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During my first week in Sheffield, after I bought a paper in a newsagents, the bloke behind the counter said "Cheers love". A bloke calling me love, that threw me a bit.

 

Yeah quite common to be called love, duck. :D

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hehe, getting called duck also confused me. First time I was called duck, I thought she was insinuating that I looked like a duck. So I waddled off in a huff.

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hehe, getting called duck in also confused me. First time I was called duck, I thought she was insinuating that I looked like a duck. So I waddled off in a huff.

 

Haha, we do address people in odd ways, mi owd.

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Haha, we do address people in odd ways, mi owd.

 

**** sparra??

 

 

Biggsy :)

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Kale eyed (as someone spelt it) actually comes from the Gaelic CEILIDH which is like a celebration gathering, sometimes in a public house, with music and dancing.

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Well, kale is a type of cabbage as far as I know :hihi:

 

Thats where the name Kale-eyed comes from.

Scrubbers used to make booze out of it and apparently it would send them blind.

A bit like too much porn did for me :(

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Yeah quite common to be called love, duck. :D

 

****?

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Bobbar and essant.

 

Th only person I've heard say bobbar since I was a kid is my partner, and I was surprised the first time I heard him say it, as he had just returned from living dahn sarf for 10 years.

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proper and right before a verb as in

 

I'm proper tired or I'm right hungry

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proper and right before a verb as in

 

I'm proper tired or I'm right hungry

 

I knew proper was a Sheffield or at least Yorkshire thing, but I never realised about right until recently.

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Th only person I've heard say bobbar since I was a kid is my partner, and I was surprised the first time I heard him say it, as he had just returned from living dahn sarf for 10 years.

 

Im not suprised. Its bobbar down south.

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proper and right before a verb as in

 

I'm proper tired or I'm right hungry

 

jeez i hate the use of those, and the now popular n'lot at the end of every chav sentence.

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