'I wouln't pay 'im aht in weshers' Is that Sheffield? If not it should be. It sprang to mind reading of the future resignation of a certain popular entertainer from the BBC.

Can't remember if this old one is Sheffield or Chinese ?
"Man with hole in pocket feels cocky all day"

Can't remember if this old one is Sheffield or Chinese ? "Man with hole in pocket feels cocky all day"It's one of the many sayings attributed to Confucius, along with:
..."Man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement",
..."Man who walk through airport door sideways going to Bangkok", and
..."Man who fart in church sit in own pew"..:)

It's one of the many sayings attributed to Confucius, along with:
..."Man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement",
..."Man who walk through airport door sideways going to Bangkok", and
..."Man who fart in church sit in own pew"..:)

"Dirty brown patch on the ceiling by Who Flung Dung"
This was one of many Confucious book titles.

Wednesdays two new Chinese signings-

We Won and How Lon Since

My Grandad used to say this -nothing changes at Hilsborough (although he always used to say Owlerton)

What about the Ice cream man they found dead in the back of his van covered in hundreds and thousands...
The police think he topped himself !!!

And the man who got his finger trapped in the bacon slicer.....

You know the rest.:roll:

Have your eyes ever been checked ?

No, doctor, they've always been blue.......:suspect:

"Dirty brown patch on the ceiling by Who Flung Dung"
This was one of many Confucious book titles.

Duffems.
Did you ever do the book and author one's as a kid.

Bubbles in the bath.
by
Windy Bottom.

Ghost stories.
by
Major Jump.

Duffems.
Did you ever do the book and author one's as a kid.

Bubbles in the bath.
by
Windy Bottom.

Ghost stories.
by
Major Jump.

Babysitting by Justin-Casey Howls.Thats all i can think of for now.....My old pathetic memory is yet again letting me down!!:(

Get Rich Quick, By Robin Banks?

Also Falling off Cliffs by Eileen Dover,
How to Get Things Moving by Luke Sharp
and The Nail on the Banister by R. Stornaway.:P

When I was going to bed, my Sheffield grandma would say I was going "up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire". Here in North Lincs. they say "up the wooden hill to Blanket Fair".:)

Dirty Work at the Crossroads by G G Dunnit

In my younger days, pavements were known as causeways or causeys and kerb stones were causey-edgings.

In my younger days, pavements were known as causeways or causeys and kerb stones were causey-edgings.

And if a woman had a large rear it was said that she had "a causey edge arse" which meant that it touched the kerb edge as she crossed the road.

My late grandfather.

There are folk dying now who have never died before.

Half of three quarters of nowt, is still bugger all.

I came into this world with bugger all, and still have all of it.

When I die, I will really miss myself.

Consultant doctor to my grandad. "And what would be the problem with you?", my grandad's reply was, "You tell me lad, and then we'll both know".

My late grandfather.

There are folk dying now who have never died before.

Half of three quarters of nowt, is still bugger all.

I came into this world with bugger all, and still have all of it.

When I die, I will really miss myself.

Consultant doctor to my grandad. "And what would be the problem with you?", my grandad's reply was, "You tell me lad, and then we'll both know".

Sounds a real Sheffield character crookesey, I had a grandfather like that too, they don't make them like that anymore!

Sounds a real Sheffield character crookesey, I had a grandfather like that too, they don't make them like that anymore!

The wonderful thing is that my son actually knew him. He told him that he could put his feet in two buckets, pick up the handles, and carry himself across the room. My lad was much impressed, as I was when I was his age. :D

My late grandfather.

There are folk dying now who have never died before.

Half of three quarters of nowt, is still bugger all.

I came into this world with bugger all, and still have all of it.

When I die, I will really miss myself.

Consultant doctor to my grandad. "And what would be the problem with you?", my grandad's reply was, "You tell me lad, and then we'll both know".

those are brilliant, crookesey.

In out family, we have a slight variant of the last one of your grandpa's comments:-

in our family it goes

"You tell me, and I can tell you, then we'll both know...!"

Rusty bedsprings by I.P.Knightly
how to pull yourself together by annette curtain
happy days by marion monday
a pain in the arse by emma royd

Rusty bedsprings by I.P.Knightly
how to pull yourself together by annette curtain
happy days by marion monday
a pain in the arse by emma royd

Great Plenty by E. Nuff

A la recherche du temps perdu by Daisy Mist

A Stitch In Time by Justin Case

A Trip To The Dentist by Yin Pain

A Whole Lot Of Cats by Kitt N. Caboodle

Achy Breaky Heart by Ann Guish

Acrophobia Explained by Alfredo Heights

Advanced Maths by Smart E. Pants...

How To Overcome Stress by R.E. Lachs

How To Prevent Leaks by Titus A. Drum

How To Read a Book by Paige Turner

How To Succeed in School by Rita Book


my favourite?

Vegas Divorces by Marion Hayste

My late grandfather.

There are folk dying now who have never died before.

Half of three quarters of nowt, is still bugger all.

I came into this world with bugger all, and still have all of it.

When I die, I will really miss myself.

Consultant doctor to my grandad. "And what would be the problem with you?", my grandad's reply was, "You tell me lad, and then we'll both know".

I love the comment
Half of three quarters of nowt, is still bugger all.
I'm pinching that for my sigline.

I love the comment
I'm pinching that for my sigline.

Stop thief!!! :hihi:

How To Overcome Stress by R.E. Lachs

How To Prevent Leaks by Titus A. Drum

How To Read a Book by Paige Turner

How To Succeed in School by Rita Book


my favourite?

Vegas Divorces by Marion Hayste

Great PT you are the winner of the batty books comp:hihi:

Stop thief!!! :hihi:

Too late, crookesey, possession is nine tenths of the law, as the priest in the exorcist might have said... :D

I apologise, as I was a bit naughty:- I should have waited for your permission, before using your grandpa's comment, but that particular one just tickled me so much, I couldn't resist it. (I have credited your grandpa with the comment, incidentally.)

Too late, crookesey, possession is nine tenths of the law, as the priest in the exorcist might have said... :D

I apologise, as I was a bit naughty:- I should have waited for your permission, before using your grandpa's comment, but that particular one just tickled me so much, I couldn't resist it. (I have credited your grandpa with the comment, incidentally.)

He would have been very proud that someone like you has adopted one of his many sayings. By the way, he was a 100% blade, but I suppose that no one is perfect. ;)

Use it with both my grandfathers and my blessings young lady, it will be in good hands with you. :thumbsup:

Another one that might tickle your sense of humour. His GP told him that he was best advised to stop smoking his pipe and drinking his glasses of stout. Grandad said, "Have you got your prescription book handy doctor?" The doctor said "Yes, why do you ask?". Grandad replied "Either write me out a prescription for a hole in the ground, or stop being daft doctor". I loved that man.

He would have been very proud that someone like you has adopted one of his many sayings. By the way, he was a 100% blade, but I suppose that no one is perfect. ;)

Use it with both my grandfathers and my blessings young lady, it will be in good hands with you. :thumbsup:

Another one that might tickle your sense of humour. His GP told him that he was best advised to stop smoking his pipe and drinking his glasses of stout. Grandad said, "Have you got your prescription book handy doctor?" The doctor said "Yes, why do you ask?". Grandad replied "Either write me out a prescription for a hole in the ground, or stop being daft doctor". I loved that man.

He sounds a proper chap, he does, crookesey, bless him!

That comment did bring a huge chuckle to me, it reminds me of the cartoon of Andy-CApp, in the daily mirror.

He's in the doc's surgery, having a medical, and the doc says to him something along the lines of

"The best thing you can do, Andy, is give up the cigs, the booze, and the fast women!"

To which, quick as a wink, Andy Capp replies

"And what's the Next best thing?!

lol.

The other one, very similar to your grandpa's saying, that I used to chortle at, is the one that says:-

"Give up the cigs, the booze, and the wild women... it won't actually make you live any longer:- it'll just feel like it...!"

He sounds a proper chap, he does, crookesey, bless him!

That comment did bring a huge chuckle to me, it reminds me of the cartoon of Andy-CApp, in the daily mirror.

