?"

or engineers in far flung places ,

" This chuffin' thing waint start."
" 'It it wi t' f*****g 'ammer , then ".

When I first started teaching abroad , I used to get the young kids to repeat sentences out loud. I could always hear my Sheffield accent , "coming back" at me. Imagine little Chinese kids all solemnly chanting out ,
"The boy kicked t' futtball dahn t' road "? Sounded quite funny , actually.
For all its faults , a good city and a great place to be brought up in. !

Seeing the sheffield dialect written down is quite funny. I recall when we all talked like that, except those trying to be posh - o' those educated folk who simply wanted the dialect removed from existance.

People from other parts find our dialect really interesting - mainly cos only a sheffielder can understand a sheffielder. No other dialect comes close. Personally - I love parts of the Barnsley accent as well. The way they say forty without the or, hence "F'ty".

Ah - memories!

Dragon

When I joined the RAF as a young lad of 17,it was a shock hearing all the different accents,some were very difficult to understand.Eventually I think we kind of averaged out just to be understood.When I came home my mother accused me of talking posh!
I once wrote and told her she wouldn't recognise me as I had grown a foot,so she sent me 3 socks :heyhey:
The old jokes are the best.

Yeah , Matsalleh , that's how strong accents disappear-------sheer convenience ! You get fed up of repeating things so you adapt that little bit.......and so it goes on.
Having said that , when we were young , we always used to laugh at those whose accents changed too suddenly--------you know the ones who spent 2 weeks in London and came back talking like life-long cockneys, or trying to !
I love the Barnsley accent . My mate , from Sheffield , lives in Barnsley now and I go to see him at his local. I always listen out for the "buits"[boots] and, "coit "[coat ]. It seems to go just right with the dry Barnsley wit and the Barnsley warmth. Great people !

I used to travel every Sunday night on the bus from Sheffield to Bradford. There were usually a crowd of good-natured Barnsley teenagers sitting at the back. These kids had been to the skating rink in Sheffield. They didn't use bad language or embarrass or bully anybody-----in fact it was entertaining , listening to their repartee.
However one Sunday , a hatchet faced old cow at the front kept turning round and glaring at the kids.One of them , a girl , couldn't hold it back any longer. She shouted up the bus ,
" It's allreet luv. We're all bloody daft from Barnsley. Tha'll get u-i-sed to it ."
Hatchet-face didn't turn round again.

My mate at work had a huge list of local phrases written in south yorkshire* dialect.....very funny.....i'll see if he's still got it. If so, i'll post some.

*Note that i said south yorkshire.....dont want non of that north yorkshire malarky.....'wun' instead of 'one' etc

And i agree with Fareast.....Sheffield is a great City. I kno i live (sorry, exist) in Rovrum but i am a Sheffielder really. I'm just here spreading the word to the poor people!!!

ahhhhhhhhhhh
they're breeding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

we once went to greece {cos } and low and behold the couple sat next to us at the pool bar were from the next street whats the odds on that !!!

I know of one teacher who fainted in her classrom ( infants)
she came round to hear the child peering at her saying--she's diard lets go huam. ( not sure I've got that right but won't translate)

hazel

A frien of mine had relations that moved to the Isle of Mull at Bernnesan(think that is how it's spelt ). There were 3 families from Wisewood and another family from Ecclesall in the same village as them.

Hazel ,

That was a classic about the , "dead " teacher !' Little kids can be very practical and too honest !
I'm teaching in China and recently I was teaching grades 1-6.
One day I was just leaving a classroom and an angelic girl of about 6 years old stopped me at the door.
She gave a beaming smile and said,

" Mr.[Fareast] "

"Yes ?"

"You are very fat "
I felt like W.C. Fields[ in fact to her , I probably looked like him too ]. My fingers were twitching near her throat [joke !].
I said ,

" Oh , thank you , thank you very much ".

The irony was lost on her , though. She gave an even bigger smile and went on ,

" Yes , very , very fat "
I closed the door and wobbled to the staff room for a good cry.

We had a corner of our classroom made into a hospital for play purposes.
A 4yr old was the Dr and in went a plump teacher saying now Dr what''s wrong with me. Immediately the child said you are too fat you must have no puddings and sweeties

worms eye veiw but terribly down putting.

hazel

Yeah , the plump teacher walked head-first into the trap there , all right.

It's fatal to ask little kids leading questions , isn't it ? They're far too honest !
I think a great breakthrough in a child's developement comes when they get a sense of irony. If it's gentle irony and used sparingly , they love it and then it's not long before they get a " full-blown " sense of humour.
Thank God , teaching 's not all about facts to be crammed in for a test -------yet !

One 4 yr old child when I said jokingly that will be 10p please, flattened his milkbottle top and gave it to me. This was way before we introduced ccins.

I loved it when you could crack a joke and watch their faces light up as it dawned on them.
hazel

Hope we're not wandering too far off the thread-----but still it's about Sheffielders spreading a bit of Yorkshire humour isn't it ?
With some 11 year old kids in Turkey , whose basic English was quite good , I used to come across words like beautiful , intelligent ,handsome.
Often, I'd play a trick on the boys [as they were usually very vain] , I'd start to explain what , "handsome " meant. Then I'd say , " Look I'll give you some examples. In this classroom , there are some very handsome boys " , then I'd pause , " for example .............".....then , look round with a longer pause to work up the tension ....." er.....er......er......" As I pretended to be looking for an example of a handsome one , some of the boys would be sitting up tall in their seats obviously hoping that they'd be picked. ! Eventually , I'd have looked all round the classroom and then give a big sigh of defeat.." Oh , sorry , wrong class , I meant in 6 B. ..."
There 'd be a howl of mock rage as they realised it was all a joke. So , hopefully , another bit of British humour might fall into place.
I still think Britain is miles ahead of any other country when it comes to humour ------the depth , variety and originality far outstrips any other country , in my view anyway.