Have you heard of these sayings ?

[chimay]

Sheffield is built on severn hills(as is Rome)hence the word lump,

as the housing estate spread allover the hillsides,

the term going to walk around t'lump means to walk up and down the hills on which your estate was built and then came to mean going for a walk t'round area in which you live.

In my dads case down t'pub and back on sundays before his sunday dinner.

Funny how the dog allways got home an hour before he did,

he used to say he's got four legs I've only two so he can walk twice as fast.

 

I didn't live on an estate and as I remember it my lumps were pretty flat. I think the word lump goes back further than housing estates.

[Rivelin6]

My Dad said it to me today and I used it for the first time in ages the other day- it even surprised me when I said it.

[rubydazzler]

You'd subconsciously absorbed the vibes from this thread, Rivelin6. I keep finding myself saying the old phrases without even realising it. It's only when either a smile of recognition or a look (gone out) of total incomprehension spreads over a face, that I realise what I've said!

[Rivelin6]

You'd subconsciously absorbed the vibes from this thread, Rivelin6. I keep finding myself saying the old phrases without even realising it. It's only when either a smile of recognition or a look (gone out) of total incomprehension spreads over a face, that I realise what I've said!

Looks like I did.

[ODACSwimmer]

Yep - still used in our family

[Treatment]

I still use it, and I've not lived in Sheffield since the 1970's.

 

Apparently the one word that gives us away to Southerners is the word Chuff.

[spiritangel1]

i think the sheffield dialect is brilliant,my hubbys american an is always laffing at some of the things we say,he nearly died the first time a bus driver called him love i could write a book!!!he loves our accent and when i go over to see his family i have to slow my speech down and think what im sayin as they sometimes look at me gone out and havent a clue what im on about lol

[davebrmm]

Yes we used the round the block too....but round the lump seems a strange word to use...wonder where it originated from

 

we used to go round tlump and round watterside

[davebrmm]

what about what thaa pyking at or no pykin

[Treatment]

what about what thaa pyking at or no pykin

 

. . . and nebbing.