He's in the doc's surgery, having a medical, and the doc says to him something along the lines of

"The best thing you can do, Andy, is give up the cigs, the booze, and the fast women!"

To which, quick as a wink, Andy Capp replies

"And what's the Next best thing?!

lol.

The other one, very similar to your grandpa's saying, that I used to chortle at, is the one that says:-

"Give up the cigs, the booze, and the wild women... it won't actually make you live any longer:- it'll just feel like it...!"

I never realised until this moment, that my grandad was actually Andy Capp. He comes to me very occasaionally in my sleep, when I close my eyes I really look forward to him treating me like a kid, he told such wonderful lies, that I believed without question.

I reckon that I'm a really lucky 62 years old.

When I was a kid and misbehaving my grandfather used to say:
I've teld thee once twice, three times, I shan't be so long afoore I tell thee ageean, na geeor magin abaht!

Another one of his was: "Salt tastes nasty when there's none on".

Granddads...
There was a story in the family that during the blitz the sirens went and everyone got out of bed and ran for the shelter, half way there my grandmother turned round to go back. "what's up" my Grandfather said, "I've forgotten my false teeth" she said.
He pulled her into the shelter saying " Bugger that, their dropping bombs not fish and chips" !!!

Oh, and he didn't like the neighbors on "tother side", as I remember it, he was "A bit Dodgy" and she were a "Rum un" and "They were a reight pair together"....

Granddads...
There was a story in the family that during the blitz the sirens went and everyone got out of bed and ran for the shelter, half way there my grandmother turned round to go back. "what's up" my Grandfather said, "I've forgotten my false teeth" she said.
He pulled her into the shelter saying " Bugger that, their dropping bombs not fish and chips" !!!

Oh, and he didn't like the neighbors on "tother side", as I remember it, he was "A bit Dodgy" and she were a "Rum un" and "They were a reight pair together"....

hiya can you remember these sets of words,ash nook, ash grate, suff grate,oyal cloth, distemper, coyal grate, clooers prop,
clooers line,dolly posher,wesh tub,tooerst fork,coyal skuttle,my nan had what she called her black hafted knife, it was a carver.
i remember different ones asking if they could borrow it as theirs was blunt, truth was they proberbly hadn't got one,nans was ancient this was just after w w 2.
just remembered we called a left handed person a dolly posh.

Granddads...
There was a story in the family that during the blitz the sirens went and everyone got out of bed and ran for the shelter, half way there my grandmother turned round to go back. "what's up" my Grandfather said, "I've forgotten my false teeth" she said.
He pulled her into the shelter saying " Bugger that, their dropping bombs not fish and chips" !!!

Oh, and he didn't like the neighbors on "tother side", as I remember it, he was "A bit Dodgy" and she were a "Rum un" and "They were a reight pair together"....

They weren't ""Two fer-a-pair"" then?

My dad loves to use the sayings:-

"They an't gorra brain to share between em!"

"If they 'ad another brain, they'd still only have one-an-'ayfe!"

hiya can you remember these sets of words,ash nook, ash grate, suff grate,oyal cloth, distemper, coyal grate, clooers prop,

were an oyal cloth like a sou'wester?

Oyal case wuz like lino... Tha purrit on't floo-er and put a peg rug oo'er that.

(And if you weren't careful, my mother, her brother and sisters would use a red-hot poker to burn an oyal, int oilcase, big enough to play Marbles in. strategically hidden by the pegrug by the hearth.

Coyal Grate were we'eer t' coyal man poured the sacks of coyal into't cellar.

A clooers prop were what tha held Clooers line up wi', warnt it?

were an oyal cloth like a sou'wester?

Oyal case wuz like lino... Tha purrit on't floo-er and put a peg rug oo'er that.

(And if you weren't careful, my mother, her brother and sisters would use a red-hot poker to burn an oyal, int oilcase, big enough to play Marbles in. strategically hidden by the pegrug by the hearth.

Coyal Grate were we'eer t' coyal man poured the sacks of coyal into't cellar.

A clooers prop were what tha held Clooers line up wi', warnt it?

Surely tha means mabs?

Surely tha means mabs?

Aye, mabs... :nod:

were an oyal cloth like a sou'wester?

Oyal case wuz like lino... Tha purrit on't floo-er and put a peg rug oo'er that.

(And if you weren't careful, my mother, her brother and sisters would use a red-hot poker to burn an oyal, int oilcase, big enough to play Marbles in. strategically hidden by the pegrug by the hearth.

Coyal Grate were we'eer t' coyal man poured the sacks of coyal into't cellar.

A clooers prop were what tha held Clooers line up wi', warnt it?

hiya thad luk a reightun wee a rowl ur oilcloth onthe heeard.

Surely tha means mabs?

hiya i remember playing mabs in a water grate in the school yard, and some kids wanted to play with ball bearings but that was not played against the glass cats eye mabs, nor pot ones they were called stonks.

ps there were two grates just over the wall at the corner of cavendish street and broomspring lane at springfield school.

My Grandad use to say loads of rhymes.. infact I hardly remember him talking normally just in rhymes...

I just got back from't station railway
where I met a bark and it dogged at me
so I pick a street outta a stoo ern
and nearly necked its knock off.

There were tons more... maybe someone could shed some light on this an all, dunno if it's a sheff thing or just my gramps but h used to call all girls in family "lizzie dripping from't lard factory" regardless of thier names.
Gem x

hiya i wore clogs around 1944 i was the only one i remember having them, my mum would take the steel from around the soul and nail bars of leather strips across the sole.the clog shop was at the bottom of brookhill and garden st, opposite townhead st, i still remember the ditty kids would say when i walked in them it was " cloggy one cloggy two give em a kick and that will do"

I too was born in 1938 and I remember walking to Morley Street school in clogs.

My Grandad use to say loads of rhymes.. infact I hardly remember him talking normally just in rhymes...

I just got back from't station railway
where I met a bark and it dogged at me
so I pick a street outta a stoo ern
and nearly necked its knock off.

There were tons more... maybe someone could shed some light on this an all, dunno if it's a sheff thing or just my gramps but h used to call all girls in family "lizzie dripping from't lard factory" regardless of thier names.
Gem x

My grandpa was full of daft, and nonsense rhymes, which he used to recite for us,

I remember these:-

"Not last night, but the night before,
Three tom-cats came knocking at my door
One had a fiddle,
One had a drum,
And one had a pancake stuck to his bum!"

"One fine day in the middle of the night,
Two dead men got up to fight,
Back to back, They faced each other,
Drew their swords,
and shot each other"

"Old *insert name here" is a funny 'un
With a face like a Spanish onion,
And a nose like a squashed tomato,
We'll have her for tea!"

"Old *insert name here* In't no good,
Chop her up for fire-wood,
When she's dead,
We'll Stand her on her head,
And then we'll have some ginger bread!"

"Once upon a time,
The birds sh--*cough* the line,
And the monkeys chewed tobacco,
The little piggies ran,
With their fingers up their bum,
And asked,
What was the matter?' "

"The cat,
Crept into the crypt,
Cr*pped,
and crept out again!"

(Such-a-body) sells fish,
three ha-pence a dish,
don't buy it, don't buy it,
cause it stinks when you fry it....

Used to love the rude innuendo ones too..

Little miss muffet, did sit on her tuffet.
eating her curds and corn,
but it wasn't a spider, that sat down beside her,
it was little Boy Blue with his horn...

And then there was a cluster of "Mary had a little lamb" one's that we used to giggle at in a corner of the play ground..

It's funny how what's acceptable has changed over the years. I remember giving my fiancee a novel called "Forever Amber" and my future father in law saying to me "In't that a mucky book" ?
Well it may have been then, But today it's play school stuff

A pal of mine told me this one today and I had never heard it before.
If he told his dad he was bored his dad would say "P@@s up thi back an play wit steam"It`s a new one on me.

My father used to say "If thy ad another wit, thad be an aif wit"

A pal of mine told me this one today and I had never heard it before.
If he told his dad he was bored his dad would say "P@@s up thi back an play wit steam"It`s a new one on me.

