Here's your chance!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8338077.stm

Anything will do, from the Sheddi dialect to something you've just made 
up but which you can say was common when you were a child.

z.b.  "Ogeepogurt", which I heard a few times in the early 1960s in 
northern Cheshire; it meant dog gheqf.

-- 
< Paul >

On 3 Nov, 21:44, "Paul C. Dickie"  wrote:
> Here's your chance!
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8338077.stm
>
> Anything will do, from the Sheddi dialect to something you've just made
> up but which you can say was common when you were a child.

No need to make it up.  I just posted:
------------------------------------------------------
South Lincolnshire, 20th century

"Twethins" - the small earthenware slips used to pack ridge tiles on
pantile roofs.

"Shoeen" - old plural for shoes, current up until the 1970s.  There
were other -en plurals, and eggs were "eeen", similar to the german Ei
for egg.

"Todins" - stones wedged around the bast of e.g. a gatepost.  Also a
wooden wedge for a door.

"Tarrit" - a bit of domestic land.  A garden, an allotment, a corner
of a field used for household animals, or casual planting.  Sometimes
associated with customary use of, rather than ownership of or formal
rights over, a bit of land.

"Splatcher" - a bit of wood put down to allow walking on mud.  In
Yachting parlance it would be a sort of snow-shoe atached to the foot,
but in farming it's a sort of plank used as a stepping-stone in really
bad weather.

"Nard" - a penetrating cold, as of windy days over snow or frost.
'it's come over truly nard since we come out', said around the pub
fire.  'She were a grand old dog, but could not be doing when the nard
came', of a poacher's terrier.

"Flatch" - a twitch of straw used to clean up.  Any sort of impromptu
cleaning utensil.

"Tal-lat" - the noise a door knocker makes. "who is that making a tal-
lat on my front door at this time of night?"

"pog" - muddy. Clagged up.  "My boots were all a-pog when I got
home".  "Pog-stick" - a bit of scrap wood used for scraping boots.

The message

from bobharvey  contains these words:

> "Flatch" - a twitch of straw used to clean up.  Any sort of impromptu
> cleaning utensil.

Like a clethering stick.

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Not to be sniffed at.

On 3 Nov, 22:21, Skipweasel  wrote:

> Like a clethering stick.

clettering , shirley?

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:21:34 GMT, Skipweasel
 wrote:

>The message
>
>from bobharvey  contains these words:
>
>> "Flatch" - a twitch of straw used to clean up.  Any sort of impromptu
>> cleaning utensil.
>
>Like a clethering stick.

Clettering, shirley.

And sukebind. 
-- 
Tim

bobharvey said:
> On 3 Nov, 21:44, "Paul C. Dickie"  wrote:
>> Here's your chance!
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8338077.stm
>>
>> Anything will do, from the Sheddi dialect to something you've just made
>> up but which you can say was common when you were a child.
>
> No need to make it up.  I just posted:
> ------------------------------------------------------
> South Lincolnshire, 20th century
>
> "Twethins" - the small earthenware slips used to pack ridge tiles on
> pantile roofs.

Oh dear.

You Know You've Been Reading Shedspeak Too Long When :-

"pantile" suddenly starts looking like an adjective.

-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

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On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:38:33 -0800 (PST), bobharvey
 wrote:

>On 3 Nov, 22:21, Skipweasel  wrote:
>
>> Like a clethering stick.
>
>clettering , shirley?

Arrgh! Gibbons Rays!

-- 
Tim

In uk.rec.sheds,  (bobharvey) wrote in
::

>"pog" - muddy. Clagged up.  "My boots were all a-pog when I got
>home".  "Pog-stick" - a bit of scrap wood used for scraping boots.

In Lancs, "pog" is a verb meaning to ruin or spoil: "Ah, you've pogged
that!" Also used in the sense of "I'm pogged" when you're full to
bursting.  I'm told it's used somewhat on the cobbled side of the M62
TAAW.
-- 
Marc

Structure is not always stricture (Vicki Rosenzweig)

On 4 Nov, 01:49, Znep  wrote:

> In Lancs, "pog" is a verb meaning to ruin or spoil: "Ah, you've pogged
> that!" Also used in the sense of "I'm pogged" when you're full to
> bursting.  I'm told it's used somewhat on the cobbled side of the M62
> TAAW.

In Baker Perkins we talked about MIFs - Maintenance Induced Faults.
It became a verb: "I really miffed that up", "The main DC drive was
miffed by the customer".

Richard Robinson  wrote:

> Oh dear.
> 
> You Know You've Been Reading Shedspeak Too Long When :-
> 
> "pantile" suddenly starts looking like an adjective.

We must take good care of our trousers, 
lest they desert our equatorial regions.

-- 
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The message

from bobharvey  contains these words:

> > Like a clethering stick.

> clettering , shirley?

That would be a regional thing.

-- 
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Not to be sniffed at.

The message 
from Tim Hall  contains these words:

> >Like a clethering stick.

> Clettering, shirley.

In CCF, yes, but round where I grew up it was clethering.

-- 
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Not to be sniffed at.

The message

from bobharvey  contains these words:

> In Baker Perkins we talked about MIFs - Maintenance Induced Faults.
> It became a verb: "I really miffed that up", "The main DC drive was
> miffed by the customer".

If you fiddle with it long enough it'll break. If you fiddle with it
hard enough it might start jbexing again.

Then there's the whole thorny issue of Percussive Maintenance.

-- 
Skipweasel
Not to be sniffed at.

Znep wrote:
> In uk.rec.sheds,  (bobharvey) wrote in
> ::
> 
>> "pog" - muddy. Clagged up.  "My boots were all a-pog when I got
>> home".  "Pog-stick" - a bit of scrap wood used for scraping boots.
> 
> In Lancs, "pog" is a verb meaning to ruin or spoil: "Ah, you've pogged
> that!" Also used in the sense of "I'm pogged" when you're full to
> bursting.  

Also a potato as in "a spud or pog gun"
and to steal "Tha's pogged me butty" or "I'm off t' shops to pog 
summat". However, piles of bonfire wood were scragged rather than pogged.

I rather liked the use of "nowty" (written, I believe, as "naughty") to 
indicate vexatious or egregious behaviour. My sister were a reet nowty 
bossy two boots.

Oddly enough "naught", written "nowt", meant nil or nothing but that 
perhaps has naught to do with it.

-- 
nev

nev young wrote:
> Znep wrote:
>> In uk.rec.sheds,  (bobharvey) wrote in
>> ::
>>
>>> "pog" - muddy. Clagged up.  "My boots were all a-pog when I got
>>> home".  "Pog-stick" - a bit of scrap wood used for scraping boots.
>>
>> In Lancs, "pog" is a verb meaning to ruin or spoil: "Ah, you've pogged
>> that!" Also used in the sense of "I'm pogged" when you're full to
>> bursting.  
> 
> Also a potato as in "a spud or pog gun"
> and to steal "Tha's pogged me butty" or "I'm off t' shops to pog 
> summat". However, piles of bonfire wood were scragged rather than pogged.
> 
> I rather liked the use of "nowty" (written, I believe, as "naughty") to 
> indicate vexatious or egregious behaviour. My sister were a reet nowty 
> bossy two boots.
> 
> Oddly enough "naught", written "nowt", meant nil or nothing but that 
> perhaps has naught to do with it.
> 
I always rather like 'mithering' and 'mithered'.  And also mardy, 
meaning having a good sulk: 'She's got a right mardy on' being common in 
the parts of Linconshire I lived in as a chld.

