wigan words please

[DKX]

any wigan words to be posted here
i'll start you off.... "clemt de'th" = very hungry
"bab'ies ed" = steak pie

[silly moo]

Sorry but babies head is a steak & kidney pudding not a pie.
(reminds you of a bald head)

[DKX]

yeah, but thats not the answer to my question :P

[Peter Pedant]

Yeah you need clemming, grandma Cooper used to say to her angelic grandchildren.

clemmen is to starve in Dutch and doubtless there is a common origin.

oop t' North - or oop t mill, the is never changed to t' and this probably represents the Danish article te. Wigan would have been within the Danelaw.

Linguisitics is interesting but dont do it fulltime it doestn pay the rent.

[Peter Pedant]

oops my contact pointed out that Wigan was not part of the Danelaw which was east of Wigan and that pre 1066 it was part of Cumbria which was a norwegian kingdom.

He suggested scrike for weep/cry

and also theres a wigan word for retch/vomit - cost?

(he speaks Swedish)

[hattster]

Me mam used to say that i "scriked" alot as a baby :o) probably cos i was clempt and needed some jackbit :o)