I still say 'Were you born in a barn?': https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/c...ds-and-sayings
I still say 'Were you born in a barn?': https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/c...ds-and-sayings
Last edited by Lex; 27-12-2020 at 09:00 AM.
I usually say, 'Put wood in t'ole!'
Are you sure you've posted the right link, lex?
Of course it'll fit, you just need a bigger hammer.
A Warwickshire word of phrase I came across was the word, Tazzing, as in the phrase, I saw him tazing down the road, meaning going fast.
Last edited by margaret; 27-12-2020 at 04:34 PM.
“I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.”
- Lord Byron.
Another one was ( this nowze) , meaning do it now.
“I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.”
- Lord Byron.
Having just read them, I wouldn't dare use the reference to the chicken in polite company. It means something very different where I come from.
"It's a bit black over Bill's mothers" is a local expression that I hadn't heard until I was quite old.
Of course it'll fit, you just need a bigger hammer.
Now I've reread the chicken one, I get the alternative meaning Rebbonk! 'It's black over Bill's mother's' is one I've only come across in the last few years as well.
Apparently, it refers to rain clouds coming in from Stratford direction, hence reference to Bill.
Of course it'll fit, you just need a bigger hammer.
A few more local words & phrases. One or 2 are a bit more widespread (eg pikeltes) though: https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/ne...-made-19775893
I thought, 'me bab' came from Birmingham way? My mum came from Nuneaton and I never heard her use it.
I suspect that this article has been compiled from a F/B page, so maybe we ought to treat a few of them with a little suspicion?
Of course it'll fit, you just need a bigger hammer.
I did think 1 or 2 were more Brummie - I'd never come across 'blartin' until I made a few friends who haled from Britain's 2nd city.
The Telegraph is (I believe) all written in Birmingham these days with a lot of syndicated material coming from Liverpool.
Oddly enough, blartin' was a fairly common phrase when I was growing up in Wyken.
Of course it'll fit, you just need a bigger hammer.
I've been greeted with Hello Bab, or hello Duck, on chatting on the buses or at the bus stop.
That word blartin', made me s n i g g e r , as it is a rude word in Scotland, at least it was when I was growing up.
ps.
The word s n i g g e r , would not show up if I typed the letters together. I wonder why? Hence me separating the letters.
Last edited by margaret; 04-03-2021 at 02:16 PM.
“I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.”
- Lord Byron.
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