-- 
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On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:16:01 -0800 (PST), bobharvey
 wrote:

>On 4 Nov, 01:49, Znep  wrote:
>
>> In Lancs, "pog" is a verb meaning to ruin or spoil: "Ah, you've pogged
>> that!" Also used in the sense of "I'm pogged" when you're full to
>> bursting.  I'm told it's used somewhat on the cobbled side of the M62
>> TAAW.
>
>In Baker Perkins we talked about MIFs - Maintenance Induced Faults.
>It became a verb: "I really miffed that up", "The main DC drive was
>miffed by the customer".

In the Lab I designated a specimen reception bench as "Initial
Processing"

After countless years, duty in that section is still known as "Ipping"


-- 
 ®óñ©  ©  ²°¹°-°¹

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:56:15 +0000, nev young
 wrote:

>Also a potato as in "a spud or pog gun"
>and to steal "Tha's pogged me butty" or "I'm off t' shops to pog 
>summat". However, piles of bonfire wood were scragged rather than pogged.
>
>I rather liked the use of "nowty" (written, I believe, as "naughty") to 
>indicate vexatious or egregious behaviour. My sister were a reet nowty 
>bossy two boots.

In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'

On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'


-- 
 ®óñ©  ©  ²°¹°-°¹

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:02:15 -0000, ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹  wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:56:15 퍍, nev young
>  wrote:
>
>> Also a potato as in "a spud or pog gun"
>> and to steal "Tha's pogged me butty" or "I'm off t' shops to pog
>> summat". However, piles of bonfire wood were scragged rather than  >> pogged.
>>
>> I rather liked the use of "nowty" (written, I believe, as "naughty") to
>> indicate vexatious or egregious behaviour. My sister were a reet nowty
>> bossy two boots.
>
> In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'
Brigstow'l? I'm getting the accent in me earole now.
>
> On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'
>
Aye, poor dab. (a sympathetic term for someone afflicted with mental  and/or physical difficulties).


-- "Say a wise saying, and your name will live forever." - Anonymous

In message , ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹ 
 writes

>In the Lab I designated a specimen reception bench as "Initial
>Processing"
>
>After countless years, duty in that section is still known as "Ipping"

Isn't that a posh place in Essex?



-- 
Bernard Peek

In message , ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹ 
 writes
>In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'

>On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'

An old Kentish word for an insect is a 'wigger'.
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Unsolicited advertising matter unwelcome. Offenders may be blacklisted.

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:45:29 +0000, Andrew Marshall
 wrote:

>In message , ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹ 
> writes
>>In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'
>
>>On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'
>
>An old Kentish word for an insect is a 'wigger'.

Ah, presumably conected to earwigs?


Yesterday, up near Stratford (Warwickshire, not E15) I was asked was I
"caggy 'anded", OWTTE.
-- 
Tim

In message , Tim Hall 
 writes
>On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:45:29 +0000, Andrew Marshall
> wrote:
>>In message , ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹
>> writes
>>>In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'

>>>On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'
>>
>>An old Kentish word for an insect is a 'wigger'.
>
>Ah, presumably conected to earwigs?

I reckon so, yes. IIRC an older form of 'earwig' was 'ear-wicga' (sp?). 
Mum was born and raised in Kent (in the Maidstone area), and she 
referred to insects as 'wiggers', as did Nan and Grandad, who were also 
Kent born and bred.
-- 
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Unsolicited advertising matter unwelcome. Offenders may be blacklisted.

Andrew Marshall  wrote
>In message , Tim Hall 
> writes
>>On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:45:29 +0000, Andrew Marshall
>> wrote:
>>>In message , ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹
>>> writes
>>>>In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'
>
>>>>On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'
>>>
>>>An old Kentish word for an insect is a 'wigger'.
>>
>>Ah, presumably conected to earwigs?
>
>I reckon so, yes. IIRC an older form of 'earwig' was 'ear-wicga' (sp?).

They were used in the old religions - "ear-wicca".
-- 
Roger Hunt

In news:19r2f5pn4dmp6np0lflthooncvvhonhcud@4ax.com,
Tim Hall  tweaked the Babbage-Engine to 
tell us:

> Ah, presumably conected to earwigs?

Which are "chuggypigs" in Devon & Cornwall.

-- 
Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
Historians' Right To Work Campaign - We Demand A Continuing
Supply Of History!

Sn!pe said:
> Richard Robinson  wrote:
>
>> Oh dear.
>> 
>> You Know You've Been Reading Shedspeak Too Long When :-
>> 
>> "pantile" suddenly starts looking like an adjective.
>
> We must take good care of our trousers, 
> lest they desert our equatorial regions.

But OTOH, it's colder at our poles ?


-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

Skipweasel said:
> The message
>
> from bobharvey  contains these words:
>
>> > Like a clethering stick.
>
>> clettering , shirley?
>
> That would be a regional thing.

Not to be confused with kettering, then.


-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

In message , Tim Hall 
 writes
>On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:45:29 +0000, Andrew Marshall
> wrote:
>
>>In message , ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹
>> writes
>>>In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'
>>
>>>On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'
>>
>>An old Kentish word for an insect is a 'wigger'.
>
>Ah, presumably conected to earwigs?
>
>
>Yesterday, up near Stratford (Warwickshire, not E15) I was asked was I
>"caggy 'anded", OWTTE.

Cack-handed in E15.



-- 
Bernard Peek

The message 
from Richard Robinson  contains these words:

> >> > Like a clethering stick.
> >
> >> clettering , shirley?
> >
> > That would be a regional thing.

> Not to be confused with kettering, then.

Nah, that's what you scrape off with a clethering stick.

-- 
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Not to be sniffed at.

Skipweasel said:
> The message 
> from Richard Robinson  contains these words:
>
>> >> > Like a clethering stick.
>> >
>> >> clettering , shirley?
>> >
>> > That would be a regional thing.
>
>> Not to be confused with kettering, then.
>
> Nah, that's what you scrape off with a clethering stick.

How annoying, my roadmap/atlas thingy has nowhere called Stick for that to
not be confused with.


-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

Bernard Peek wrote:
> In message , Tim Hall 
>  writes
>> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:45:29 +0000, Andrew Marshall
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> In message , ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹
>>>  writes
>>>> In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'
>>>
>>>> On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'
>>>
>>> An old Kentish word for an insect is a 'wigger'.
>>
>> Ah, presumably conected to earwigs?
>>
>>
>> Yesterday, up near Stratford (Warwickshire, not E15) I was asked was I
>> "caggy 'anded", OWTTE.
> 
> Cack-handed in E15.

Carriwheekit fits the bill nicely here.

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Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
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On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:08:10 +0000, Tim Hall
 wrote:

>On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:45:29 +0000, Andrew Marshall
> wrote:
>
>>In message , ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹ 
>> writes
>>>In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'
>>
>>>On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'
>>
>>An old Kentish word for an insect is a 'wigger'.
>
>Ah, presumably conected to earwigs?

You had insects?   We used to have to go around after air raids
collecting shrapnel if we wanted a hobby.

