bazjea   10 #157 Posted March 25, 2016 (edited) coy-ill in sheffield commonly called coal els where  What about coy-ill oil? any ideas Edited March 25, 2016 by bazjea Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
kidley   48 #158 Posted March 25, 2016 hope this is local - coo-ert -maybe pronounced in posher districts as coat. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Eater Sundae   12 #159 Posted March 25, 2016 Once, as a teenager, probably in the late 60s, I went with my late dad (born in the mid 20s) to his local (working men's) club. He was treasurer of their fishing club and had gone to meet some others to check and agree some monies. One was reading out a list of numbers as the other checked it off. When they case to the figure "0", they would say "ought", I presume that was how it was spelled, to rhyme with nought, and meaning the same. I've never heard the word before or since, but it was certainly the normal word for my dad and his mates. Is this a local word?  The common ones I remember as a kid were spice, breadcake and while, plus quite a few of the others.  I'm now in my 60s. I don't particularly think of myself as having much of a local accent. At least I didn't until my daughter (who is 11) started picking me up on it. She really notices when I miss the ends off words, and corrects me. (So I find myself doing it even more just to wind her up). We live in what most people regard as a "posh" area of Sheffield and I've now got to meet many of the parents of her schoolfriends. Many of these are out of towners who stayed on after doing their degree here. I don't think I'm a big user of local dialects, but my accent certainly stands out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
REUBEN 123   10 #160 Posted March 25, 2016 What about coy-ill oil? any ideas  That was where we kept the"coyl". You either had a coyl ouse or a coyl bunker depending how posh you were. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
LLAN   10 #161 Posted March 25, 2016 What about coy-ill oil? any ideas  We called it coyal oyal: coal hole: Our coal house was outside and if it was Silin dahn me dad made me fetch coyal in.  ---------- Post added 25-03-2016 at 23:47 ----------  guz under = chamber pot if you were posh,or p--s pot if you were dead common My Grandad lived Ont cliff and he carried the Geremiah down their stairs without spilling a drop. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
stpetre   12 #162 Posted March 25, 2016 (edited) maybe it's time you moved then:P  There has to be a Sheffield expression for that line !  ---------- Post added 26-03-2016 at 00:18 ----------  In West Yorkshire they refer to 'lakin' about i.e. playing about (particularly relates to kids out playing). Is this something also used in Sheffield?  In the '60s my job sometimes took me to a factory in Chapletown and sitting in the canteen one Monday morning, two blokes from that area sat nearby were discussing the football game they had been to in Sheffield at the weekend. 'Arr he's a reight laker that winger o' theirs' 'Mecks other lakers look daft'. Took me quite a while to work most of that out. They were talking about George Best incidentally.  ---------- Post added 26-03-2016 at 00:27 ----------  In the week of the passing of Barry Hines (R.I.P.) a lot of these sayings have been mentioned in his obituaries, although he was from Hoyland Common, the expressions have permeated through !  ---------- Post added 26-03-2016 at 00:39 ----------  I once called a workmate on the phone one evening and his mother on answering informed me that 'He was in Jerusalem right now' and having been with him a few hours earlier knew that it couldn't be the place in Israel and no pubs named that where he lived -which was 'ont' Wybourn- he was taking a nap but that was a new saying to me. Edited March 26, 2016 by stpetre spell Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
mickdalewood   10 #163 Posted March 26, 2016 When I was at school the teacher put some words up on the board for us to put in a sentence and one was coil and one lad wrote,  Today the coil man delivered some coil Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
cgksheff   44 #164 Posted March 26, 2016 .......... I once called a workmate on the phone one evening and his mother on answering informed me that 'He was in Jerusalem right now' and having been with him a few hours earlier knew that it couldn't be the place in Israel and no pubs named that where he lived -which was 'ont' Wybourn- he was taking a nap but that was a new saying to me.  Never heard that before. Just a guess ...  "Last night I lay a sleeping. There came a dream so fair. I stood in old Jerusalem, beside the temple there ...... ......." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
princeowales   10 #165 Posted March 26, 2016 In Sheffield you park the car in the garidge...elsewhere it goes in the garage.  We go for dinner and eat pork but my wife simply could not understand why my nephews were ordering puherk chops. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
kidley   48 #166 Posted March 26, 2016 In Sheffield you park the car in the garidge...elsewhere it goes in the garage. We go for dinner and eat pork but my wife simply could not understand why my nephews were ordering puherk chops.  pey's instead of peas as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
mossdog   10 #167 Posted March 26, 2016 ......'arin' abaaat........haring about (running about). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
TORONTONY Â Â 10 #168 Posted March 26, 2016 "worrit"= was it. Or wasn't it. Â Was it is reight, wasn't it is werntit Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...