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Post by Daviimo on Aug 26, 2009 16:15:33 GMT 1
how iz/do/be/bist ya/thee boi/boy/mon? I canna do it. iz and woz. wayout was a word that woz uzed quite a bit.
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Post by BigBadSagi on Aug 26, 2009 17:17:46 GMT 1
my mum's great auntie (99) Still a call a spade a spade lady. Bloody racists!!!
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Post by eclipsechaser on Aug 26, 2009 21:16:00 GMT 1
I thought 'ow bist' was Dawley-speak. Apparently they still drag the back of their knuckles when they walk/shuffle along !
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Post by jaytee on Aug 26, 2009 21:51:58 GMT 1
Where I was born, we went "wum". (home). "Where bist 'e off?" (Where are you going). In fact, when I moved to Wolverhampton, I had to change my accent completely, no-one could understand me. And then I met someone from Cradley Heath.....
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Post by Dale on Aug 26, 2009 21:53:29 GMT 1
'Ow bist' is a term generally used anywhere in East Shropshire and possibly the Black Country as well, my grandad is a Broseley man and I learnt that saying from him!
I dont know why but I tend to substitute 'yes' for 'arrr!' these days, I hate to admit it but I think my slang is probably heavily influenced by the many Black Country folk I worked/went to school with in Telford, and the accents between Shrewsbury and Telford folk couldnt be any more different IMO.
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Post by sgd on Aug 31, 2009 1:34:17 GMT 1
Inna Gunna dunna wanna All pure Shropshire Ya munna say dunna,it inna polite, An ya canna say wunna,cos that inna right.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2009 8:56:00 GMT 1
"Shag" Is a bird. A dance. A mate. An intimate moment. .....................anything else ? Shag pile carpet - very long pile Shag tobacco for pipe smokers
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Post by theriverside on Aug 31, 2009 9:26:10 GMT 1
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Post by pickle crew on Aug 31, 2009 11:40:44 GMT 1
tater = potato
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Post by WindsorShrew on Aug 31, 2009 11:43:57 GMT 1
There are only two sayings I have ever heard that I feel can be attributed solely to Shropshire.
Jockey is a donnington term for lad-mate.
Salop.
Everything else posted is used elsewhere imo.
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Post by gay on Aug 31, 2009 12:16:26 GMT 1
Although the title of this thread is salopian - there are lots of terms used in the east that are foreign to those in the west. The Republic of Salopia may be the biggest county in the UK without any coastline but its still a relatively small place.
In the east they say jockey lots as other posters have said. And its a Dawley thing !
Another one is "BOSTIN" - brilliant, wonderful - though that could be more of a black country thing that has filtered into Salopia from the influx of West Midland Black Country type folk into Telford
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Post by sgd on Aug 31, 2009 18:09:53 GMT 1
There are only two sayings I have ever heard that I feel can be attributed solely to Shropshire. Jockey is a donnington term for lad-mate. Salop. Everything else posted is used elsewhere imo. roite me owd butty ow about: some sayings as cowd as owd Bolas as fause as a rot suck sorrow by spoontles like a tup in auter turning on a narra adlant i binna made of sugar nor selt, i shanna melt some words cognoggers/noggins a cratcher almun jed povery/puthery clemmed klak frittened snivin clat dumbledy wrack pintle noggen-yedded tinker's news ackernin ampot peart best-hus some animals a drummill a cowt a nobby a cushy dandies ship urchin oonty and some places The Brucks Corra Ratchup Pulverton Churchton Gunnas
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Post by blum on Aug 31, 2009 20:58:10 GMT 1
There are only two sayings I have ever heard that I feel can be attributed solely to Shropshire. Jockey is a donnington term for lad-mate. Salop. Everything else posted is used elsewhere imo. Windy a lot of suvernas I have met dont have a clue when it comes to Shropshire speak, certainly none of them would ever have used (or even understood) words like shunna, wanna, canna etc. and definitley not Cowed (cold). I've also heard Jockey from people in Condover and Cantlop when referring to a mate.
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Post by WindsorShrew on Aug 31, 2009 21:01:26 GMT 1
Cheers Blum
Regarding Jockey I should have said it was widely used in Donnington when I was a lad, not specific too.
As for the others they are not localised to Salop mate, most if anything are Black Country / Sandwell and Dudley.
Thats my opinion of course, are there any books on the subject ?
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Post by shrewslander on Aug 31, 2009 21:08:43 GMT 1
If someone ask me where Rattlinghope is I really have to think, and always explain that's not the way it's said, Ratchup........welcome to Shropshire
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Post by sgd on Aug 31, 2009 21:12:56 GMT 1
If you google "Shropshire Word Book" you should come up with an online version - a first edition will cost nearly £1,000.