-- 
 ®óñ©  ©  ²°¹°-°¹

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:33:31 +0000, Bernard Peek <bap$@shrdlu.com>
wrote:

>In message , Tim Hall 
> writes
>>On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:45:29 +0000, Andrew Marshall
>> wrote:
>>
>>>In message , ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹
>>> writes
>>>>In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'
>>>
>>>>On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'
>>>
>>>An old Kentish word for an insect is a 'wigger'.
>>
>>Ah, presumably conected to earwigs?
>>
>>
>>Yesterday, up near Stratford (Warwickshire, not E15) I was asked was I
>>"caggy 'anded", OWTTE.
>
>Cack-handed in E15.

And Keck-handed    (Yer Bristle again)

-- 
 ®óñ©  ©  ²°¹°-°¹

Richard Robinson wrote:

> But OTOH, it's colder at our poles ?
> 
It's also colder here in Denmark - much colder than yesterday and it 
snows too. How dare it! Anyone up for a bet on how much the trains will 
be delayed tomorrow zbeavat because of it?

-- 
Kind Regards,
Nikitta
"If Elves are plural of Elvis the plot of eg. Lord of the Rings changes
quite drastically. Perhaps I should try to read it again with these new
glasses... " Rasmus Bøg Hansen, AFDA

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:33:43 +0100, Nikitta 
wrote:

>Richard Robinson wrote:
>
>> But OTOH, it's colder at our poles ?
>> 
>It's also colder here in Denmark - much colder than yesterday and it 
>snows too. How dare it! Anyone up for a bet on how much the trains will 
>be delayed tomorrow zbeavat because of it?

Not at all probably, unlike in yer Ingland.

BTW why ROT morning, you got something against the Ante Meridian?


-- 
Kind regards0

 ®óñ©  ©  ²°¹°-°¹

Tim Hall says...
> 
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:45:29 퍍, Andrew Marshall
>  wrote:
> 
> >In message , ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹ 
> > writes
> >>In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'
> >
> >>On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'
> >
> >An old Kentish word for an insect is a 'wigger'.
> 
> Ah, presumably conected to earwigs?
> 
> 
> Yesterday, up near Stratford (Warwickshire, not E15) I was asked was I
> "caggy 'anded", OWTTE.

Ah that reminds me of being called a cuddy-wifter when in, and around, 
Redcar.

-- 

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I'm an alien
email: usenet at peterward dot adsl24 dot co dot uk
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not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein

®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹ wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:33:43 +0100, Nikitta 
> wrote:
> 
>> Richard Robinson wrote:
>>
>>> But OTOH, it's colder at our poles ?
>>>
>> It's also colder here in Denmark - much colder than yesterday and it 
>> snows too. How dare it! Anyone up for a bet on how much the trains will 
>> be delayed tomorrow zbeavat because of it?
> 
> Not at all probably, unlike in yer Ingland.
> 
They're famous for it here too; it's not so many days ago that they had 
to cancel some trains because of the rain.

> BTW why ROT morning, you got something against the Ante Meridian?
> 
I'm not a big fan of it, no.

-- 
Kind Regards,
Nikitta
"If Elves are plural of Elvis the plot of eg. Lord of the Rings changes
quite drastically. Perhaps I should try to read it again with these new
glasses... " Rasmus Bøg Hansen, AFDA

Peter Ward wrote:

> Ah that reminds me of being called a cuddy-wifter when in, and around, 
> Redcar.
> 
I'm sorry, but IRTA "cuddly-wifer".

-- 
Kind Regards,
Nikitta
"If Elves are plural of Elvis the plot of eg. Lord of the Rings changes
quite drastically. Perhaps I should try to read it again with these new
glasses... " Rasmus Bøg Hansen, AFDA

In uk.rec.sheds,  (Skipweasel) wrote in
::

>The message
>
>from bobharvey  contains these words:
>
>> > Like a clethering stick.
>
>> clettering , shirley?
>
>That would be a regional thing.

That would be an ecumenical matter.
-- 
Marc

  Rules are for the guidance of the Wise, and blind observance of Fools.  (Oscar Wilde)

In uk.rec.sheds,  (Bernard Peek) wrote in
::

>In message , Tim Hall 
> writes
>>On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:45:29 +0000, Andrew Marshall
>> wrote:
>>
>>>In message , ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹
>>> writes
>>>>In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'
>>>
>>>>On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'
>>>
>>>An old Kentish word for an insect is a 'wigger'.
>>
>>Ah, presumably conected to earwigs?
>>
>>
>>Yesterday, up near Stratford (Warwickshire, not E15) I was asked was I
>>"caggy 'anded", OWTTE.
>
>Cack-handed in E15.

A reference to the left-hand trick, I suppose?
-- 
Marc

"Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." -- Clarence Darrow

In uk.rec.sheds,  (Kate XXXXXX) wrote in
::

>nev young wrote:
>> Znep wrote:
>>> In uk.rec.sheds,  (bobharvey) wrote in
>>> ::
>>>
>>>> "pog" - muddy. Clagged up.  "My boots were all a-pog when I got
>>>> home".  "Pog-stick" - a bit of scrap wood used for scraping boots.
>>>
>>> In Lancs, "pog" is a verb meaning to ruin or spoil: "Ah, you've pogged
>>> that!" Also used in the sense of "I'm pogged" when you're full to
>>> bursting.  
>> 
>> Also a potato as in "a spud or pog gun"
>> and to steal "Tha's pogged me butty" or "I'm off t' shops to pog 
>> summat". However, piles of bonfire wood were scragged rather than pogged.
>> 
>> I rather liked the use of "nowty" (written, I believe, as "naughty") to 
>> indicate vexatious or egregious behaviour. My sister were a reet nowty 
>> bossy two boots.
>> 
>> Oddly enough "naught", written "nowt", meant nil or nothing but that 
>> perhaps has naught to do with it.
>> 
>I always rather like 'mithering' and 'mithered'.  And also mardy, 
>meaning having a good sulk: 'She's got a right mardy on' being common in 
>the parts of Linconshire I lived in as a chld.

In the NW TAAW.  Possibly a corruption of "marred", via "mar'd" (as seen
in Shakespeare) - i.e. "spoiled".
-- 
Marc

"Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." -- Clarence Darrow

In uk.rec.sheds,  (nev young) wrote in
<hcrfg9$3o9$1@news.eternal-september.org>::

>Znep wrote:
>> In uk.rec.sheds,  (bobharvey) wrote in
>> ::
>> 
>>> "pog" - muddy. Clagged up.  "My boots were all a-pog when I got
>>> home".  "Pog-stick" - a bit of scrap wood used for scraping boots.
>> 
>> In Lancs, "pog" is a verb meaning to ruin or spoil: "Ah, you've pogged
>> that!" Also used in the sense of "I'm pogged" when you're full to
>> bursting.  
>
>Also a potato as in "a spud or pog gun"
>and to steal "Tha's pogged me butty" or "I'm off t' shops to pog 
>summat". However, piles of bonfire wood were scragged rather than pogged.
>
>I rather liked the use of "nowty" (written, I believe, as "naughty") to 
>indicate vexatious or egregious behaviour. My sister were a reet nowty 
>bossy two boots.

Aye, I recall that as well.  Also used as in "bad-tempered".

>Oddly enough "naught", written "nowt", meant nil or nothing but that 
>perhaps has naught to do with it.

I suspect it's linked.

"Naughty" has an interesting history.  Shakespeare refers to one or two
characters as "naughty", and it looks almost Pythonesque to the modern
eye- but it was once a /much/ stronger word, and would have got you
punched in the average tavern.  