My father's version was "Pee dahn thy leg and play wit steam". Another of his, for a disgruntled man was "Ees gorra face like a rich man's arse". I'm not sure how many rich men he knew though!

Mike

Derbyshire born,
Derbyshire bred,
Strong in't arm,
But weak in't head.

Mi dads favorite saying was "its like shi**in in bed wecken" when you did something he didnt aggree with,
he would say to mi mam put kettle on lass im avin a strip wesh toneet,

Remember when you broke an arm or a leg you didn't have a plaster cast on it they put a pot on.

One of my mothers` favourites was, when we asked her where she was going she would say" There and back to see how far it is"

One of my mothers` favourites was, when we asked her where she was going she would say" There and back to see how far it is"

An' if it weren't far enough, ah' s'll go agee-an!

Two more of Dad's were:
One of these mornings, tha'll weken up and find thissen de'ad
Tha'll be daft when tha grows up

Mike

I'll probably be prosecuted for ‘inciting racial hatred’ :hihi: but a common saying ‘down our way’ was:

As black as t'fire back.

I'll probably be prosecuted for ‘inciting racial hatred’ :hihi: but a common saying ‘down our way’ was:

As black as t'fire back.

My mother used to say "As black as't hills of Calcutta!" - thing was I'm sure it was meant to be the hole of Calcutta!

Na den all'onyer

Darn bytwicker weertwatter runs oer'tweer

"Sheffieldish as it's Spoke". It is a good book. I loaned it to a friend (Castleford) whilst working abroad. A few days later he said, very true. A dint understand wot he ment!! No one on the plant could understand us on the radio's. It came in handy with such terms as r'tha masshin r'wot. response was am'checkin smallboilerwatterlevel. Our US bosses never twigged it. In our own way we are indeed Dee Da's. :)

My mother used to say "As black as't hills of Calcutta!"...My mum would say "t' colour o' t' cats cods!". We never did find out what t' cat's cods were....:confused:

My mum would say "t' colour o' t' cats cods!". We never did find out what t' cat's cods were....:confused:
I can guess.

My mum would say "t' colour o' t' cats cods!". We never did find out what t' cat's cods were....:confused:

Well Hillsbro.I asked this in an earlier thread and the answer is..........The cats erm....bits n bobs..:o

has any of you heard of a "CAWSYEDGE" meaning the edge of the pavement....spent many a hour back in the fifties sat there picking the melted pitch!!!

has any of you heard of a "CAWSYEDGE" meaning the edge of the pavement....spent many a hour back in the fifties sat there picking the melted pitch!!!

Oh yes....isn't it strange how on here we see things written down that we never saw written before.......just heard them and never questioned how it would be spelt if it were written down....Causeway Edge I suppose...or the Kerb.:hihi:

Oh yes....isn't it strange how on here we see things written down that we never saw written before.......just heard them and never questioned how it would be spelt if it were written down....Causeway Edge I suppose...or the Kerb.:hihi:

I spell it "causey-edge".

has any of you heard of a "CAWSYEDGE" meaning the edge of the pavement....spent many a hour back in the fifties sat there picking the melted pitch!!!

Oh yes!!!! With a lolly stick :hihi: then getting ( dunn! ) of your mam who then ran to the fridge to get the butter to put on your clothes to try to get the pitch off..:D

Hi my grandad used to say "awl folks in t world are mad cept me and thee an i'm a bit worried about thee"

Well Hillsbro.I asked this in an earlier thread and the answer is..........The cats erm....bits n bobs..:o

As in a Knights cod piece.:hihi:

Well Hillsbro.I asked this in an earlier thread and the answer is..........The cats erm....bits n bobs..:o Oh I see...:blush: If my dear old mum ever knew, she didn't let on..;)

Another couple I say often are, "Trazzed all oer`t shant" ran all over the place.

Oh yes!!!! With a lolly stick :hihi: then getting ( dunn! ) of your mam who then ran to the fridge to get the butter to put on your clothes to try to get the pitch off..:D

You had a fridge!!

You had a fridge!!

Talking of fridges does anybody remember when you could get things like fridges,t.v's on two weeks approval. I remember in the early 60's getting fridge after fridge before we decided on one, which until recently was still working well in OZ as a beer fridge almost 40 years on

You had a fridge!!

Ok Duffems...You got me! It was the stone table in the pantry,and it was probably marg and not butter.Iwas trying to sound posh.:hihi:

I have not read all this thread so apologies in advance if this question has been asked before.

Yesterday my mate was telling me a story and said 'the whole bag of mashings'. Now I know what he meant when he said it, but does anyone know it's origins, and is it a Sheffield saying.

How about 'They stood out like Chapel hat pegs'? What does that mean, I wonder?

How about 'They stood out like Chapel hat pegs'? What does that mean, I wonder?

always makes me laugh:hihi:

How about 'They stood out like Chapel hat pegs'? What does that mean, I wonder?

Or Scammel starter buttons.

How about 'They stood out like Chapel hat pegs'? What does that mean, I wonder? It must mean they stood out like these (http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/2361404011_d741eb7d0a.jpg%3Fv%3D0&imgrefurl=http://flickr.com/photos/34594617%40N00/2361404011/&usg=__pQCp5SVshC8zdMF-T2hdG8TkY5M=&h=1438&w=1911&sz=83&hl=en&start=12&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=KtfQ9bGhhZ_PDM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522hat%2Bpegs%2522%26hl%3Den%26um%3 D1), I imagine...;)

carnt stop a pig in a poke (meaning bow legged )
wis tha bin thee (where have you been )
tha looks like a black hole of calcutta (meaning you look dirty)

It must mean they stood out like these (http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/2361404011_d741eb7d0a.jpg%3Fv%3D0&imgrefurl=http://flickr.com/photos/34594617%40N00/2361404011/&usg=__pQCp5SVshC8zdMF-T2hdG8TkY5M=&h=1438&w=1911&sz=83&hl=en&start=12&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=KtfQ9bGhhZ_PDM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522hat%2Bpegs%2522%26hl%3Den%26um%3 D1), I imagine...;)
Yeah, the Smiley with the bad eye tells it all, hillsboro.

Found these in the 'Fletchers van' Thread if they help...


Don't eat Fletchers bread
It makes you sh*t like lead
No bloody wonder
You fart like thunder
Don't eat Fletchers bread



Fletchers bread
Made of lead
If you eat it
You'll drop dead

Remember this one?

My fathers the lord mayor of sheffield
he works in the sewers by night
and when he comes home in the morning
he's covered all over in ....

Remember this one?

My fathers the lord mayor of sheffield
he works in the sewers by night
and when he comes home in the morning
he's covered all over in ....
Some say that he died of a fever
Some say that he died of a fit
But I know far better than they do
He died of the smell of the ....

Some say he was buried in gravel
Some say he was buried in grit
But I know far better than they do
They buried him in six feet of ......;)

Or Scammel starter buttons.

Organ-stops was the alternative in our house, if it wasn't Chapel-hat-pegs.

Some say that he died of a fever
Some say that he died of a fit
But I know far better than they do
He died of the smell of the ....

Some say he was buried in gravel
Some say he was buried in grit
But I know far better than they do
They buried him in six feet of ......;):

For the chorus we used to then sing:

So shine up your buttons with brasso
it's only three ha'pence a tin
you can buy it or flog it from woolies
but I don't think they'll have any in.

Some say that he died of a fever
Some say that he died of a fit
But I know far better than they do
He died of the smell of the ....

Some say he was buried in gravel
Some say he was buried in grit
But I know far better than they do
They buried him in six feet of ......;)

........"sweet violets" was at the end of every line so as to avoid the obvious word!

Not sure if the word sossing has been named on this thread....As in stop sossing about on the setee..

Can't remember if this old one is Sheffield or Chinese ?
"Man with hole in pocket feels cocky all day"


I remember that one, along with the extra line........
But man with hole in both pockets, he not feel too cocky!

