General Chat

There seem to be a lot of us who live in or near Northampton.M duck is still very common here in `Kettering.I am not from these parts ,only been here since 1985.I am used to hearing "All right Bird" Plymouth!

Apparently the saying comes from being able to stand under the protruding thatched eaves and listen to the conversation going on in the house.People would shelter under the eaves if it was raining.I just looked it up on google .

Where does "eaves dropping" come from?

Hi Anne

you wouldnt recognise it now the dockyard is more a museum than a working dockyard now, my dad worked when he 1st left school in 1954 and there where thousands of workers now only a couple of hundered.

Fareham accents are totally different to portsmouth, they have more of a hampshire accent, where as portsmouth flatten their vowels. Where you born in Fareham?

Hi Lorraine, I am going back further than you, I worked in Portsmouth, near the dockyard from 156 to 1961. Lived in Fareham from 1940 to 1968!!!

"Tha meks a good door"

"If brains were dynamite,tha wun't 'ave enough to blow thee 'at off"

"Put t wood int oil"

Bushy Mick,

Are you going to....?............?I can hardly wait.
Did you go to the football match. No, I saw it on telly.
Did you hear that? What is it? Its getting louder.

Hi Ann

no Mush has been used for years, I'm 44 and boys where mushes when we where teenagers and my son who is 24 uses it still

sailors have always been known as skates as far as I can remember,

Pompey does have a slang all of its own and the different areas, Ie Portsea, buckland, somerstown have slang of their own too.

apparently dont know if this is true or an urban myth but sailors did rude things to skate fish!!!!!,

Dinlo is romany word how it came into to pompey I don't know

'Thin out for a five minute burn' was a common expression in the Royal Navy community at HMS Mercury it meant taking a quick cigarette break - I continued to use it after I left the Navy and it became common place in the office I worked in perhaps thats how expressions can spread outside of their home locality

Lorraine, those are either very local or fairly recent. I come from Fareham, worked in Portsmouth and married a sailor and the only one I recognize there was mush but it referred to face or mouth., (as in shut your mush)

lol Mick that is proper strine.......

Ah wunna watta kinna pun al mek the deh

I wonder what kind of pudding I will make today

Me marra got lifted fer oying clemmies at the spuggies

My friend got arrested for throwing stones at the birds

(North Yorkshire/Cleveland area)

Hi Alison

My father also bought the book many years ago!

(He's a pom)

I have still got it around here somewhere.

xxxxxx mick

Lorraine, do you think the term may have originated with fishermen as Skate is a type of fish I think?

Love it Mick!!

Have you read the very old book called "Let's Talk Strine"? My Dad had it years ago and it was fantastic.

Alison

my father in law and his sisters say mduck their from leicester.


My uncle from wolverhampton calls everyone R Kid.

heres some pompey speak for you all

dinlo - idiot
lairy - cheeky/rude/aggressive.
mush - man/ boy/ friend
squinny - complains a lot
skate bait - girls who went out with sailors ( my mother wouldnt let be one of those even though I wanted to be, lol)

how about---

"Yagunna goda Mairlben freester?" - Icon ardlywait."

"Jegoda the footy?" -
"Nar dingo - sorten tv."

Jeer that noise? Wodger reckna itiz? Scettin lairder."



xxxxxx mick

Thanks for the replies. My inlaws come from Burton and often refer to people as duck.

I assume "Gone for a Burton" refers to the brewery trade in Burton upon Trent.

I like "G'day" -- a feature of Australian-speak, but also Newfoundland-ese, here in Canada, and the Ottawa Valley Twang. In the Valley, it's "G'day G'day".

I lived in the Valley for a few months quite a few years ago, and started to talk like them. ;) "G'day, I'm goin to the boink" -- the place where you put money.

It's actually Irish, there being loads of Irish descendants in Newfoundland and the Ottawa Valley, and I guess Australia!

We've lived in Abington for 31 years and we like it here (we must do!). We lived in Semilong when we first married but we were pleased to move to the 'leafy glades' of Abington and we love the nearby park!