I'd guess the nearest modern word would be something like "nihilistic".
-- 
Marc

  Rules are for the guidance of the Wise, and blind observance of Fools.  (Oscar Wilde)

In uk.rec.sheds,  (Nikitta) wrote in
<hcs4fb$7ol$1@news.eternal-september.org>::

>®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹ wrote:
>> On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:33:43 +0100, Nikitta 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Richard Robinson wrote:
>>>
>>>> But OTOH, it's colder at our poles ?
>>>>
>>> It's also colder here in Denmark - much colder than yesterday and it 
>>> snows too. How dare it! Anyone up for a bet on how much the trains will 
>>> be delayed tomorrow zbeavat because of it?
>> 
>> Not at all probably, unlike in yer Ingland.
>> 
>They're famous for it here too; it's not so many days ago that they had 
>to cancel some trains because of the rain.
>
>> BTW why ROT morning, you got something against the Ante Meridian?
>> 
>I'm not a big fan of it, no.

Stops last night from bumping into this afternoon.
-- 
Marc

  Rules are for the guidance of the Wise, and blind observance of Fools.  (Oscar Wilde)

Richard Robinson wrote:
> Skipweasel said:
>> The message 
>> from Richard Robinson  contains these words:
>>
>>>>>> Like a clethering stick.
>>>>> clettering , shirley?
>>>> That would be a regional thing.
>>> Not to be confused with kettering, then.
>> Nah, that's what you scrape off with a clethering stick.
> 
> How annoying, my roadmap/atlas thingy has nowhere called Stick for that to
> not be confused with.
> 
> 
The Trezna get Stuck not far from Hamburg, and a there's Sticker in 
Cornwall.

(Thank you, Autoroute.)

-- 
Tciao for Now!

John.

John Williamson said:
> Richard Robinson wrote:
>> Skipweasel said:
>>> from Richard Robinson  contains these words:
>>>
>>>>>>> Like a clethering stick.
>>>>>> clettering , shirley?
>>>>> That would be a regional thing.
>>>> Not to be confused with kettering, then.
>>> Nah, that's what you scrape off with a clethering stick.
>> 
>> How annoying, my roadmap/atlas thingy has nowhere called Stick for that to
>> not be confused with.
>> 
> The Trezna get Stuck not far from Hamburg

Hurrah !

> and a there's Sticker in 
> Cornwall.
>
> (Thank you, Autoroute.)

Yes, I saw that in the index of my humble old-technology map book. But I
wanted exactitudinesshoodicity.


-- 
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"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

Richard Robinson wrote:
> John Williamson said:
>> Richard Robinson wrote:
>>> Skipweasel said:
>>>> from Richard Robinson  contains these words:
>>>>
>>>>>>>> Like a clethering stick.
>>>>>>> clettering , shirley?
>>>>>> That would be a regional thing.
>>>>> Not to be confused with kettering, then.
>>>> Nah, that's what you scrape off with a clethering stick.
>>> How annoying, my roadmap/atlas thingy has nowhere called Stick for that to
>>> not be confused with.
>>>
>> The Trezna get Stuck not far from Hamburg
> 
> Hurrah !
> 
>> and a there's Sticker in 
>> Cornwall.
>>
>> (Thank you, Autoroute.)
> 
> Yes, I saw that in the index of my humble old-technology map book. But I
> wanted exactitudinesshoodicity.
> 
> 
I don't blame you. I was half expecting to find a Stick in Belgium or 
the Netherlands, but apparently not. Wow and Boom are two I unforget 
from my last few trips.

-- 
Tciao for Now!

John.

Nikitta says...
> 
> Peter Ward wrote:
> 
> > Ah that reminds me of being called a cuddy-wifter when in, and around, 
> > Redcar.
> > 
> I'm sorry, but IRTA "cuddly-wifer".

No need to apologise.

-- 

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I'm an alien
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John Williamson said:
> Richard Robinson wrote:
>> John Williamson said:
>>> Richard Robinson wrote:
>>>> Skipweasel said:
>>>>> from Richard Robinson  contains these words:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Like a clethering stick.
>>>>>>>> clettering , shirley?
>>>>>>> That would be a regional thing.
>>>>>> Not to be confused with kettering, then.
>>>>> Nah, that's what you scrape off with a clethering stick.
>>>> How annoying, my roadmap/atlas thingy has nowhere called Stick for that to
>>>> not be confused with.
>>>>
>>> The Trezna get Stuck not far from Hamburg
>> 
>> Hurrah !
>> 
>>> and a there's Sticker in 
>>> Cornwall.
>>>
>>> (Thank you, Autoroute.)
>> 
>> Yes, I saw that in the index of my humble old-technology map book. But I
>> wanted exactitudinesshoodicity.
>> 
>> 
> I don't blame you. I was half expecting to find a Stick in Belgium or 
> the Netherlands, but apparently not. Wow and Boom are two I unforget 
> from my last few trips.

If we can manage a Stow-on-the-Wold, I don't see why we couldn't run to a
Stick-in-the-Mud. Bah.


-- 
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"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

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Dave Larrington  wrote:

> > Ah, presumably conected to earwigs?
> 
> Which are "chuggypigs" in Devon & Cornwall.

Woodlice are 'cheesybobs' in Surrey.

-- 
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On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:44:12 +0000, "Paul C. Dickie"
 wrote:

>Here's your chance!
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8338077.stm
>
>Anything will do, from the Sheddi dialect to something you've just made 
>up but which you can say was common when you were a child.
>
>z.b.  "Ogeepogurt", which I heard a few times in the early 1960s in 
>northern Cheshire; it meant dog gheqf.

"Dree"- quoted as from  Lancashire- was also common in
Nottinghamshire. "It's drizzling quite dree"- "the rain is quite
heavy".

Some months ago there was a news item about oddball words in small
regions of Leftpondia- including "rifting". 
"I'm rifting"="I've got a gut full of gas/feel bloated/uncomfortable".
And "rifting" is another word I've heard used- with the same meaning-
in Nottinghamshire.

--
Only three people have ever understood the Schleswig-Holstein problem
One's dead, one's gone mad, and I've forgotten.

Kate XXXXXX wrote:
> I always rather like 'mithering' and 'mithered'.  

I unforget when I lived in Phzoreanhyq that the local am-dram soc were 
doing Hobson's Choice. The good lady director, from Aberdeen I believe, 
was quite adamant that the word "mithered" was pronounced "may'theired". 
We found it amusing as we're from notloB.
-- 
Nev

On 4 Nov,  
     Peter Ward  wrote:

> Ah that reminds me of being called a cuddy-wifter when in, and around, 
> Redcar.

Haven't been called that for many a fortnight.

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On 4 Nov,  
     ®óñ©  ©  ²°¹°-°¹  wrote:

> BTW why ROT morning, you got something against the Ante Meridian?
> 
I gel to mollish out they do not exist.


-- 
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On 04/11/09 15:27, Znep wrote:
> In uk.rec.sheds,  (Bernard Peek) wrote in
> ::
>
>> In message, Tim Hall
>>   writes
>>> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:45:29 +0000, Andrew Marshall
>>>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> In message, ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹
>>>>   writes
>>>>> In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'
>>>>
>>>>> On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'
>>>>
>>>> An old Kentish word for an insect is a 'wigger'.
>>>
>>> Ah, presumably conected to earwigs?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yesterday, up near Stratford (Warwickshire, not E15) I was asked was I
>>> "caggy 'anded", OWTTE.
>>
>> Cack-handed in E15.
>
> A reference to the left-hand trick, I suppose?

