What's a dee-dar ?

[jossyboy]

dar lot best check desens befuwer de recks desens,

 

some parts of sheffield still talk like this, well they do in handsworth anyway

[julado]

Is it owt like gay-dar? In which case I have to ask.....what's a dee?

[hillsbro]

But what about dee doh (thee though)? And if you can't remember someone's name (therefore call them thingy = fingy) and you want to know their opinion, it goes like this:

 

Ah abaht dee doh den, fingy?.

 

But my favourite is still a single word - supwidee.?.

[Luke108460]

Are thar arate ar kid gooin daarn t chip ole

a dar dorate me kid what tha doin dee dar

[XgirlieX]

they call sheffielders dee dars, same as we call barnsley people dingles, its just nicknames like mancs an scousers

[princessldf]

Barnsley'ers are dingles lol

[bladesgal4ev]

But what about dee doh (thee though)? And if you can't remember someone's name (therefore call them thingy = fingy) and you want to know their opinion, it goes like this:

 

Ah abaht dee doh den, fingy?.

 

But my favourite is still a single word - supwidee.?.

 

i can't pronounce th so i say it as a f i fink thats just beacuse i am fick tho not cus i'm from sheffield

[dialectmad]

It is actually dee dah.

Until fairly recently Sheffielders used a 'd' instead of 'th'.

Instead of saying 'Thee' and 'Thah', they would say 'Dee' and 'Dah'

Sheffield dominated batallions in WW One were nicknamed 'Dee dahs' by other units and it stuck after the war was over.

I believe that the local usage died out during the 1950s, but obviously the news hasn't reached Barnsley yet.

[dialectmad]

about the last entry, I do not know what I was thinking of.

It should, of course, be 'Dee da' from 'Thee, tha'.

[lady_angel]

Dee dar is a dumb copper a bright one is a nee nar

gawd dont ya know kiddie winkie language lol:hihi: