Local dialect of sheffield

[Bushbaby]

When I had a "papper rahnd" many of my customers would come out for their "Final".

I can only assume that this refers to "Final Edition" as opposed to "City Late"

[cat631]

I think the word[ hobbies ]was used when hobnail boots were the rage, as a lad we all had our fathers or the cobbler put hobnails all round the edges and 3 rows down the middle of our boots so we could enjoy a good slide with or without snow. To-day I suppose they would be regarded as very good to kick someone lying on the ground by some lads ,Arthur.

For a good slide, we used to go slarin, to rhyme with caring.

[PopT]

Yonks ago I enquired on this posting if anyone had come across the word 'Fertle'with no result

 

It was a word we always used by my Sheffield family when they were going to look or sort out anything for you.

 

I have now found a reference on an excellent site which could be of use to others who are interested in urban slang.

 

1. Fertle

1 up, 1 down

 

 

Fertle

To fiddle with,improve, mess about with, fix, adjust.

 

Fertle...

Fertle with an engine... tune it up?...

Fertle with anything... to adjust it

Can be "search for", ie, had a damn good fertle in the shed, but couldnt find the shovel...

tags - fix - adjust - fiddle - sort out - search

 

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fertle

 

I got thinking I was wasting my time. As the old steelworkers would say, '****ting in bed wakken and shoving it art wi thi feet'

 

Happy Days!

[Puffin4]

As Children, we often used 6ft and a gassy, meaning tall (6ft and a gaslamp)

 

Do they still use okerill for a hovel?

[pinkgirl]

I work with someone who hails from Cheltenham, as well as go out with someone who hails from Middlesex (which in turn must have been bad cos they decided to shift the boundary and include it in Surrey ) and the words nesh, mither, sneck (or schneck in the case of a big nose), roaring as in to cry loudly, and many others are a complete mystery to them. The other thing they both detest, by alla ccounts, is that I say 9 while 5, for example and apparently the correct vernacular should be 9 til 5. Breadcakes/rolls are also frequently up for discussion.

 

Another word we've always used is scrawm, as in scrawming (crawling) on the floor. Laking, or ligging, for idling about. Towing, I think is Barnsley or thereabouts for going slowly or taking your time. And my bloke's favourite is still calling roads, THE Ecclesall Road, or THE Abbeydale Road, or THE London Road on the basis that it's THE road to or thru that area

 

 

Lol also use the phrase scrawming, 'ger up an stop scramming on floor'

with my children, and 'stop towing' when they are dragging back instead of

walking proper

[Yellowrose]

My grannie ,used to give me a slice of bread&butter when i was little,and she would grate a bar of chocolate on to it, she"d say,get that darn thi",thall gerra meal artnit,actually i got to like it ,and had it on and off, up to my adulthood,try it its "quaite naice".

 

My grandma used to give me bread and treacle (golden syrup)! Thanks for the fillings grandma!

[Yellowrose]

Anyone use 'apple coke' for 'apple core'? , 'gi'us tha coke!'

 

'danny' for hand.

 

We use both of these.

 

Ive always wondered where danny became hand? Just baby talk?

[Plain Talker]

For a good slide, we used to go slarin, to rhyme with caring.

 

yes, if you dragged your feet, as you walked your parent woud clout you and tell you "Stop slarin' thi feet!" I still use it, if I see a parent with a pram, and the baby has a blnket that's falling off, and draping onto the wheels I'll still tell them "Your little 'un's blanket is slaring on't wheels!"

 

 

Fertling:- pop t, we called it "furtling" in out house.

 

and scroarming/ scroming/ scrawming is another word that was used in or house frequently, as in "Stop Scroaming all o'er 't flooer"

[Puffin4]

In my childhood, scrawming was used to describe the act of shinning up a lamp post. You scrawmed up it.

[PopT]

'He could drag a cat across the canal' was an expression I use to hear in my early days in the steelworks.

 

It appears bets were taken for and against anyone who could swim naked across the Shaffield canal holding onto to a cat.

 

I never witnessed this. but I did see bets taken for swimming across the Don with all it's rubbish and pollution in those days.

 

Maybe someone could tell us more.

 

Happy Days!