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Our neighbor across the yard always asked that.

 

Me mam would allus crack us up with the reply, "Qu'est-ce que yo me demandait?

 

And us kids would shout. "C'est une bonne mere".

 

Nobody got the joke?

 

An yer cuminere calling yerselves Sheffielders?

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Anyone heard the saying 'Saf braissant' or 'Sof braissant' ? This was used by an old lady when I was working on a geriatric ward at NGH over 40 years ago.

I think she meant 'Do you think I'm soft in the head?'

Have asked many people and only one person said that they'd heard something similar

Don't be soft brazened with me, my grandfather used to say it meaning don't give me any lip, don't be cheeky, don't go rolling your eyes at me, or 'slowtiming' me. That sort of thing.

 

No idea why soft though?

 

bra·zen (brzn)

adj.

1. Marked by flagrant and insolent audacity. Shameless.

tr.v. bra·zened, bra·zen·ing, bra·zens

To face or undergo with bold self-assurance: brazened out the crisis.

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Foreign muck............Chinese food.... (Ten minutes later that starvin )

 

Proper grub..............Meight an patayta pie. (It sticks to thi ribs)

 

 

PS.

Hendo's.......... Sheffield's Heavenly relish for the above......

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"Tha looks fair brussed"=Translate="Your face is a tad red due to tiredness and exhaustion". "If tha dunt shut thee gob I,ll bray thee til I carnt bray thee no more"="I am afraid if you can,t be silent I shall have to resort to fisticuffs until I can,t carry on through my strength giving out!".

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