Man who walk through airport door sideways going to Bangkok..;)

Organ-stops was the alternative in our house, if it wasn't Chapel-hat-pegs.
I always understood 'organ stops', to refer to eyes, as in 'His eyes stood out like organ stops'. So you could say 'They stood out like chapel hat pegs, and his eyes stood out like organ stops.' That is if one wants to be risque.

OWLS
If I had the wings of an amgel
and the dirty black arse of a crow
I´d fly right over Bramhall Lane
and **** on those below

I'll probably be prosecuted for ‘inciting racial hatred’ :hihi: but a common saying ‘down our way’ was:

As black as t'fire back.

I remember in our house it used to be "as black as Tommy Ward's Chimney"

You had a fridge!!

All we has was a stone table intcellar and we thought we were posh

I remembered a saying that was used ways back, for anything disagreable or sub-standard. It was 'under 't arm'. I suppose the equivalent today would be 'the pits'.

I certainly remember the saying 'under t' arm'. The modern day equivalent in my mind is 'A bag o' ****e'

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cynthia
[B]I have a list of Yorkshire & Lancashire sentences that only people from these two counties would know.

Here are a few of them-

Intitot
,

Hi Folks, sorry could not condense this but worth a read taken fromc an you speak Yorkshire

CAN YOU SPEAK YORKSHIRE?
How well do you know Yorkshire? See how many of the 50 phrases below you can decipher.

1. Intitot
2. Giusit

3. Summatsupeer

4. Gerritetten

5. Gerartanit

6. Supwithee

7. Iantgorrit

8. Smarraweim

9. Azeeginiter

10. Geeitmester

11. Eezgooinoam

12. Asthmum

13. Asthe gorrit withy

14. Purremineer

15. Ayampt eared nowt

16. Astha gorrit reight

17. Thalafter gerra newun

18. Eesezitintis burraberritis

19. Lerrus gerrus ands washd

20. Summonemz gorra gerroff

21. Weev gorra gerras imbux

22. Thamn gerrit lernt

23. Shut thigob

24. Owzeeno

25. Berritinters
26. Nardendee, wotdardooin
27. Asta seenim ont telly

28 Corforus ararpastate intmormin

29. It dunt marrer

30. Lerrus gurrat pixchers

31. Astagorratanner

32. Eenosenowtabartit

33. Eez gunna gerra lorra lolly fer

34. Lerrer gerrontbus

35. Essdurant purrizead undert watr

36. Eesezeantadit

37. Oowereewi, wuree weeissen

38. Ateltim burriwunt lissen

39. Lerrim purrisaton

40. Astle clowt thee if tha dungiare

41. Tintintin

42. Gerrarry tergithi and weeit

43. Eez gorris atooam

44. Thawantser wash thieroils aht

45. Middads gorra jag

46. Thakkan if tha wants

47. Tantad nowt dunnatit as I nose

48. Cantha kumterourowse tuneet

49. Weers gaffa

50. Geraway withi thaduntno



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Love these.
Unless your from Yorkshire you will not have much idea what they say.
I think its brilliant.
Its like they say Sheffielder's and Yorkshire people have their own language.

[QUOTE=vhopkinson;537737]

Love these.
Unless your from Yorkshire you will not have much idea what they say.
I think its brilliant.
Its like they say Sheffielder's and Yorkshire people have their own language.

Brilliant. It's a long time since I was in the UK but could still manage them. It brought back many happy memories.

My late mother always used to say: Barnsley, where they eyte muck!

My grandma would describe a bright, intelligent child as being "not behind t' dooer" or say that there was "no flies on him/her".

My grandma would describe a bright, intelligent child as being "not behind t' dooer" or say that there was "no flies on him/her".

"no flies on him/her.........only t's**t weer they'd bin!
Duffems

There was a saying,'Bang under', or 'Under t' arm'. I always took it to mean, what would now be termed, ' A load of rubbish'.

another my mum used to say was its no gud iding behind bin ar can still hear thi ears wiggin made no sense at the time but it does now ????

I remember that one, along with the extra line........
But man with hole in both pockets, he not feel too cocky!
I think this was by the same Chinese writer "He who gos to bed with itchy bum wake up with smelly finger":D:D:D

Don't forget "He stood out like a sore thumb ", "He were as Black as coyle " or "As fat as a bacon pig" and As thick as pig (manure ?)...

down under blankets dark and deep
two little T**ds lay fast asleep
dont awake them from their rest
Beetchams pills have done their best

Don't know if this has been mentioned already but if you were stood where you shouldn't be no matter where you were stood you were always "In't road"

Don't know if this has been mentioned already but if you were stood where you shouldn't be no matter where you were stood you were always "In't road"

So the answer was well, I'll git art o't road:D

There was a saying,'Bang under', or 'Under t' arm'. I always took it to mean, what would now be termed, ' A load of rubbish'.

my mother taught my little sister a "slapping-your-hand-under-the armpit" movement to go with that one, Texas.

How about having a drink shoved in your hand and being told to get it down your neck..

Another one not sure if it's been mentioned but if you were moaning or talking to much you were told to stop slavering

Another one not sure if it's been mentioned but if you were moaning or talking to much you were told to stop slavering

I thought that mean't drooling!

I thought that mean't drooling!

same thing :)

Don't forget "He stood out like a sore thumb ", "He were as Black as coyle " or "As fat as a bacon pig" and As thick as pig (manure ?)...And "as wide as t' Wicker arches"..:)

slav·er 1 (slvr)
intr.v. slav·ered, slav·er·ing, slav·ers
1. To slobber; drool.
2. To behave in an obsequious manner; fawn. See Synonyms at fawn1.
n.
1. Saliva drooling from the mouth.
2. Senseless and effusive talk; drivel.
[Middle English slaveren, probably from Old Norse slafra.]

Thy face its a funny'un
Tha's a nooaz like a spanish onion
Eyes like two squashed termarters
and teeath like grave stooans

Thy face its a funny'un
Tha's a nooaz like a spanish onion
Eyes like two squashed termarters
and teeath like grave stooans
At this point in time, sounds about right buck.

Another one not sure if it's been mentioned but if you were moaning or talking to much you were told to stop slavering

Then it's, "A've just been played hell wi me for moaning".....:hihi:

There was always a way to clean crude saying up as well as in
"E were a reight closet "
or "Tha can stick it wier sun dunt shine"..
And "if tha gets that finger any further up thi nooers thi eye'sll fall out"

What was the one that went.

Your ears are like flowers _ Colly flowers.
Your teeth are like stars _ They come out at night.
Your cheeks are like petals _ Bicycle petals.

There was always a way to clean crude saying up as well as in
"E were a reight closet "
or "Tha can stick it wier sun dunt shine"..
And "if tha gets that finger any further up thi nooers thi eye'sll fall out"

in our house it was "thi fore-ee'ad will cave in!"

Thy face its a funny'un
Tha's a nooaz like a spanish onion
Eyes like two squashed termarters
and teeath like grave stooans

my grandma and grandpa used to sing this to us, but slightly altered:-
they'd put our name in the rhyme, was one difference.

"Our Talker's a funny-un
wi' a face like a Spanish onion,
and a nose like a squashed tomato,
we'll have her for tea!"

Then there was the fast speak ones -
I chased a bug around a tree...
or my favorite back then -
Polish it behind the door........:blush:

[QUOTE=grinder;6553860]Then there was the fast speak ones -
I chased a bug around a tree...

followed by

I'll get his blood he knows I will

Mike

Another one not sure if it's been mentioned but if you were moaning or talking to much you were told to stop slavering

Yeah, slavering was when you were goin on a bit or esp. when being cheeky to adults. My Mum used to describe people who were "slavering on" in an argument.

And my Dad used to tell me I had "more rattle than a can of mabs"

I have heard of this one too - with an extra verse and set to a tune....... I'm not sure I can write in true 'Sheffield' style but I'll have a go.



Rate Dah'n in coyle oil,
wheer t' muck slats on t'winders,
we've used our coyl up,
n rate dah'n to cinders.

Ee wen yon bayliff cums
E'll never feend us
Cos weer rate dah'n in coyle oil
Wheer t' muck slats on t'winders


then with a 'posh' accent,

Down in the basement,
where the dirt accumulates on the casement,
we've burned all our anthracite
And we are now using residue.

