Have you heard of these sayings ?

[wackyjaki]

Shunt that be Chowint fat ....

 

A wer a bit thin as a kid, abart five stoo-un wet through, and me grandad used to say he'd seen more fat on a chip..

 

i guess so

[grinder]

i guess so

 

It 's funny how hard it is to write dialect in English.

I suppose by rights the nearest you could get to the proper sound would be CHOWE-INT FAT ....

 

"Chowin "t" fat" never sounds right, Usually we use the "T"on its own for TO THE, like going t town

THE is usualy a tact on "T", as in being "int" town, not in t town and Chowing the fat is just posh Sheffield talk..

Edited June 24, 2010 by grinder

[DUFFEMS]

shesezitintisburraberritis (She says it isn't his but, I bet it is).

 

Many years ago my mother's friend who was head of an Attercliffe school related a story of when the school nurse came to examine the pupils. One child didn't understand the request, "Open your mouth and put out your tongue" which bemused the child whereupon the child's mother approached the child and said, "Oppen thi gob an' stick thi lolly licker aht", it worked!

[teamcuba]

Wow! Haven't used that word in years! We used to refer this to Mackenzie Crescent in Burncross

[teamcuba]

( referring to "lump" )

[grinder]

"Docker".

 

It's a name I seem to have heard when a kid. people used to say they played on the Docker ..

Sounds like a field some where in Sheffield, what was it, where was it and is there more than one ?

[rubydazzler]

"Docker".

 

It's a name I seem to have heard when a kid. people used to say they played on the Docker ..

Sounds like a field some where in Sheffield, what was it, where was it and is there more than one ?

Pronounced 'ont docka'. It's still there. It's a grassy/wooded area just off Carfield Road at Heeley Green. Girls weren't allowed to go there in the old day . There's some memories of it on one of the other Sheffield History threads.

[grinder]

Rubydazzler

Any idea if it's the only one in Sheffield or why it was called that ?

[rubydazzler]

Rubydazzler Any idea if it's the only one in Sheffield or why it was called that ?

It's the only one I've ever heard of, grinder, but have no idea how or why it got the name. I'm not even sure if 'Docker' would be the correct spelling As we say 'Brocker Bank' instead of 'Brocco'? It might really be the Docco

 

In my later years I always wondered whether it was some Norse/Viking derivation of a place name?

[DUFFEMS]

Rubydazzler

Any idea if it's the only one in Sheffield or why it was called that ?

 

T'Docker was a mound of shale like material which was heaped up to the left hand side of Carfield Road opposite Hides & Spears, I believe it was from the brick works but, I could be wrong. When we were kids we used to slide down it on tin trays but, we used to get really scruffy so it was no good lying to your mum about where you'd been.

The Docker was built on many years ago, there are several semis there now.