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Did anyone else's Dad say " I'll get washed, shaved, changed and put same on again?"

 

All the time...:hihi:

 

Remember as a "chabbie" when asking for seconds being told I'd got "hollow legs" ?

My grandfather used to call me a "Tripe-hound" but as my Dad use to say "he's always been a raight grumble guts "..

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In North-East Lincolnshire any kind of gennel is an eight-foot. A bit further west around Scunthorpe they say ten-foot (gennels must be wider there...). In Lincoln and the Midlands a gennel is a snicket.

 

If a piece of furniture were placed diagonally across a corner, my mum would say it was "Katey-cornered" which might (?) be an old Sheffield expression. In Lincolnshire they say "slosh way on"..:)

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I seem to recall that in Sheffield, one did not pick ones nose, one poked it.

 

My friends little Grandson was picking his nose the other day, his Mom yelled, stop picking your nose, he said I'm not, I'm putting it back :hihi:..true

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Hi Puffin 4

You got that right. Anyone else remember saying they were starved to death for being cold, not just for being hungry and cornish for mantlepiece.

 

Cornish was a corruption of "Cornice".

 

My grandma used to used "Starved to dee-ath" when she was cold.

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