Have you heard of these sayings ?

[beezerboy 12]

One of my Mums pieces of wisdom was " It's only the hairs on a gooseberry ,that stops it from being a grape".

[lexi's-nan 10]

Yikes! Yes its definately a 'lump' we always called it that.....just tekkin dog 'round t'lump for a walk......he he he he memories.......

[grannypat 11]

Eeeeeh! It's reight grand to 'ear all this 'ear Sheffield talk. I 'ampt eard it for years. Ast any 'o thee ever 'eard o' "Knocked thee duck off"? It meant to feel down or depressed. You can imagine the looks I got when I said it down here in Dorset. I used to live off the bottom of The Moor and when the term round the lump was used, it meant the houses. These were built to form a rectangle which made up 6 yards. If you walked all the way around the rectangle of houses you had walked round the lump.

They don't talk proper darn 'ere. I get reight 'omesick for a yorkshire voice at times.

 

Grannypat

[soft ayperth 11]

towdlad was a common saying when I was growing up meaning "the old lad" or any male, usually a senior member of a household.

 

But, my granddad used to call my grandma towd 'en ("the old hen"), affectionately meant of course.

 

Anyone else come across this term?

[teddie 10]

towdlad was a common saying when I was growing up meaning "the old lad" or any male, usually a senior member of a household.

 

But, my granddad used to call my grandma towd 'en ("the old hen"), affectionately meant of course.

 

Anyone else come across this term?

 

 

Oh yes!! we always said it is was an affectionate term. t'owd lad oop road sort of thing.

[DUFFEMS 56]

In all the years I knew my grandfather I can't recall him calling my grandmother by her first name (Lily).

It's not that they didn't get on at all and, he had great respect for her, it's just down to the generation they grew up in,

Is it a Sheffield thing, I doubt it.

[Snowbird 10]

Eeeeeh! It's reight grand to 'ear all this 'ear Sheffield talk. I 'ampt eard it for years. Ast any 'o thee ever 'eard o' "Knocked thee duck off"? It meant to feel down or depressed. You can imagine the looks I got when I said it down here in Dorset. I used to live off the bottom of The Moor and when the term round the lump was used, it meant the houses. These were built to form a rectangle which made up 6 yards. If you walked all the way around the rectangle of houses you had walked round the lump.

They don't talk proper darn 'ere. I get reight 'omesick for a yorkshire voice at times.

 

Tha doesn't get much yorkshire ere eether these days lass! Folk are freetened to talk reight Sheffild - rekon as how its common! Champion I call it--twere gud enuff fer my granda , so shud be gud enuff for t'other folk.

[Joanl 12]

In all the years I knew my grandfather I can't recall him calling my grandmother by her first name (Lily).

It's not that they didn't get on at all and, he had great respect for her, it's just down to the generation they grew up in,

Is it a Sheffield thing, I doubt it.

 

Do ya know, now you come to mention it, I can't remember my dad calling my mother by her name either. I hadn't though about that before and they've been dead over 30 years now. If he was looking at her when he spoke he was talking to her or would just call her luv. If he was talking to me or my brother he would say our names.....

Well blow me.....

[sheffruss 10]

My dad used to call my mum 'wife' most of the time, which she just about tolerated.

[Jim Hardie 527]

My dad used to call my mum 'wife' most of the time, which she just about tolerated.

 

Was he Amish?

[DUFFEMS 56]

Do ya know, now you come to mention it, I can't remember my dad calling my mother by her name either. I hadn't though about that before and they've been dead over 30 years now. If he was looking at her when he spoke he was talking to her or would just call her luv. If he was talking to me or my brother he would say our names.....

Well blow me.....

 

I think it was just their generation, they couldn't be sentimental or show feelings, calling their spouse by their first name seemed "sloppy" somehow.

If I was with my grandparents my grandfather would say to me, "Tell thi grandmum........"

It was a bit like when a couple have a row and they speak to each other through the kids!

I'm sure it wasn't just Sheffield people that were like it, more likely to be a generation thing.

[sheffruss 10]

Was he Amish?

 

no, Lewis...