A Stranger.

In uk.rec.sheds,  (tersono) wrote in
::

>On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:44:12 +0000, "Paul C. Dickie"
> wrote:
>
>>Here's your chance!
>>
>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8338077.stm
>>
>>Anything will do, from the Sheddi dialect to something you've just made 
>>up but which you can say was common when you were a child.
>>
>>z.b.  "Ogeepogurt", which I heard a few times in the early 1960s in 
>>northern Cheshire; it meant dog gheqf.
>
>"Dree"- quoted as from  Lancashire- was also common in
>Nottinghamshire. "It's drizzling quite dree"- "the rain is quite
>heavy".
>
>Some months ago there was a news item about oddball words in small
>regions of Leftpondia- including "rifting". 

My F-i-L  uses that- it's certainly not uniquely leftpondian.

>"I'm rifting"="I've got a gut full of gas/feel bloated/uncomfortable".
>And "rifting" is another word I've heard used- with the same meaning-
>in Nottinghamshire.
-- 
Marc

"Just because people find you annoying, that doesn't mean you're a  genius ahead of your time." - serene

Skipweasel wrote (apparently) in uk.rec.sheds on Wed 04 Nov 2009 
08:07:31:

> The message
> 
> from bobharvey  contains these words:
> 
>> In Baker Perkins we talked about MIFs - Maintenance Induced Faults.
>> It became a verb: "I really miffed that up", "The main DC drive was
>> miffed by the customer".
> 
> If you fiddle with it long enough it'll break. If you fiddle with it
> hard enough it might start jbexing again.
> 
> Then there's the whole thorny issue of Percussive Maintenance.
> 
Hmm, percussive maintenance. Yup, at jbex we have spent some 
considerable time getting people up in lofts, gently tapping motors on  
fan units with a mallet. We know the motor's borked, but they feel 
involved.

Strangely one person we tried this on now installs ventilation systems 
for us. He asked why we had told him to do the mallet thing. He agreed 
that he felt better for belting the penc out of the thing than 
returning it for checking. Just another customer service we offer...
-- 
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Always, seemingly, on the road to nowhere

The message 
from Mr Guest  contains these words:

> Strangely one person we tried this on now installs ventilation systems 
> for us. 

Cor - I used to jbex for Kiloheat in Sevenoaks - that takes me back a bit.

-- 
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Not to be sniffed at.

Andrew Marshall wrote:
> In message , ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹ 
>  writes
>> In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'
> 
>> On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'
> 
> An old Kentish word for an insect is a 'wigger'.

we called any creature [earwig, woodlouse, beetle etc] of that size a 
wikki.

-- 
nev

Znep wrote:

> "Naughty" has an interesting history.  Shakespeare refers to one or two
> characters as "naughty", and it looks almost Pythonesque to the modern
> eye- but it was once a /much/ stronger word, and would have got you
> punched in the average tavern.  
> 
It doesn't surprise me at all. An indictment I looked at recently (dated 
1543) had someone up before the hundred petty session for "calling 
him[1] a fool".

[1] the local parson.

Life were hard in them days, by eck.
-- 
nev

tersono wrote:
> "Dree"- quoted as from  Lancashire- was also common in
> Nottinghamshire. "It's drizzling quite dree"- "the rain is quite
> heavy".
> 
> Some months ago there was a news item about oddball words in small
> regions of Leftpondia- including "rifting". 
> "I'm rifting"="I've got a gut full of gas/feel bloated/uncomfortable".
> And "rifting" is another word I've heard used- with the same meaning-
> in Nottinghamshire.

All them leftpondians are nesh.
-- 
nev

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:58:35 +0000, nev young
 wrote:

>tersono wrote:
>> "Dree"- quoted as from  Lancashire- was also common in
>> Nottinghamshire. "It's drizzling quite dree"- "the rain is quite
>> heavy".
>> 
>> Some months ago there was a news item about oddball words in small
>> regions of Leftpondia- including "rifting". 
>> "I'm rifting"="I've got a gut full of gas/feel bloated/uncomfortable".
>> And "rifting" is another word I've heard used- with the same meaning-
>> in Nottinghamshire.
>
>All them leftpondians are nesh.

I don't know what that means, but it's probably pejorative. And an
overstatement.

LizzH.

--  

Whatever happened to linoleum floors, petroleum jelly and two world wars?

http://www.fannation.com/blogs/show/826793-cricket-she-wrote

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:48:18 +0000
nev young  wrote:

> Andrew Marshall wrote:
> > In message , ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹ 
> >  writes
> >> In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'
> > 
> >> On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'
> > 
> > An old Kentish word for an insect is a 'wigger'.
> 
> we called any creature [earwig, woodlouse, beetle etc] of that size a 
> wikki.

	So a wikkipedia is a collection of bugs ?

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In uk.rec.sheds,  (Lizz Holmans) wrote in
::

>On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:58:35 +0000, nev young
> wrote:
>
>>tersono wrote:
>>> "Dree"- quoted as from  Lancashire- was also common in
>>> Nottinghamshire. "It's drizzling quite dree"- "the rain is quite
>>> heavy".
>>> 
>>> Some months ago there was a news item about oddball words in small
>>> regions of Leftpondia- including "rifting". 
>>> "I'm rifting"="I've got a gut full of gas/feel bloated/uncomfortable".
>>> And "rifting" is another word I've heard used- with the same meaning-
>>> in Nottinghamshire.
>>
>>All them leftpondians are nesh.
>
>I don't know what that means, but it's probably pejorative. And an
>overstatement.

It means "soft" in a particular manner, e.g. complaining when it's cold
and such.  A splendid leftpondian lady of my acquaintance once said: "To
me, it's 'camping' if there's slow room service or an unheated pool."
-- 
Marc

Once I drove so fast that my friend, who was pregnant, started having
Lorentz contractions.
"Ahah," you might ask, "but how far apart were they?" - Adam Fineman

Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:48:18 +0000
> nev young  wrote:
> 
>> Andrew Marshall wrote:
>>> In message , ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹ 
>>>  writes
>>>> In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'
>>>> On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'
>>> An old Kentish word for an insect is a 'wigger'.
>> we called any creature [earwig, woodlouse, beetle etc] of that size a 
>> wikki.
> 
> 	So a wikkipedia is a collection of bugs ?
> 
many a thing said in jest ....
-- 
nev

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:15:48 +0000
Lizz Holmans  wrote:

> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:58:35 +0000, nev young
>  wrote:
> 
> >tersono wrote:
> >> "Dree"- quoted as from  Lancashire- was also common in
> >> Nottinghamshire. "It's drizzling quite dree"- "the rain is quite
> >> heavy".
> >> 
> >> Some months ago there was a news item about oddball words in small
> >> regions of Leftpondia- including "rifting". 
> >> "I'm rifting"="I've got a gut full of gas/feel bloated/uncomfortable".
> >> And "rifting" is another word I've heard used- with the same meaning-
> >> in Nottinghamshire.
> >
> >All them leftpondians are nesh.
> 
> I don't know what that means, but it's probably pejorative. And an
> overstatement.

	Well to me it means something like "unreasonably sensitive to cold
weather", but having spent part of a November in Chicago I can't really see
how it could apply to all leftpondians.

