Old Sheffield dialect

[TORONTONY 10]

"Bonny" as in "She's a bonny lass" meaning a larger lady.[/QUOT

In the northeast it meant good looking lol

[tattoo 10]

I love 'yitten', my dad always says it to us.

 

Yitten meant scared

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

Spice = 'sweets'.

[retep 68]

Imagine Britain's very own Enigma code..."sheffieldish", could never have been broken LOL

 

Me and a mate were at an antique fair chatting at a stall and the fella at the stall asked what country we were from, he was from London.

[old tup 30]

Me and a mate were at an antique fair chatting at a stall and the fella at the stall asked what country we were from, he was from London.

I,m not surprised I can,t understand thee aif at time!.:huh:

[jaffa1 10]

If tha does owt for nowt ollus do it for thisen

 

Put cleean knickers on tha might get knocked down

 

Hicky with his eye out/ cut.

 

Lairy packet

[retep 68]

I,m not surprised I can,t understand thee aif at time!.:huh:

 

I'll have you know I had elocution lessons from Whitey.

[chillirobbo 10]

I hate doing it, but as I live in Dubai I have to tone my dialect down a tad.

 

This still doesn't stop people asking where I'm from though. When I've said the UK they immediately think London. I'm apparently also from the US, Australia, South Africa and Germany.....

 

I work with a lot of Indians who think I sound like Geoffrey Boycott. I'm female

 

Could be worse. One of my mates here who's a Brummy was on the phone to someone and got asked if he was Chinese

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

I work with a lot of Indians who think I sound like Geoffrey Boycott.

Easy solution: emulate him and run out.

[natonstan 10]

I hate doing it, but as I live in Dubai I have to tone my dialect down a tad.

 

This still doesn't stop people asking where I'm from though. When I've said the UK they immediately think London. I'm apparently also from the US, Australia, South Africa and Germany.....

 

I work with a lot of Indians who think I sound like Geoffrey Boycott. I'm female

 

Could be worse. One of my mates here who's a Brummy was on the phone to someone and got asked if he was Chinese

 

Living here in Texas, nobody has a clue what Sheffield is, so I'm forced to simply say England and 9/10 that brings up a conversation on The Queen.

[TORONTONY 10]

Living here in Texas, nobody has a clue what Sheffield is, so I'm forced to simply say England and 9/10 that brings up a conversation on The Queen.

 

After35 years in Canada, people ask me if I am Australian, South African, Scottish, Welsh, Irish anything but English. Once, however while phoning the Tax office about a form, the young Canadian at the other end, asked me which part of Sheffield I came from, I almost fell over:o. Apparently his parents were from Grenoside when they emigrated to Canada with him and his brother, who were both little, and his dad talked exactly like me lol.

[glennpickard 10]

Similar happenings to me. I always say Sheffield when asked where I am from, then if not known, I explain where it is and what it does and has done. I usually tell the story about the Cruiser Sheffield in WW2, and the role it played in tracking & sinking the Bismark !

Yes about the only country the inquirer does not connect me too is England !