Impecunious Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 Shut tha kite oil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soft ayperth Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 What's Cocksparrer got to do with Sheff? It's east end of Laahndan see sig below Probably not confined to Sheffield, but I do like the expression all the same. The same expression, substituting fauna that are indigenous to the locale, are used all over the place. When I lived in Newfoundland, people used to say "me old trout." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soft ayperth Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 when i was lttle my gran used to say 'keep away from't corsey edge' which i think she meant edge of pavement never heard of it !anybody else? Yes. Commonly used when I was growing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misty3 Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 Shut tha kite oil Cake oil? as in hole to put cake in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impecunious Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 Cake oil? as in hole to put cake in? I've heard both to be honest!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphy Jnr Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 (edited) Murph Is something 'burned' or 'burnt' as i've seen the latter on some vans, as in 'Burnt tree'.. I sometimes type 'laffing' instead of 'laughing' as well Biggsy It seems that 'earned' is more correct. 'earnt' doesn't appear in many dictionaries. Edited January 2, 2012 by Murphy Jnr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snesman64 Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 Funny... I'm an American expat and we were discussing Sheffield slang at work just the other day.... one of the ladies offered "Kale-eyed" as an example of Sheffield slang... or maybe it was Barnsley slang. Anyway, strange coincidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastResort Posted January 5, 2012 Author Share Posted January 5, 2012 I loved these replies - I learned a few things and a lot of the stuff posted brought back happy memories after living away from Sheffield for more than 30 years. I can definitely say that I've never, ever heard the word "bobbar" used anywhere but Sheffield. That one's an absolute classic! Blokes calling other blokes "luv" also made me laugh, because it reminded me of a day when a bloke I know from Sheff came down to London visit me. We'd just got in the lift in a particularly rough tower block in a particularly rough part of London and as my Sheff mate politely held the lift door open for a particularly rough-looking big Cockney bloke hovering in the lobby, he politely asked "Does tha want to gerrin 'ere wi' me luv"?..... and if I hadn't stepped in pretty quickly with pacifying explanations, the pair of us would have been badly beaten up! Samshe's post on the "breadcake" scenario also amused me no end, because I had a similar experience, but in reverse, when I first moved to London in 1979. In a sandwich shop, what I asked for was " a chicken and salad breadcake" - what I actually got was a chicken salad sandwich on sliced brown bread...... and a piece of cake! Similarily with "teacakes". To me, these are basically just breadcakes with a few currants chucked in them - yet when I asked one of my London mates to get me some teacakes when she went to the supermarket, she came back with a box of those McVities chocolate-covered marshmallow thingies? I still haven't quite worked that one out...... On a final note, even after almost 33 years of living away from Sheff, people still laugh at me when I refer to the draining board next to the kitchen sink as the "pot-side". I've never heard a draining board called a pot-side outside of my lovely home town either! Well - that's what my mum always calls it..... and that's good enough for me! Cheers everybody - and HAPPY NEW YEAR to all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gularscute Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Would this man have had a successful career if he came from Sheffield? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Barr And will this place ever open a branch here? http://www.bobbarnyc.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kthebean Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Things I'd never heard til I came to sheffield nesh mardy mash as in making tea, when I got my first temp job here someone asked me 'tha mashin then lass' oh I walked off not knowing what to do! saying 'bits and bats' instead of 'bits and bobs' 9 while 5 instead of 9 til 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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