Leicester slang

[spacemunky]

Chillsh*t

[Chiltern Fox]

Not strictly slang, but we used to call the local shopping centre in loughborough the 'precinct'. Ain't heard it anywhere else.

[Finnaldo]

On 27/01/2020 at 00:48, Realjimbo said:

I'm with you sir shep, but where does it originate?

I'm sure that because Leicester was so isolated in ancient times - ie so far from the coast and foreign invaders - that we have kept a lot of very old dialect words, sadly dying out year by year.

Only just seen this, but it’s actually the total opposite. 
 

When the Vikings invaded the old Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, they took what was known as the Five Boroughs of Danelaw: Lincoln, Stamford, Nottingham, Derby and Leicester, in addition to the already existing Viking Kingdom of York to the North. 
 

You’ll notice that this area of England has templates of place names you won’t find elsewhere, ‘-thorpe’ is one in particular, which comes from the Old Norse for Farms or Settlement or something along those lines. 
 

A lot of East Midland and Yorkshire slang is attributed to Old Norse as well. So rather, its external factors that made our slang stand out rather than preserving internal ones.

[Dahnsouff]

On 26/01/2020 at 09:42, String fellow said:

'Bert' meaning 'but'. 'Corky dobber' meaning left-handed. 

My old man is left handed (the selfish, non golf club sharing tw@t - love you Dad), and he always said it was "corky dabbler" 

[SemperEadem]

8 hours ago, Chiltern Fox said:

Not strictly slang, but we used to call the local shopping centre in loughborough the 'precinct'. Ain't heard it anywhere else.

Pretty sure that is universal. 

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