Yorkshire sayings - can you all understand them?

[mrs_overall]

1. Are ye lakin'?
2. Back ginnel
3. He's a right geoff
4. Whearst tha gannin?
5. Whearst ma gansey?

[mrs_overall]

Blimey Mark - I never knew where the word came from - thanks for the link xx

[Buenchico]

Scotman:
I've got a feeling that 3 might have been borrowed from Cockney, rather than being a true Yorkshire saying. ("A right Geoff (Hoon)" means 'baboon' in Cockney slang).

[B00]

Lancs ones, to wet ya whistle...


1. "Ah cud eyt a buttered frog"
2. "Ee's fair bowlegged wi brass"
3. "Mi belly thinks mi throat's bin cut"
4. "Put Th'wood in'th'ole"
5. "Standin theer leyke cheese at fourpence"
6. "Bet tha cud eyt an appul thro a beard wire fence"
7. "Tha meks a betta doower than a winda"
8. "wurt ta gewin"?
9. "Stondin' theer like one a' Burton's dummies"
10. "Thaz a face like a line a wet weshin"


I nicked these from a site, but im sad to say, i actually do say a few of them!

[scotman]

For Mark Rae

Thanks for that link - bookmarked.

[Cowtipper]

I was sitting in a bar with a bunch of ex-pats having a few one night and a Welshman was talking. I couldn't understand a word. I leaned over to a Scot I was sitting next to and said "I can't understand a single word he's saying." The Scot leaned back and told me it was okay, he didn't understand a word either but not to worry because nobody understood the Welsh, not even the Welsh. I didn't get any of these either.

[Buenchico]

Ooh, that's a new one on me, Mark.

Thanks for the link.

[lady-janine]

ooh boo i know and have used most of those.

[maggie21]

1 darling buds of may?

I no don't think im very good at understanding dialect.


must nip to the baarth-ruum, bye for now.

[dotty.]

Do you know what they call a ginnel in lancashire? the Backses, seriously. Must of thunk that one thru real careful like

[mrs_overall]

I've never heard that one before dot

[Count-A-Strong]

Lakin is a sign of Yorkshires historical ties with Scandanavia. Lain means 'play' in Norwegian and possibly Danish.

[dotty.]

When I was a teenager the scousers used to say 'standing about like one of Lewises' not like a burtons dummy B00, Lewis's being the posh shop in Liverpool (next to hendersons and GHL of course)

[Sqad]

"gipping"

[grannie39]

You could also add, wemunberrergerusimbuks,oowershewi,shewerewihe
rsen,

(we must get our hymn books, and who was she with, she was by herself.)

[Polly1958]

I was talking to a man this afty from your town Mrs o and he was telling me about the greasy pole.I'm sure you know what he was on about!