Old Sheffield dialect

[catmiss 12]

every Friday pay day my dad used to bring me some “spice “ -sweets not the substance! On Saturday part of my mum’s shop was to buy each of us a “mug” -a chocolate bar to accompany the evening tv watching . A work colleague overheard “who were she wi wah she wi her sen or wi I’m?” and thought this true Yorkshire 😯

[FIRETHORN1 58]

When I visited my 80-odd year old mum a couple of weeks ago, she accused me of "liberty-lobbin"  down her stairs. I had a very dodgy knee at the time, so instead of walking down the stairs one foot a time, I was stepping down a stair-step with my right foot, then bringing my left foot down onto the same step and so on, all the way down.

I asked my mum what the phrase "liberty-lobbin"  meant and where it came from, but she didn't know - she just remembered the same thing being said to her when she was a kid. Has anyone else heard this one before? 

[kidley 48]

has any body mentioned "ecky thump" yet

[Longcol 598]

24 minutes ago, kidley said:

has any body mentioned "ecky thump" yet

More Lancastrian and West Yorkshire than Sheffield IMHO.

[jaffa1 10]

My mother was always telling us to stop mimi morking

Pulling faces  behind peoples back.

[sedith 19]

My mother used to refer to tough meat as 'toff'

I met somebody else who used this term

[zaci 12]

What tha rooerin for!!

[sedith 19]

I'm not?

[sedith 19]

On 25/10/2019 at 05:51, Ontarian1981 said:

I had a 22 stone uncle who used to love filling out forms.

- Calling the evening meal "tea" instead of "dinner"

 

Originally from Sheffield ... these days I live in the west country and lunch is between 12 noon and 2pm, tea is around 4pm and dinner is around 6pm to 9pm!

Nobody is right and nobody is wrong!!

 

[zaci 12]

Gerritetten

[Ontarian1981 10]

1 hour ago, sedith said:

My mother used to refer to tough meat as 'toff'

I met somebody else who used this term

My relatives from Ilkeston always called toffee 'tuffee'

[Ontarian1981 10]

50 minutes ago, sedith said:

- Calling the evening meal "tea" instead of "dinner"

 

Originally from Sheffield ... these days I live in the west country and lunch is between 12 noon and 2pm, tea is around 4pm and dinner is around 6pm to 9pm!

Nobody is right and nobody is wrong!!

 

When I was schooling,I had my breakfast at summat to eight.