When the landlord's representative calls
He will not locate us.
Because we are residing in the basement
where the dirt accumulates on the casement,

I can sing the tine, sort of, but just can't remember which popular song it's nicked from....... I'll keep thinking.
I remember my dad singing that to us!

We (the wife and I) were discussing names given to school meals when we were kids. We came up with 'Black Death', that was prunes and custard; 'Dead Baby'; that was jam roll. But the absolute worst, and I don't know what the hell it was, 'Blood and matter custard and green snot pie. I hope I haven't offended anyone here, sounds good though.

Hey Texas, I have another line or two for the last one ... don't ask me where I got it from ... but I remember it was the start of a little ditty. Scab and matter custard, green snot pie, two dogs giblets and one cat's eye, mix them all up with a cold cup of sick .... Then there was a pause ... and the kid who'd recited it then said "Drink it". learned that at school in Wincobank

we had one called attercliffe sunset by the dinner ladies which was sponge with strawberry jam and coconut on top.

That's beautiful darra. They certainly looked after you.

I live in a house where the kitchen is separated from the lounge/living room by a hallway. So, if I'm in the kitchen I'm in the house, if I'm in the hallway I'm still in the house. My dog was acting up the other day, him and me were in the kitchen, so I bawled at him 'Gerrin that 'ouse.' Meaning for him to high tail it into the lounge/living room. And we're already in the house. Is that a Sheffield thing or what?

Theres nothing like a good sides splitting, fall down, laugh out loud with uncontrollable laughter at something that you might see or hear and find very funny and amusing. *** When we were kids there was another type of laughter that did'nt really fit that criteria and my mother used to say 'shurup thi gostering wil tha', 'gostering' was like a smirking subdued cheeky laugh that she did'nt find amusing. *** I've no idea if that was a common Sheffield or Yorkshire saying, her mother was of Scottish descent and her father (my grandparents) was from the Retford area!

My favourite Sheffield saying is either Up The Owls or Wednesday Till I Die!

One of the words I love is "TRANKELMENTS"..
According to my mam my dad had a box full...
I know because if he left anything out she'd tell me to put it with the rest of his trankelments

One of the words I love is "TRANKELMENTS"..
According to my mam my dad had a box full...
I know because if he left anything out she'd tell me to put with the rest of his trankelments

Hi grinder - I remember 'Trankelments' we had drawers full of em!

Yes It was strange how my mum had "Bits and bobs" but my dad had tranklements.
Though I've just thought he must have had some bits and bobs as well because I remember hearing him telling mum he'd had to show them to the doctor and cough..

We've all heard things described as "stone cold" after the stone keeping slabs everyone had.
But, in our house it was always "clock cold" ????
Does anyone know why clock relates to cold?

We've all heard things described as "stone cold" after the stone keeping slabs everyone had.
But, in our house it was always "clock cold" ????
Does anyone know why clock relates to cold?

I thought it was clot cold........could that be clotting blood

I thought it was clot cold........could that be clotting blood

You might be right? they sound similar? I could have miss-heard.

always heard it as clock cold

If your mother was at a neighbours talking and you wanted to know where she was, your dad would say she's next door 'cantin'.

always heard it as clock cold

clock-cold in our house, too. I still use it, about cups of tea that have gone cold.

Yep - my mum always said "clock cold". I wonder where it came from?

Yep - my mum always said "clock cold". I wonder where it came from?

Maybe "clock" refers to the amount of time the cup of tea had stood to get to that degree of coldness? (Just thinking out loud here, hillsborough)

Because we can't be clock-cold if we get chilled, can we? We might be "Starved to dee-ath!" as my grandma would have said, or "Perished", but we can't be clock-cold. Not even when we are so cold we have the "Hot-aches"

but, yeah, if I've put a cuppa down, long enough, and forgotten about it, by the time I've picked it back up, it's clock-cold.

And I always thoughtit was Clack cold ! I don't know what it means though.

always heard it as clock cold
And I always thought it was 'clap cowd'.

Perhaps there were two sayings clock and clack or clap ????? :huh:

always heard it as clock cold

hiya, never, never, cold always cowd, like to use both clot, and clock ,clot cowd ,and clock cowd. another few ,ar betthe owt, tha nows nowt ut sooert,tha can plears thesen wot tha duz, its nowt ta du wimee wot tha getts upta wen arm not theer,as longas tha dunt bring any truble ooerm withe.tha thinks evry thing tha duz iz new wellarl telthe dis ar did same wen ar wer tha age and ar owd fella did same wen he wer a lad sow nowts nu ,another was lardedar,any body who talks posh (english) arl se she wer ruff luckin shid a clock lyka a bag er obbin futs, pikkin de wilk was another
everybody seemed to have a nickname i remember at school,i was wilber,there was a gregory his was peggyleg, oats was titus ,chico, barrel, barth, bongo, dixie, duck-duck, pearler, ivan,patsie,miffa, jinx,peps. a couple who grew up with my mother were still called their nicknames 30 years after they left school, one was spud smith, the other was tops fiander.

some were natural talkers they would rabbit on a bit, or talk hind leg off a donkey, or chattin, or has ta bin injected wi a grammerfone needle, or shut the gob an gee the ar -e a chance.

Something that came to mind right out of the blue today,I haven't gone back through the thread so I don't know if it's been mentioned.
"Thar wunt jump im mar grave as quick"A favourite saying of my mothers when someone sat in her chair

Something that came to mind right out of the blue today,I haven't gone back through the thread so I don't know if it's been mentioned.
"Thar wunt jump im mar grave as quick"A favourite saying of my mothers when someone sat in her chair

To which the reply would come "Arr, I wud - if it were warm!"

Perhaps there were two sayings clock and clack or clap ????? :huh:

I've been thinking about this one. I remember when I was a child playing out in the winter me mam would call me in, put her warm hands on my face and say that I was clock cold. She'd then put a scarf, hat and mittens (not always the ones on the end of strings thank goodness) on me and send me back out. So would I be too fanciful to say that it's clock cold to do with faces being cold?

thanks for the nostalgia

I've been thinking about this one. I remember when I was a child playing out in the winter me mam would call me in, put her warm hands on my face and say that I was clock cold. She'd then put a scarf, hat and mittens (not always the ones on the end of strings thank goodness) on me and send me back out. So would I be too fanciful to say that it's clock cold to do with faces being cold?

hiya i remember we round where i lived in the 40s and fifties more the 40s we didn't wear gloves unless someone could knit for you we used to wear a pair of wool socks as gloves, my mum knitted me a balaclava just around the war end all the wool she used was khaki coloured it was very itchy and when i complained she would say "theres nowt els so gerron weeit or get cowd"
can't say if this rhyme has been written on this web but i remember it from my distant past.

the boy stood on the burning deck
pickin his nooars like mad
he rolled em into little balls and threw them at his dad

it was to do with the fact of the cold on your face,face dial on a clock,or to put it another waythas left thi brains ont cellar eeard,has tha no gumption ??

In our house it was 'clock' cowd, and a clock is slang for cockroach.

In our house it was 'clock' cowd, and a clock is slang for cockroach.

A black clock is a beetle.

http://www.plantpress.com/wildlife/o248-blackclock.php

looks rather like a cockroach perhaps thats where the term originated from.

Don't stand theer like souse, this cuppa tea'll be clock cowd in a minnit........(just heard that in my head in my mothers voice :hihi:)

Oh and Blackclocks and Cockroaches....I saw Blackclocks a plenty in Attercliffe as a kid then saw Cockroaches in Singapore as an adult....'roaches are brown and blackclocks are black. The 'roaches were big and ugly and the blackclocks not so big but just as ugly.......I hated them both.....equally.....:gag:

In our house it was Clot Cold.

Something that came to mind right out of the blue today,I haven't gone back through the thread so I don't know if it's been mentioned.
"Thar wunt jump im mar grave as quick"A favourite saying of my mothers when someone sat in her chair

Yeah, still used all the time in our house.

