Have you heard of these sayings ?

[DUFFEMS]

Put this in your 'Palmolive'. Not on your 'Lifebuoy'.

 

I've never heard that one before and it did amuse me.

[schoolrdgal]

If I asked my Nan what was for tea she would very often reply ,

 

A run round t'able and a kick at cellar door

 

Think I got my sense of humour from her .

[Jessity]

If my mother was trying to concentrate on something and I was wittering on about something, she'd always say "Stop mithering me" - mithering with a long "i" sound to rhyme with "eye".

 

My mother in law had a sister who was really small and very thin - MIL described her as being as broad across the shoulders as a kipper is between its eyebrows.

[grinder]

If my mother was trying to concentrate on something and I was wittering on about something, she'd always say "Stop mithering me" - mithering with a long "i" sound to rhyme with "eye".

 

Would that be mythering then ?

 

How about the bow legged one "He couldn't stop a pig in an entry"

[pinkgirl]

But did you ever enjoy roast leg of liver or bread and scrape?

 

From my mum again, 'bread and scratch it'

[shanes teeth]

My Grandad used to descibe doing some pointless task or not "framing" as as like "****in' in bed weken"

[Jessity]

If my mother was trying to concentrate on something and I was wittering on about something, she'd always say "Stop mithering me" - mithering with a long "i" sound to rhyme with "eye".

 

Would that be mythering then ?

 

"

 

Pronounced as in "mythology"? The wonders of English.

 

What about "Call that hair? I've seen better hair on fourp'ny bacon"

 

And to a chatterbox child "Tha's got mo-ore rattle than a can o' mabs"

 

If you didn't put enough effort into something, my father would say "Give it some elbow grease".

[Plain Talker]

 

Pronounced as in "mythology"? The wonders of English.

 

What about "Call that hair? I've seen better hair on fourp'ny bacon"

 

And to a chatterbox child "Tha's got mo-ore rattle than a can o' mabs"

 

If you didn't put enough effort into something, my father would say "Give it some elbow grease".

 

no, Jessity, not like "mythology", it's "my" as in "my property".

 

"Mye-ther-inn"

[Jessity]

Clearly my irony got lost in transit up the M1. Look back a few posts and see what I said originally! I know how to pronounce it; I was pointing out that neither my spelling (mithering) nor Grinder's (mythering) definitely indicate the "right" pronunciation to someone who doesn't know.

Edited August 4, 2010 by Jessity

[grinder]

Hey how about

," If thi brains were gunpowder tha wunt ave enough to blow thi cap off"