Candle Lane books might still have copies of a reprint that they did.
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Post by Hatfieldshrew on Sept 1, 2009 9:22:48 GMT 1
'Older - Hold of As in, get 'older tickets for the match.
Young kin, another that's old shropshire.
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Post by blum on Sept 1, 2009 10:46:38 GMT 1
I just found this on a site where dialect is discussed.. I've heard similar to this in the past when being a naughty rascal.
One of my favourite shropshire sayings was shouted at me by an old farmer as he threatened to tell my parents what I'd been doing. He followed the threat up with
"...and dunner think I wunner coz I will"
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Post by sgd on Dec 15, 2012 23:36:23 GMT 1
There are only two sayings I have ever heard that I feel can be attributed solely to Shropshire. Jockey is a donnington term for lad-mate. Salop. Everything else posted is used elsewhere imo. yo'me like a ship's yed Jockey is more black country, in Shropshire it meant a horse breaker.Butty,blade,chapper,owd cock or marrow were used when greeting someone.
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Post by thesensationaljt on Dec 16, 2012 0:23:45 GMT 1
I got greeted yesterday by, "Ow do ya buuuuuuggggeeeer, ow bist 'e?
Then again, I was on the path at the rear of Bowling Green Close.
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Post by siabod on Dec 16, 2012 0:33:13 GMT 1
My late uncle who lived most of his life in telford used to say 'surrey' quite a lot, when refering to this and that but does anyone know if this is shropshire language or not ? "Surrey" used a lot in the Acton Scott, Marshbrook, Hatton areas and to a lesser extent Church Stretton. I know this does not include a lot of people but it is a word used to express mild surprise and has been used for as long as I can remember.
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Post by thesensationaljt on Dec 16, 2012 0:41:13 GMT 1
My late uncle who lived most of his life in telford used to say 'surrey' quite a lot, when refering to this and that but does anyone know if this is shropshire language or not ? "Surrey" used a lot in the Acton Scott, Marshbrook, Hatton areas and to a lesser extent Church Stretton. I know this does not include a lot of people but it is a word used to express mild surprise and has been used for as long as I can remember. I've used it myself. Quite common around the Caaaastle.
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Post by shrewblue on Dec 16, 2012 9:51:23 GMT 1
Ow bist was commonly used by my grandfather and great grandfather and their families and they worked and lived anytwhere between Pontesbury, Minsterley, Hope Snailbeach,Hanwood, Pulverbatch and we even used it in Shrewsbury a generation or two later probably because they came into town and we mimicked/copied them...
So whilst possibly ow bist started in east Shropshire and of that I am not convinced, I guess my point is phrases/words very often are used by more and more folk as people travel for work and commerce and mix with others.
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Post by shrewblue on Dec 16, 2012 9:55:05 GMT 1
You can also add Hanwood(anud) to the places theme....my Grandada was a miner there amongst other places and he always used to say to me' have you heard lad two men burst and a boiler killed at anud"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2012 13:31:22 GMT 1
I know I do it myself and often hear "how do mon" from people in Shrewsbury whereas working in Telford I often hear mucker, jockey or mush
I always considered the how bist jockey to be Telford and people in Telford have told me its a Dawley thing, never heard it in Shrewsbury
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2012 14:11:25 GMT 1
As its Sunday i should think a few of us will be settling down to a nice piece of "ROAST BIFF". wtf.
A mate of mine who hails from Clun once described the bluntness of a knife his wife had given him to use.
" It wonna cut a hot t*** from a sow's ass." On a scale of bluntness, that knife was blunt.
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Post by atcham jack on Dec 16, 2012 16:56:15 GMT 1
my great great uncle owned collieries at anud.
greetings heard in cosford- good evening each.
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Post by atcham jack on Dec 16, 2012 17:03:39 GMT 1
clemmed- faint with hunger mithered- worried mazed -dazed
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Post by ferkle94 on Dec 16, 2012 17:54:26 GMT 1
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Post by oggwyn on Dec 16, 2012 21:31:41 GMT 1
Ow Bist Jockey is a regular greeting in Oakengates , usually shortened to Bist Jockey , dawley like to claim it as their own , but what else do you expect from a bunch of thieving inbreds .
Wut is a word used regulary around here , means Will you Please , as in "Chuck us that wut Jockey"
Older folk round here refer to hands as Donnies , and if something is about to spill its Sheeding .
A lot of the old language is disapearing due to the influx of yam yams and brummies , telfords got a lot to answer for .
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