When some things broken "It's had its chips"...
Mind you "it were on it's last legs"...:suspect:

When some things broken "It's had its chips"...
Mind you "it were on it's last legs"...:suspect:

hiya
hear these sayings, get thisen oreer an downt be long abaart it
feet hurt, = my dogs are barkin.
pass me that,= a carnt av gorra booen inme arm.
av gorra reight eeardake.
arv gorra oil in me jumpa = purrit on bakta frunt den.
weer tha gooin,= am gooin tu skosh weers tha tink am gooin bak u fosters
remember, trazzin, mucky sod, derty herb,shut de trap,or eight, or eight, keep the airon.
the words that were used when i was young, were broke= brock, broken =brockn, remove house =flit,, try to get out of that then, geerrartu dat den if da can,
i remember just after the war 46 ish walking on bath st with voting day photo's of mr morris i was about seven and the kids were chanting vote ,vote for mr morris you cant vote for a better man and we'll put old winchy in an old tin can the winchy was l arden whinch who owned the brush works on bath street and he was not at all pleased i dont think.i think it was for the council elections not sure.

Anybody remember being told to like it or lump it when you had to do something you didn't want to do?
Why did you have to lump it?

Joining in without reading the whole posting yet but...................... Shefeldus are know as Deedars. My OH comes out with blinders like Da dunt du dat da dus dis (you don't do that you do this). Contrary to what most outlanders believe, Shefeldus don't thee and tha - they dee and dar.

Joining in without reading the whole posting yet but...................... Shefeldus are know as Deedars. My OH comes out with blinders like Da dunt du dat da dus dis (you don't do that you do this). Contrary to what most outlanders believe, Shefeldus don't thee and tha - they dee and dar.

Y0u could be right, I remember as kids we shouted the chat up line "nah den dee dah fowl bleeder", it didn't work .

Willybite.

My gran always used "I can't, I've got a bone in my arm/ bone in my leg!" comment, and I still use it to this day.

this one and the other one about sheffield sayings have got to be the best threads ever.

:loopy:Oh Lord, I just know that I'll regret posting this one, but I'll do it anyway.If we asked my mum what was for dinner, she'd reply " a run raand table and a kick at t'cellar door".
Has anyone come across this before, or was I abducted by aliens as a child?:loopy:

:loopy:Oh Lord, I just know that I'll regret posting this one, but I'll do it anyway.If we asked my mum what was for dinner, she'd reply " a run raand table and a kick at t'cellar door".
Has anyone come across this before, or was I abducted by aliens as a child?:loopy:

I think we must've had the same mother....

You came out of the house and saw some strange kids walking down the street.
So you shouted .

You'll never be a scout,
with your shirt hanging out,
Ginger, your barmy...:banana:

If they turned round you'd do a little dance then run back into the house till they'd gone.....

What on earth was all that about ?:huh:

Joining in without reading the whole posting yet but...................... Shefeldus are know as Deedars. My OH comes out with blinders like Da dunt du dat da dus dis (you don't do that you do this). Contrary to what most outlanders believe, Shefeldus don't thee and tha - they dee and dar.

Yep! when I was a lad, if you wanted to say, "what are you doing, you?", you said "Wot dar dooin dee?"

Although we did use thee and thar as well.

Willybite.

My gran always used "I can't, I've got a bone in my arm/ bone in my leg!" comment, and I still use it to this day.

:loopy:Oh Lord, I just know that I'll regret posting this one, but I'll do it anyway.If we asked my mum what was for dinner, she'd reply " a run raand table and a kick at t'cellar door".
Has anyone come across this before, or was I abducted by aliens as a child?:loopy:

You came out of the house and saw some strange kids walking down the street.
So you shouted .

You'll never be a scout,
with your shirt hanging out,
Ginger, your barmy...:banana:

If they turned round you'd do a little dance then run back into the house till they'd gone.....

What on earth was all that about ?:huh:


I still use all these on my kids

You say to someone 'Weer's tha' been?' They used to reply 'Theer 'n back to see how far it is.'
I've got to say though I'm not comfortable with calling a Sheffielder by the name 'Dee da'. I can understand the origin but to me it's a bit of a p**s take.

..........
Skids99. What's this, Morse Code?

My dad used to say someone was 'wide as Wicker arches', had 'a face as long as Norfolk St' and, if he thought someone a bit daft they were a 'sooner'! I remember being asked at primary school what the person in charge of a workplace was called... all I could think of was t'gaffer, but I knew that's not what the teacher wanted to hear so I kept quiet!

My mum used to recite poetry to us, one of her poems was 'Ah Sal"

Ah Sal's got a new bonnit
It's a stunner, wi' red roises rate dahn 't' back.
Ah Sal went to church on sundy
An' all 't' forks stood up an' laughed.
"T' parson gets up and sez, 'Ay Missus, this int a flahr show
Its a place o' warship!
So ah Sal gets up and sez
Wot's up wi' thee bald eead
Tha's nowt in it an' nowt on it
Would tha like a feather outa my new bonnit.

My mother in law used to say, 'Promises were like pie crust, ready to be broken'.

If I'd misunderstood something he had said my dad used to tell me "Thas got wrong end o stick" ?

What stick and which was the right end I never found out.....:D

Perhaps it was the same stick that you sometimes got the shooty end of. When you came off worse in a deal.

Mike

Perhaps it was the same stick that you sometimes got the shooty end of. When you came off worse in a deal.

Mike

Sounds familiar....:hihi:

Sounds familiar....:hihi:

hiya i remember when i was seven in our class at school one day we had a drawing lesson well in those days the teacher was always right and you did what she said to the letter, anyhow back to the drawing ,i remember some of the class were looking about wondering what to draw, it was in the afternoon i think so the teacher a mrs draper told us to draw something that was seen on way to school, so me what had i seen, a funeral so i drew it, i think it was wrong as she took it to my last teacher when she came back she said it was quite good.i suppose it was her fault in a way asking us to think of something we had seen on the way to school ,mind we might have been sat thinking while hometime. sorry about no sheffieldish in the above letter but it just came to me when i started poddling
i remember this it was thar brane box tha nose nowt , thart furreva cummin an gooin, . the young ones today say, up west street, we always said down west street or up moor, or darnt moor, depending which way you were going or just having a stroll , ont moor

Tha'rt like a fart in a collander, can't gerraht for air oils.

One of my dad's was "e's so tight, e'd nip a fart to save 't stink"

Mike

One of my Dad's favourite sayings was: Cum in lad and put wud in t'oil. He didn't swear very often but everything was 'Thunderin this and Thunderin that. He also said Chuffin' a lot.

"he's a little sparrowfart"

What's that mean exactly?


Coming to this SOMEWHAT late :rolleyes:, but in case no-one replied a 'sparrowfart' is a freckle. So your little sparrowfart will be a little freckly boy.

Tee hee!

- Kit.

In our house it was Clot Cold.

I've heard both 'clock cold' and 'clot cold', but for me the latter is the closest to the original expression: 'clod cold', as in as clod of earth. Mind you, I always say 'stone cold' anyway!

hiya i remember playing mabs in a water grate in the school yard, and some kids wanted to play with ball bearings but that was not played against the glass cats eye mabs, nor pot ones they were called stonks.

ps there were two grates just over the wall at the corner of cavendish street and broomspring lane at springfield school.


I remember those!!

I was at Springfield from '67 to '70, having been moved from the condemned houses on Landsowne Road, off Club Garden Road (when I went to Sharrow Lane School) to the Hanover Estate. I LOVED Springfield, our teacher was the very wonderful Mrs Bingham.

Coming to this SOMEWHAT late :rolleyes:, but in case no-one replied a 'sparrowfart' is a freckle. So your little sparrowfart will be a little freckly boy.

Tee hee!

- Kit.

thers also shut thi gob an purrer nail innit cheers

I've heard both 'clock cold' and 'clot cold', but for me the latter is the closest to the original expression: 'clod cold', as in as clod of earth. Mind you, I always say 'stone cold' anyway!

hiya, dont leh me puh thee off witway da torks buh gerrit allreight reight we would say clot cowd. arr owd ahda,sithee eer wen am torkin tuthi, gerrit den.
sorry about that as i'm in my 70s and going back how we said things keeps my grey cells working.

