Another thing folk don't seem to do now is "Gallivant". Now when I was a kid mi Mam said, instead of doing what I should be doing I was always Gallivanting off some where else....
Used to be a reight good gallivanter me...
Years ago my teenage cousins went gallavanting when they went out on the pull.
We used to gallivant when we were doing something that was more fun than what we should have been doing.
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there was looks like back of a tram then they took trams off so it got up dated also like sh#t of a shovel never struck me as being very fast unless you had the runsbut then sounds manky to me ill go to foot of ar stairs tally man cheers lol.
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It's great reading through this thread. I find myself "reading " it in my moms or my dads voices and I haven't heard them for 30 years now.
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I think a lot of contibutors to this thread relate in the same way. I for one think of my parents, neighbours etc speaking a dialect that is now etched in my mind. Sometimes we 'put it on', but they were the genuine characters.
I've not lived in Sheffield for 34 years but everytime I go "home" I quickly drop into the accent/dialect. My kids used to think I put it on until they realised that it always took me several days to lose it when we come home. Sheffield phrases are always slipping into my conversations.
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I've not lived in Sheffield for 34 years but everytime I go "home" I quickly drop into the accent/dialect. My kids used to think I put it on until they realised that it always took me several days to lose it when we come home. Sheffield phrases are always slipping into my conversations.
I know the feeling, I lived in Germany for 24 years. I came back in September
last year and it took a while to get back into the 'language of the locals'. Still don't know what I'm saying sometimes.
When did we become the Irish/Yorkshire ?
We are called DE-DARS, by people from Barnsley and yet the hard "A" is Barnsley not Sheffield...
As a child I was always pulled up for THEEING and THOUING, don't remember ever deeing or daring....
Dip,dip,dip my blue ship,sailing on the water like a cup and saucer......
We called these 'choosing' songs dipping
Bassmanjack you have got me sniffing now had completely forgotten that one and suddenly I'm back in the yard at playtime aged 8 with my schoolfriends. ....sniffs, wipes eyes and smiles recalling happy days playing Kiss catch
do you also remember the game counting buttons on your cardi "Lady,baby , gypsy, Queen, elephant,tiger,tangerine ?
When did we become the Irish/Yorkshire ?
We are called DE-DARS, by people from Barnsley and yet the hard "A" is Barnsley not Sheffield...
As a child I was always pulled up for THEEING and THOUING, don't remember ever deeing or daring....
True, I used to have to moderate pronunciation a tad when indoors at home and school (Manor Estate in the 50s) but when playing with pals outside it was always dee, daa and naaden.
Bassmanjack you have got me sniffing now had completely forgotten that one and suddenly I'm back in the yard at playtime aged 8 with my schoolfriends. ....sniffs, wipes eyes and smiles recalling happy days playing Kiss catch
do you also remember the game counting buttons on your cardi "Lady,baby , gypsy, Queen, elephant,tiger,tangerine ?
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Anyone remember adding up the numbers on their bus tickets....keep adding until 1 number then saying.
1 for sorrow
2 for joy.
3 for a letter
4 for a boy.
5 for silver
6 for gold
7 for a secret never to be told.
there must have been and 8 and 9 but for the life of me I can't remember them. anyone
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Anyone remember adding up the numbers on their bus tickets....keep adding until 1 number then saying.
1 for sorrow
2 for joy.
3 for a letter
4 for a boy.
5 for silver
6 for gold
7 for a secret never to be told.
there must have been and 8 and 9 but for the life of me I can't remember them. anyone
That's the old magpie rhyme
8's a wish
9's a kiss
We used to count them and if it added upto a number 7 or with 7 in it it was a lucky ticket and you kept it, for a while any way.
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That's the old magpie rhyme
8's a wish
9's a kiss
We used to count them and if it added upto a number 7 or with 7 in it it was a lucky ticket and you kept it, for a while any way.
Yes thats it....add it up , divide it by 7 and it was the remainder that you did the ryhme for, so that would explain why it only went up to 7 wouldn't it..... and if it was exact, then yes, it was a lucky one...Thank you
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Anyone remember adding up the numbers on their bus tickets....keep adding until 1 number then saying.
1 for sorrow
2 for joy.
3 for a letter
4 for a boy.
5 for silver
6 for gold
7 for a secret never to be told.
there must have been and 8 and 9 but for the life of me I can't remember them. anyone
there were two versions, only what the numbers meant for one-to-four differed:-
One for Sorrow,
Two for Joy
Three for a Girl,
Four for a Boy
Five for Silver,
Six for Gold,
Seven is a Secret,
Never to be told
Eight's a wish,
Nine's a Kiss,
Ten is a bird you must not miss.
the other version went
"One for Sorrow
Two for Mirth
Three for a Wedding,
Four for a Birth... etc"
Joanl, the four for a letter rhyme was something to do with sneezes, IIRC:-
Sneeze on Monday, sneeze for danger,
Sneeze on Tuesday, kiss a stranger,
Sneeze on Wednesday, sneeze for a letter,
Sneeze on Thursday, something better,
Sneeze on Friday, sneeze for sorrow,
Sneeze on Saturday, see your sweetheart tomorrow.
When my daughter was at school I remember there was a skipping/ clapping song she and her friends sang..
When Susie was a baby a baby Susie was and she'd go. (Baby noise ?)
When Susie was a school girl a school girl Susie was, and she'd say, Miss Miss I can't do this.
and so on any one remember this one
We used to say a rhyme walking home "tread on a square, you'll marry a bear, tread on a line ,you'll marry a swine.. I must have been good at it because my OH is neither !
had completely forgotten that one and suddenly I'm back in the yard at playtime aged 8 with my schoolfriends. ....sniffs, wipes eyes and smiles recalling happy days playing Kiss catch 
anyone
and if it was exact, then yes, it was a lucky one...Thank you 
