Have you heard of these sayings ?

[grinder]

That as much use as a Chocolate tea pot (fire guard) in our house...

[grave lurker]

'Ya dopy clot', done something wrong.

[willybite]

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

 

hiya what about my brother-in-law he has lived in america for thirty odd years and he still talks as if he's living in the park district, he is 66 now and joined the army at 18 and he still speaks the same now as he did then, his american wife of 30 years just laughs when they come over here.as for around the lump when i was young we woud say al race de round lump to settle any disputes, answer was big lump ort little lump?

Edited February 23, 2012 by willybite

[DylanOB]

i grew up in bakewell , lived in australia twenty yrs , they thought i wa odd coz i called everyone duck lol

[grave lurker]

Great one, I think it is really sad when people try to change there accent as so many do. Be who you are, not how people would like you to be. People are loved more for being themselves.

[PopT]

I remember a phrase used at home. 'It was all mi eye and Fanny Martin', which was to say something wasn't right.

 

Does anyone know who Fanny Martin was?

 

Happy Days! PopT

[spider1]

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

 

we also used to sey. WELL I,LL GO TO BACK OF OUR OUSE [that was said if somboby told you something astonoshing ] Going for a walk round lump meant. Going out for 5 minutes. SI THI LATER THEN :hihi:

[grave lurker]

Same meaning, but we would reply, ' jus goin rown bloc '. The block being the same as the lump.

[grinder]

I remember a phrase used at home. 'It was all mi eye and Fanny Martin', which was to say something wasn't right.

 

Does anyone know who Fanny Martin was?

 

Happy Days! PopT

 

As I remember it it were "Fanny Addams" .

[grave lurker]

Nothing comes up about 'Fanny Martin', But there is a tragic case about 'Fanny Adams. 'Sweet Fanny Adams' as we say.

 

Fanny Adams an 8 year old child abducted in Alton, Hampshire with the offer of sweets. She was bruitilly murdered & dismembed by her killer almost putting the rope around his neck himself, after entering in his diary a child had just been killed. With further evidence of blood on his clothes & other evidence. Her story is now well documented so anyone interested can read about it.

 

Crude jokes by sailors gave us the saying 'sweet Fanny Adams' refering to the mutton in the tin is all they got.

Edited February 26, 2012 by grave lurker
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