Anyone heard this saying:

Tha Bob owes my Bob a bob
and if tha Bob doesn't give my
Bob that bob which tha Bob owes
My Bob, my Bob will give tha Bob
a bob in eye.

Anyone heard this saying:

Tha Bob owes my Bob a bob
and if tha Bob doesn't give my
Bob that bob which tha Bob owes
My Bob, my Bob will give tha Bob
a bob in eye.

o reyt den seed dee at toppah eely borram oreyt

To Willybite
Ee lad. it's reight good to actually see it in print. Figurin'aht wot thaat sayin' is enuff to keep towd grey cells gooin. I luv Sheffieldese. Tha can't beat it.

arr well gorra get mi sweat towel art then get mi clogs on and cus armm on neets at rowling millint top shop at hadfeelds sor al siddee tumorrer avagudun cheers

To Willybite
Ee lad. it's reight good to actually see it in print. Figurin'aht wot thaat sayin' is enuff to keep towd grey cells gooin. I luv Sheffieldese. Tha can't beat it.

hiya janber thanks a many, av sed befooer its eesier seyin than rytin.here are one or two more
thas gorra big scope thy as,..you have a big head .
arrmuch moowers da want,..how much more do you want
lerrus no wen da wants summat ter eight.. let me know when you want something to eat,
lerrus no wendas gorr enuff... let me know when you have enough.
lerreus no wen thal be reddy wen we guart tuneet. let me know when you will be ready when we go out tonight.
albe reddy at ayf past semn... i'll be ready at half past seven.

am gunna geh wesht nah an al luk lyk a new scrapt carat.
go round tu the grammars an ask er tu lend us err tin bath

Hiya Willybite
One of me favourites is, itintintin. Tha reely shud ear sumbdy from Brum tryin' to read an say it reight. It's a laff a minit.An then thi sey Northerners r thick.

Im heard this on the bus today"not much cop" meaning not much good,it`s a long time since I heard that.

Mind your own business and eat your own biscuits :)

Does anyone remember Auntie Gladys's Cafe on Leopold Street?

Well, actually I think it was just called Gladys's – I and all my friends called it Auntie Glad's because Gladys Greensmith, who ran it, was my great aunt.

It served traditional English fare and was much beloved of local workers, who went there for lunch. It was there for donkey's years.

If you were walking from Barker's pool towards Trippet Lane it was on the right, close to where Orchard Street runs off. From memory – I left Sheffield 20 years ago!– there are only five or six little single-fronted shops there, either side of Exchange Something-or-Other (Gateway?? A little passage, anyway) and it was one of them. I wish I could remember which shop, but I can't now.

Be great to know if anyone else remembers it!

Does anyone remember Auntie Gladys's Cafe on Leopold Street?

Well, actually I think it was just called Gladys's – I and all my friends called it Auntie Glad's because Gladys Greensmith, who ran it, was my great aunt.

It served traditional English fare and was much beloved of local workers, who went there for lunch. It was there for donkey's years.

If you were walking from Barker's pool towards Trippet Lane it was on the right, close to where Orchard Street runs off. From memory – I left Sheffield 20 years ago!– there are only five or six little single-fronted shops there, either side of Exchange Something-or-Other (Gateway?? A little passage, anyway) and it was one of them. I wish I could remember which shop, but I can't now.


Be great to know if anyone else remembers it!


Will try to put a link on for you.

See if this works.
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Obviously not,but if you look on Picture Sheffield you will see a few photos of Leopold Street.

Thank you so much for that – I had a look at that and some of the other pics on the site as well, and the Sally's Pantry building is definitely the one.

I've no memory of it being called that, though. Either the name had changed by the time the photo was taken in the 1980s (the last time I visited my gt-auntie there with my dad would have been the very early 70s) – or my memory is playing tricks and it was just people who knew us that called it Auntie Glad's, because we knew it was run by Gladys Greensmith! I suspect it is my memory rather than a name change, and it's got lodged in my brain under that name simply because everyone I knew called it Auntie Glad's.

Thanks again for the picture link. :smile: Funny, I can't remember the cheap ciggies shop either, and I was still polluting the atmosphere in 1980!!! :gag:

Mind your own business and eat your own biscuits :)

OR.
Keep di noowers aht....

Why do we say,"I will wash up" or "I will tidy up"Is it just a local thing or is it widespread?

"Wesh pots up"

Alreet and rite are also used a lot in Sheffield.....

Why do we say,"I will wash up" or "I will tidy up"Is it just a local thing or is it widespread?

My mate has just come up with a possible explanation,could it have been from the servants in the big houses in years gone bye saying they were going to wash upstairs.

Why do we say,"I will wash up" or "I will tidy up"Is it just a local thing or is it widespread?It's widespread, one meaning of the word "up" being "fully" or "completely" - see this scan (http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/Up.jpg) from Chambers' dictionary..:)

It's widespread, one meaning of the word "up" being "fully" or "completely" - see this scan (http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/Up.jpg) from Chambers' dictionary..:)

hiya my wife still says, orlort shant,orlort show.when thas dun,weers me thingumijig. like shanksus pony, narden get thesen off dat avin meon.

Arr owd fella learvez his toowals alort shants.Then cant find wots under his nooaz.

hiya my wife still says, orlort shant,orlort show.when thas dun,weers me thingumijig. like shanksus pony, narden get thesen off dat avin meon.Supwidee?.;)

Supwidee?.;)

wotdar luckin at, dusta wanna foto
,wilta be tolld,
arr tolld de tu geh wesht thi nex like chimney back.
wats a marra,? its a long green thing.
wanafeight? semn.
al nock di block off if dadunt geeor sithi.
weers dat den? da nose thingamijig.

Otter gooin' ooam teneet else o' tha stoppin eer?
Astle put leet on an' githy sum fist.
Gerritetten afoor ah eyt it..:P

My brother in OZ has a book of Bible stories written in the Yorkshire dialect, it's one of the funniest thing I have ever read. It has Jonah, swallowed by the whale saying "eh up lad thars got a reetgob on thitubswallinmeole, and David and Goliath, "reetladtheenmeesgootohaveafeight,butthasnaychancew iyatyke,. I don't remember who the author is but would love to get a copy,my brother has sadly passed away now so I can't ask him, has any one else ever read it?

Hi orielanne - if you mean this book (http://www.flemingpress.co.uk/books/ybsmain.htm) it's apparently available for £5.35, payment via PayPal..:)

My Mum Charlotte Crapper used the saying "good guarding stuff" as we now use the saying "i dont believe it" has anyone else heard it?

My Mum Charlotte Crapper used the saying "good guarding stuff" as we now use the saying "i dont believe it" has anyone else heard it?

my ex- mother in law says "My good night, and garden green-stuff!"

(could be you misheard what she said?)

My brother in OZ has a book of Bible stories written in the Yorkshire dialect, it's one of the funniest thing I have ever read. It has Jonah, swallowed by the whale saying "eh up lad thars got a reetgob on thitubswallinmeole, and David and Goliath, "reetladtheenmeesgootohaveafeight,butthasnaychancew iyatyke,. I don't remember who the author is but would love to get a copy,my brother has sadly passed away now so I can't ask him, has any one else ever read it?

that sounds like David Hallam's book, "Yorkshire Bible Stories" Orielanne

David to Goliath:- "Thar's got mi reet mad, Nah!"

Sorry, Just gone to the linky, from the excellently informed Hillsboro' - and discovered I am "half" right, it's David Hallamshire!

Have your eyes ever been checked ?