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Lizz Holmans wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:58:35 +0000, nev young
>  wrote:
> 
>> tersono wrote:
>>> "Dree"- quoted as from  Lancashire- was also common in
>>> Nottinghamshire. "It's drizzling quite dree"- "the rain is quite
>>> heavy".
>>>
>>> Some months ago there was a news item about oddball words in small
>>> regions of Leftpondia- including "rifting". 
>>> "I'm rifting"="I've got a gut full of gas/feel bloated/uncomfortable".
>>> And "rifting" is another word I've heard used- with the same meaning-
>>> in Nottinghamshire.
>> All them leftpondians are nesh.
> 
> I don't know what that means, but it's probably pejorative. And an
> overstatement.
> 
not really intended as such. My meaning would probably be translated as:
Those leftpondians who complain of rifting (feeling bloated) are most 
likely those who are nesh (would complain about other minor things).

"nesh" being, I believe, a Nottinghamshire word for a "softy".

It was a feeble attempt to combine both leftpondian and Nottinghamshire 
themes from earlier in the thread, in a dialect form, and to introduce a 
new word to the thread.

-- 
nev

On 5 Nov, 09:15, Lizz Holmans  wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:58:35 퍍, nev young
>
>  wrote:
> >tersono wrote:
> >> "Dree"- quoted as from  Lancashire- was also common in
> >> Nottinghamshire. "It's drizzling quite dree"- "the rain is quite
> >> heavy".
>
> >> Some months ago there was a news item about oddball words in small
> >> regions of Leftpondia- including "rifting".
> >> "I'm rifting"="I've got a gut full of gas/feel bloated/uncomfortable> >> And "rifting" is another word I've heard used- with the same meaning-
> >> in Nottinghamshire.
>
> >All them leftpondians are nesh.
>
> I don't know what that means, but it's probably pejorative. And an
> overstatement.

'Prone to complain about the cold'.  There was once a definition of a
woman as "Someone who would complain about a draught inside a dewer
flask".  That's a bit nesh.

In news:7ldp82F3d6ejoU1@mid.individual.net,
John Williamson  tweaked the Babbage-Engine 
to tell us:

> I don't blame you. I was half expecting to find a Stick in Belgium or
> the Netherlands, but apparently not. Wow and Boom are two I unforget
> from my last few trips.

The Orytvnas also have a Silly.

-- 
Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
Got a horn like a unicorn, man, except it's a whale!

In news:1j8o6mu.bv57g5bqb1hcN%snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk,
Sn!pe  tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us:
> Dave Larrington  wrote:
>
>>> Ah, presumably conected to earwigs?
>>
>> Which are "chuggypigs" in Devon & Cornwall.
>
> Woodlice are 'cheesybobs' in Surrey.

Actually, poking the old memory-branes with a stick makes me think that it's 
woodlice rather than earwigs with are chuggypigs.  Though thanks to Iain 
Banks, I think of them as "baby armadillos".

-- 
Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
Great cars, them Dilemmas!

In message <hctvvr$br6$1@news.eternal-september.org>, nev young 
 writes
>Andrew Marshall wrote:
>> In message , ®óñ© © 
>>²°¹°-°¹   writes
>>> In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'

>>> On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'

>>  An old Kentish word for an insect is a 'wigger'.

>we called any creature [earwig, woodlouse, beetle etc] of that size a 
>wikki.

That sounds as if it has a similar root.

As small children, our family name for woodlice was 'ball-ball wiggers', 
which could perhaps be said to have an element of pidgin in it, as in 
the Cameroon pidgin 'chook-chook beef' ('spike-spike animal') for 
porcupine.
-- 
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Andrew Marshall, G8BUR, M0MAA.
Unsolicited advertising matter unwelcome. Offenders may be blacklisted.

Ahem A Rivet's Shot said:
> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:48:18 +0000
> nev young  wrote:
>
>> Andrew Marshall wrote:
>> > In message , ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹ 
>> >  writes
>> >> In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'
>> > 
>> >> On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'
>> > 
>> > An old Kentish word for an insect is a 'wigger'.
>> 
>> we called any creature [earwig, woodlouse, beetle etc] of that size a 
>> wikki.
>
> 	So a wikkipedia is a collection of bugs ?

of bugs' feet, shirley ?


What goes "Ninety-nine, Edit !"

-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

Andrew Marshall said:
> In message <hctvvr$br6$1@news.eternal-september.org>, nev young 
> writes
>>Andrew Marshall wrote:
>>> In message , ®óñ© © 
>>>²°¹°-°¹   writes
>>>> In Bristol, many moons ago, red chapped knees were 'spreathy'
>
>>>> On the Taffy side of the border, little tots were and are 'duts'
>
>>>  An old Kentish word for an insect is a 'wigger'.
>
>>we called any creature [earwig, woodlouse, beetle etc] of that size a 
>>wikki.
>
> That sounds as if it has a similar root.
>
> As small children, our family name for woodlice was 'ball-ball wiggers', 
> which could perhaps be said to have an element of pidgin in it, as in 
> the Cameroon pidgin 'chook-chook beef' ('spike-spike animal') for 
> porcupine.

Mmm, pidgin.

-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

In message , Richard 
Robinson  writes
>Andrew Marshall said:
>> As small children, our family name for woodlice was 'ball-ball wiggers',
>> which could perhaps be said to have an element of pidgin in it, as in
>> the Cameroon pidgin 'chook-chook beef' ('spike-spike animal') for
>> porcupine.

>Mmm, pidgin.

Given that pijins carry a variety of nasty lurgies, rightly or wrongly 
I've always eschewed them, despite their apparent recent popularity in 
eating-hice.
-- 
Regards,
Andrew Marshall, G8BUR, M0MAA.
Unsolicited advertising matter unwelcome. Offenders may be blacklisted.

In uk.rec.sheds,  (nev young) wrote in
<hcubqs$q4v$1@news.eternal-september.org>::

>Lizz Holmans wrote:
>> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:58:35 +0000, nev young
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> tersono wrote:
>>>> "Dree"- quoted as from  Lancashire- was also common in
>>>> Nottinghamshire. "It's drizzling quite dree"- "the rain is quite
>>>> heavy".
>>>>
>>>> Some months ago there was a news item about oddball words in small
>>>> regions of Leftpondia- including "rifting". 
>>>> "I'm rifting"="I've got a gut full of gas/feel bloated/uncomfortable".
>>>> And "rifting" is another word I've heard used- with the same meaning-
>>>> in Nottinghamshire.
>>> All them leftpondians are nesh.
>> 
>> I don't know what that means, but it's probably pejorative. And an
>> overstatement.
>> 
>not really intended as such. My meaning would probably be translated as:
>Those leftpondians who complain of rifting (feeling bloated) are most 
>likely those who are nesh (would complain about other minor things).
>
>"nesh" being, I believe, a Nottinghamshire word for a "softy".

Much more widespread than that- it's in common use in the NW, but as an
adjective rather than a noun.
-- 
Marc

Once I drove so fast that my friend, who was pregnant, started having
Lorentz contractions.
"Ahah," you might ask, "but how far apart were they?" - Adam Fineman

nev young  wrote:

>Lizz Holmans wrote:
>> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:58:35 +0000, nev young
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> tersono wrote:
>>>> "Dree"- quoted as from  Lancashire- was also common in
>>>> Nottinghamshire. "It's drizzling quite dree"- "the rain is quite
>>>> heavy".
>>>>
>>>> Some months ago there was a news item about oddball words in small
>>>> regions of Leftpondia- including "rifting". 
>>>> "I'm rifting"="I've got a gut full of gas/feel bloated/uncomfortable".
>>>> And "rifting" is another word I've heard used- with the same meaning-
>>>> in Nottinghamshire.
>>> All them leftpondians are nesh.
>> 
>> I don't know what that means, but it's probably pejorative. And an
>> overstatement.
>> 
>not really intended as such. My meaning would probably be translated as:
>Those leftpondians who complain of rifting (feeling bloated) are most 
>likely those who are nesh (would complain about other minor things).
>
>"nesh" being, I believe, a Nottinghamshire word for a "softy".

When I was there (30 years ago), it meant "cold". Like "chavvy" and
"cushty", I understood it was "tinker-talk", ie from Romany.

>It was a feeble attempt to combine both leftpondian and Nottinghamshire 
>themes from earlier in the thread, in a dialect form, and to introduce a 
>new word to the thread.

-- 
Sleepalot   aa #1385

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:47:25 -0000, Dave Larrington  
 wrote:

> In news:7ldp82F3d6ejoU1@mid.individual.net,
> John Williamson  tweaked the  
> Babbage-Engine
> to tell us:
>
>> I don't blame you. I was half expecting to find a Stick in Belgium or
>> the Netherlands, but apparently not. Wow and Boom are two I unforget
>> from my last few trips.
>
> The Orytvnas also have a Silly.
>
There's a brewery. But I missed it.













It wasn't Silly season.

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"Say a wise saying, and your name will live forever." - Anonymous

Dave Larrington wrote:
> In news:1j8o6mu.bv57g5bqb1hcN%snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk,
> Sn!pe  tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us:
>> Dave Larrington  wrote:
>>
>>>> Ah, presumably conected to earwigs?
>>> Which are "chuggypigs" in Devon & Cornwall.
>> Woodlice are 'cheesybobs' in Surrey.
> 
> Actually, poking the old memory-branes with a stick makes me think that it's 
> woodlice rather than earwigs with are chuggypigs.  Though thanks to Iain 
> Banks, I think of them as "baby armadillos".
> 

Now you must remind me which book that is before I strain bits of my brian.


..I've also heard them called "rolly-pollies" by a rather nice Amerkin 
of my acquaintance. Err, woodlice, not brians.

Znep wrote:
> 
> It means "soft" in a particular manner, e.g. complaining when it's cold
> and such.  A splendid leftpondian lady of my acquaintance once said: "To
> me, it's 'camping' if there's slow room service or an unheated pool."

I have clearly played too many games, as I instantly gooved "what, 
because you have to hang around where the food spawns?"

bobharvey wrote:
> 'Prone to complain about the cold'.  There was once a definition of a
> woman as "Someone who would complain about a draught inside a dewer
> flask".  That's a bit nesh.
> 

Hah, a fiend of mine whose family hail from Pakistan (and may have been 
born there herself in a complex way despite being a UK citizen, I 
forget) would probably still be feeling cold in said flask with a wooly 
jumper and a Good Strong Cup Of Proper Tea WOCIT[1].

I tend to resort to opining that she's a lizard, though that's not 
wholly insulting as I have found the majority of lizards that I have met 
entirely charming.

I suppose that's a valid excuse and not being a wuss, as conversely, she 
copes far far better than I with the Yellowface being abroad in The Blue 
Room.


[1] I just coined that, you are not required to understand it. Happy in 
my own world and so forth.

The message <MtGIm.26704$6O1.9593@newsfe08.ams2>
from Ancipital  contains these words:

> Good Strong Cup Of Proper Tea WOCIT[1].

Which Only Contains Indian Tannins?

Which Of Course Isn't Tea?

White Or Cold It's Tremendous?

-- 
Skipweasel
Not to be sniffed at.

Ancipital  wrote
>
>Hah, a fiend of mine whose family hail from Pakistan (and may have been 
>born there herself in a complex way despite being a UK citizen, I 
>forget) would probably still be feeling cold in said flask with a wooly 
>jumper and a Good Strong Cup Of Proper Tea WOCIT[1].
(snip)
>
>[1] I just coined that, you are not required to understand it. Happy in 
>my own world and so forth.

It looks to me that (WOCIT) was used by Andrew Marshall or was it 
Kate Dicey (I can't work out who's writing what in these web forums) 
on 31 August 2003, here -
<http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/showthread.php?t=41416&page=6>

Soooo, I wunder if it means the same in both cases.
-- 
Roger Hunt

Ancipital  wrote:

> [1] I just coined that, you are not required to understand it. Happy in
> my own world and so forth.

I reckon you proper nicked it.

-- 
^Ï^.        Sn!pe        My pet rock Gordon just is.

Sn!pe wrote:
> Ancipital  wrote:
> 
>> [1] I just coined that, you are not required to understand it. Happy in
>> my own world and so forth.
> 
> I reckon you proper nicked it.
> 

Nah, I just fail to learn the lessons of wossname, and thus are damned 
to repeat it.

Ancipital  wrote:

> >> [1] I just coined that, you are not required to understand it. Happy in
> >> my own world and so forth.
> > 
> > I reckon you proper nicked it.
> 
> Nah, I just fail to learn the lessons of wossname, and thus are damned
> to repeat it.

That's her story.

-- 
^Ï^.        Sn!pe        My pet rock Gordon just is.

In message , Roger Hunt 
 writes
>Ancipital  wrote
>>
>>Hah, a fiend of mine whose family hail from Pakistan (and may have been
>>born there herself in a complex way despite being a UK citizen, I
>>forget) would probably still be feeling cold in said flask with a wooly
>>jumper and a Good Strong Cup Of Proper Tea WOCIT[1].
>(snip)
>>
>>[1] I just coined that, you are not required to understand it. Happy in
>>my own world and so forth.
>
>It looks to me that (WOCIT) was used by Andrew Marshall

'Twas me; the T was for Trezna in my hfr of it.
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On 5 Nov, 22:44, Andrew Marshall  wrote:
> In message , Roger Hunt
>  writes
>
> >Ancipital  wrote
>
> >>Hah, a fiend of mine whose family hail from Pakistan (and may have been
> >>born there herself in a complex way despite being a UK citizen, I
> >>forget) would probably still be feeling cold in said flask with a wooly
> >>jumper and a Good Strong Cup Of Proper Tea WOCIT[1].
> >(snip)
>
> >>[1] I just coined that, you are not required to understand it. Happy in
> >>my own world and so forth.
>
> >It looks to me that (WOCIT) was used by Andrew Marshall
>
> 'Twas me; the T was for Trezna in my hfr of it.

I'd just assumed it was 'theft' cos of context

In news:wnGIm.25105$Sn4.6867@newsfe15.ams2,
Ancipital  tweaked the Babbage-Engine to 
tell us:
> Dave Larrington wrote:
>> In news:1j8o6mu.bv57g5bqb1hcN%snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk,
>> Sn!pe  tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell
>> us:
>>> Dave Larrington  wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Ah, presumably conected to earwigs?
>>>> Which are "chuggypigs" in Devon & Cornwall.
>>> Woodlice are 'cheesybobs' in Surrey.
>>
>> Actually, poking the old memory-branes with a stick makes me think
>> that it's woodlice rather than earwigs with are chuggypigs.  Though
>> thanks to Iain Banks, I think of them as "baby armadillos".
>>
>
> Now you must remind me which book that is before I strain bits of my
> brian.

Espedair Street.

-- 
Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
You'll never take me alive, copper!

On 3 Nov, 21:44, "Paul C. Dickie"  wrote:
> Here's your chance!
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8338077.stm
>
> Anything will do, from the Sheddi dialect to something you've just made
> up but which you can say was common when you were a child.
>
> z.b.  "Ogeepogurt", which I heard a few times in the early 1960s in
> northern Cheshire; it meant dog gheqf.

Grantham words
Bruk:  Oh dear, this appears to have ceased functioning
Glock: Circular timepiece, commonly found on churches and mantlepieces
nahre: an interval of time.  E. G. "I'll do it in half a nahre"

The message

from Granthamite  contains these words:

> Grantham words
> Bruk:  Oh dear, this appears to have ceased functioning
> Glock: Circular timepiece, commonly found on churches and mantlepieces
> nahre: an interval of time.  E. G. "I'll do it in half a nahre"

Creche. A road accident in Camberley.

-- 
Skipweasel
Not to be sniffed at.

In message , Skipweasel 
 writes
>The message
>
>from Granthamite  contains these words:
>> Grantham words
>> Bruk:  Oh dear, this appears to have ceased functioning
>> Glock: Circular timepiece, commonly found on churches and mantlepieces
>> nahre: an interval of time.  E. G. "I'll do it in half a nahre"

>Creche. A road accident in Camberley.

Sex. What posh people put coal in.
-- 
Regards,
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Unsolicited advertising matter unwelcome. Offenders may be blacklisted.

Dave Larrington wrote:
>>> Actually, poking the old memory-branes with a stick makes me think
>>> that it's woodlice rather than earwigs with are chuggypigs.  Though
>>> thanks to Iain Banks, I think of them as "baby armadillos".
>>>
>> Now you must remind me which book that is before I strain bits of my
>> brian.
> 
> Espedair Street.
> 

Cor!

On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:38:31 -0000, Ancipital  
 wrote:

> Dave Larrington wrote:
>>>> Actually, poking the old memory-branes with a stick makes me think
>>>> that it's woodlice rather than earwigs with are chuggypigs.  Though
>>>> thanks to Iain Banks, I think of them as "baby armadillos".
>>>>
>>> Now you must remind me which book that is before I strain bits of my
>>> brian.
>>  Espedair Street.
>>
>
IRTA Espedwar Eck.

Pobol y cwm innit?

> Cor!

ITYM Cwor (as in "moi bruvver")


-- 
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On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:52:26 +0100, Nikitta 
wrote:

>> BTW why ROT morning, you got something against the Ante Meridian?
>> 
>I'm not a big fan of it, no.

A colleague was surprised when I said I wasn't a morning person.  "But
you always start jbex so early", he said.  "Aye, but that's so I get a
few hours done before I wake up.  That way, I don't feel like it's
come out of my own time."

Judith

In message , Judith 
 writes
>On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:52:26 +0100, Nikitta 
>wrote:
>
>>> BTW why ROT morning, you got something against the Ante Meridian?
>>>
>>I'm not a big fan of it, no.
>
>A colleague was surprised when I said I wasn't a morning person.  "But
>you always start jbex so early", he said.  "Aye, but that's so I get a
>few hours done before I wake up.  That way, I don't feel like it's
>come out of my own time."

BTDT



-- 
Bernard Peek

Bernard Peek's best pigeon dodged hawks and farmers' guns to bring me 
the following:
>In message , ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹ 
> writes
>
>>In the Lab I designated a specimen reception bench as "Initial
>>Processing"
>>
>>After countless years, duty in that section is still known as "Ipping"
>
>Isn't that a posh place in Essex?
>
Or the home of a Seth Ifrican who's moved to Essex.

-- 
David Reid        David@disarray.org.uk       http://www.disarray.org.uk

David's laws of car restoration:
2) If it doesn't fit, bend it.

Kate XXXXXX's best pigeon dodged hawks and farmers' guns to bring me the 
following:
>nev young wrote:
>> Znep wrote:
>>> In uk.rec.sheds,  (bobharvey) wrote in
>>> ::
>>>
>>>> "pog" - muddy. Clagged up.  "My boots were all a-pog when I got
>>>> home".  "Pog-stick" - a bit of scrap wood used for scraping boots.
>>>
>>> In Lancs, "pog" is a verb meaning to ruin or spoil: "Ah, you've pogged
>>> that!" Also used in the sense of "I'm pogged" when you're full to
>>> bursting.
>>  Also a potato as in "a spud or pog gun"
>> and to steal "Tha's pogged me butty" or "I'm off t' shops to pog 
>>summat". However, piles of bonfire wood were scragged rather than 
>>pogged.
>>  I rather liked the use of "nowty" (written, I believe, as "naughty") 
>>to  indicate vexatious or egregious behaviour. My sister were a reet 
>>nowty  bossy two boots.
>>  Oddly enough "naught", written "nowt", meant nil or nothing but that 
>>perhaps has naught to do with it.
>>
>I always rather like 'mithering' and 'mithered'.  And also mardy, 
>meaning having a good sulk: 'She's got a right mardy on' being common 
>in the parts of Linconshire I lived in as a chld.
>
'Mardy' was common in SW Leicestershire when I was growing up, although 
with a slightly different usage, either 'She's being mardy' or 'She's a 
right mardy wotsit'. ISTR that around Portsmouth 'squiny' has a similar 
meaning but is used as a verb 'She's squinying'.

-- 
David Reid        David@disarray.org.uk       http://www.disarray.org.uk

David's laws of car restoration:
2) If it doesn't fit, bend it.

Znep's best pigeon dodged hawks and farmers' guns to bring me the 
following:
>In uk.rec.sheds,  (nev young) wrote in
><hcubqs$q4v$1@news.eternal-september.org>::
>
>>"nesh" being, I believe, a Nottinghamshire word for a "softy".
>
>Much more widespread than that- it's in common use in the NW, but as an
>adjective rather than a noun.

I've certainly heard it from Stoke-on-Trent.

-- 
David Reid        David@disarray.org.uk       http://www.disarray.org.uk

David's laws of car restoration:
2) If it doesn't fit, bend it.

The message <l4Wp5zuPp7$KFw9a@disarray.org.uk>
from David Reid  contains these words:

> 'Mardy' was common in SW Leicestershire when I was growing up, although 
> with a slightly different usage, either 'She's being mardy' or 'She's a 
> right mardy wotsit'. 

Yeah, you get mardy here in the Wet Mudlands, too.

-- 
Skipweasel
Not to be sniffed at.

Skipweasel  wrote
>The message <l4Wp5zuPp7$KFw9a@disarray.org.uk>
>from David Reid  contains these words:
>
>> 'Mardy' was common in SW Leicestershire when I was growing up, although 
>> with a slightly different usage, either 'She's being mardy' or 'She's a 
>> right mardy wotsit'. 
>
>Yeah, you get mardy here in the Wet Mudlands, too.
>
That's where mardy grass originated too.
-- 
Roger Hunt

On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:28:45 -0000, Skipweasel   
wrote:

> The message <l4Wp5zuPp7$KFw9a@disarray.org.uk>
> from David Reid  contains these words:
>
>> 'Mardy' was common in SW Leicestershire when I was growing up, although
>> with a slightly different usage, either 'She's being mardy' or 'She's a
>> right mardy wotsit'.
>
> Yeah, you get mardy here in the Wet Mudlands, too.
>
Tis a placename AAW.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardy,_Monmouthshire
refers

(NOT reefers as originally tryped)

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