No, doctor, they've always been blue.......:suspect:

hiya grinder, i remember walking through assembly shop when we were on nights at laycocks and seeing the setter having nodded off at the desk so i thought i'd have a bit of a lark with him so i rang his number, when he answered i just said " is diddlydumdum there" he said who, so i repeated it another three times, after fourth time i said he's not there then, so i put the phone down, a few days after he came through the shop and i said hiya alan is diddlydumdum in your shop, i let him know it was me he had to laugh though

Hi Willybite.
I remember one night it going cold on the shopfloor and when the Forman went into the boilerroom to see why, he found the Boilerman and a new guy fast asleep.
He woke him up and asked him "Wot dusda think dat doin", the boilerman said "Am showin im job"....:D

Happy days

growing up it was allus munt shunt waynt caant siddee avta and skoyle chipoyl guin up tarn taneet reyt siddee artside gormont ,and others to numerous to menshun,makes you wonder how we understood each other,well am oft to feyt mi way rarn meddowall,cheers

my mum didn't like to hear a woman whistle and when she did would say " A whistling woman and a crowing Hen whistles the Devil out of his den"

When my daughters were young , in the early eighties, they, and other kids, used to sing a little skipping/dancing type of song. It went something like --my mother sent me shopping to buy a loaf of bread, she wrapped it up in a five pound note and this is what she said ????????????????????.
That's the problem, I can't remember what is was she said.
I was trying to remember the song/ditty to sing to my grandaughter but cannot for the life of me remember how it ends. I have asked my daughters but they have no recollection of the song.
Does anyone out there remember/know it?????

It's widespread, one meaning of the word "up" being "fully" or "completely" - see this scan (http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/Up.jpg) from Chambers' dictionary..:)

yes, it's widely used in Canada too.

Stop talking such rubbish....

Dat talkin a load o tripe...

Shut di gob an gi de arse a chance....:o

My Mum used to come out with the following based on my first name:-

If tha Bob dunt gee our Bob
That bob he owes our Bob
Our Bob ill gee your Bob a bob in eye!

Mind your own business and eat your own biscuits :(

Who was "Nosey Parker" ?

Someone earlier reminded me from wot they said. If someone said wots she look like, my mother would reply ' er arse is as wide as wicker arches '.

Finger, Thumb, and a rusty bum.........:roll:

and.....if I hadn't washed behind my ears & neck properly, my mother would say ' get in kichen an av nuther wosh, can see tates growin bind yer ers ':hihi::hihi:

I have enjoyed reading this thread, my nan used to say to me
if thy dont behave i will hang your guts for garters i dont no if this is a sheffield thing tho but a lot that i have read she said to me

Someone earlier reminded me from wot they said. If someone said wots she look like, my mother would reply ' er arse is as wide as wicker arches '.

if someone was clever (in both senses, of being "lary" or just plain bright) they'd be described as being "As wide as the Wicker Arches!"

(wide as used in the sense of "wise")

Finger, Thumb, and a rusty bum.........:roll:

Great game this,not for wimps, you'll find how its played under one of its other names, Jimmy Knacker.

Ok folks.Heres one.This tea time we had a salad with crusty bread,got the lurpak out of the fridge,proceeded to try and butter the bread but it was tearing the bread.The husband goes,you need to MONJ it up in the tub with a knife so it melts faster? Monj??? Anyone else heard of monjin butter before? :confused:

Ok folks.Heres one.This tea time we had a salad with crusty bread,got the lurpak out of the fridge,proceeded to try and butter the bread but it was tearing the bread.The husband goes,you need to MONJ it up in the tub with a knife so it melts faster? Monj??? Anyone else heard of monjin butter before? :confused:

OwlsChick - The word we used was 'Modge', we would modge more than one item together if needed!

...The husband goes,you need to MONJ it up in the tub with a knife so it melts faster? Monj??? Anyone else heard of monjin butter before? :confused:I hadn't heard this one, but sure enough it's in the O.E.D. - "mong" (evidently pronounced "monj") is an old dialect word meaning to mix or knead - here's a scan (http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/Mong.jpg)..:)

does any one remember skipping to the saying blue bells, cockle shells, evory ivory over , good skipper ,what you like, jelly or peppper ,hop or a skip or a lady or a ----- , andy pandy , lord nelson, blue bell ,cracker :loopy::huh::

jelly was jelly on a plate (repeat)
wiggle waggle wiggle waggle
jelly on a plate


lady was: lady lady turn around ,
lady lady touch the ground
lady lady turn around
lady lady read a book
lady lady take your hook
-------
does anyone remember the others

"Where y'gooin mam"?
"T' Chippadag"
never knew what it meant...:huh:

Any one remember the skipping one the girls used to sing that went some thing like,

When ( Susie ?) was a school girl a school girl ---- was,
and she'd say Miss, Miss, I can't do this ?..

I hadn't heard this one, but sure enough it's in the O.E.D. - "mong" (evidently pronounced "monj") is an old dialect word meaning to mix or knead - here's a scan (http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/Mong.jpg)..:)
Wonder if this could also have come from the medieval dish Blanc mangen (blamange) ?

Any one remember the skipping one the girls used to sing that went some thing like,

When ( Susie ?) was a school girl a school girl ---- was,
and she'd say Miss, Miss, I can't do this ?..

When susie was a baby, a baby Susie was, and she went Goo-goo, a ga-ga-ga.
When susie was a school girl, a schoolgirl Susie was, and she went "Miss, Miss, I can't do this!"
When Susie was a teenager, a teenager Susie was, and she went "Ooh! aah! I've lost my bra, I left my Knickers in me boy friends car!"

They are the only lines I can remember! (I remember "Susie was a mother", and I think there was a line which went "Susie was a teacher". but I can't be sure.)

A nice little rhyme this,
'Little Miss Netty Coat,
'In a white pettycoat;
The longer she stands
And the shorter she grows.
It is a candle. :D:

Who's that man in the pork pie hat,
Roo, Roo, Kan-ga-roo..:banana:

( Don't ask :blush: )

Hi Grinder,

I have found a few good words to put a smile on peoples face. First I must say these are real words not made up. These are words used by Sheffield people, some forgotten, some not. No offence is intended, so be warned.

Belly Timber-Any kind of food.
Belly Wark-Belly Ache.

Wait for it, :hihi:

****-A-Bed-A large yellow Dandilion
A Bessy-A Female Idiot :roll:

I remember this one as a kid, someone in our house used to say, 'She looks a right Bessy'. It took me many years before I knew what it meant.
Wait they get better!!!

Blow-Me-Tight-To take an Oath. :heyhey:
Bonk-To be made bankrupt. This was a term used by School boys in a game of marbles. When a boy won all the marbles he would cry out, 'I Bonked him'! :nono:
A-Bun-Hole-In a game of Marbles. A hole is made with the heel of a shoe in the ground. The idea is who can roll a Marble nearest the hole.
:wow: :wow:

Not heard Bun hole before but remember "Cake oil " as in "Shut de ", or close your mouth...

****-A-Bed-A large yellow Dandilion

I knew Dandelions as "pee'-t' bed"s.

The two refrances to playing marbles I have not heard before, & I was a marble champion!! I don't remember what words I used in playing but I remember digging a bole with my heel. I also remember how I won other kids marbles, I would drop my one marble from above scattering other boys marbles & winning them all. To the dismay of of the other boys. Rules of the game.

I know we used to call some "MABBS" glassys but what were they made of ?
They used to take some reight hammer but I cant remember any of them chipping

About thirty five years ago I was involved as a leader taking a group of teenagers on a trip to London. Shortly after arriving, my wife and I were taking a coffee break in an Italian cafe when one of 'our' youngsters came in and said to the man behind the counter -Eyup mate, asta gerren any sarnies.
I can still see the look on that guy's face now!

Grinder, They were actually made of glass, they could chip, but I never knew them to break apart. I used to have some favourites & lucky ones. I used to like the green ones, thought the swurl of colour looked like an eye. I have a few large marbles still, cant part with them. :)

Sheffich, I know what you mean. I was going to a pin machine on the South Coast, when this man turned to me & told me it was not working. His accent was so strong I asked him where he was from, he said Rotherham. He was on holiday. Small world. :hihi:

Grinder, They were actually made of glass, they could chip, but I never knew them to break apart. I used to have some favourites & lucky ones. I used to like the green ones, thought the swurl of colour looked like an eye. I have a few large marbles still, cant part with them. :)

GL.
I was the same with my Cigarette cards, unfortunately I gave them all away when I got married thought they were a bit too childish to take with me.:loopy:
Miss em now though and the albums would probably be worth a bob or two as well .:rant: