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Dialects, Accents and Poverty Stricken.

By RonnieTodger, in General Chat

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don_danbury

don_danbury

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2 minutes ago, Speedwell 🦊 said:

I’m Leicester born and bred and have never used the phrase “Me Duck”

Its not a originally a Leicester phrase.

more Nottingham/South Yorkshire.

i used to hear it in leicester a few times as a kid, mainly used by old grannies tho. i always thought it was something old women said lol 

lebleu

lebleu

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Earlier posts in this thread mentioned costs of raw materials going up. This legit could be a problem. Hope not though. Need some rumors to wet the appetite 

Speedwell 🦊

Speedwell 🦊

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6 minutes ago, don_danbury said:

i used to hear it in leicester a few times as a kid, mainly used by old grannies tho. i always thought it was something old women said lol 

I’m 51 and I never heard my grannies say it,but I’m not saying your wrong.

davieG

davieG

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The only place i ever heard it and was a long time ago was down the Market.

 

You don't get many of them for a pound m'duck

Speedwell 🦊

Speedwell 🦊

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4 minutes ago, davieG said:

The only place i ever heard it and was a long time ago was down the Market.

 

You don't get many of them for a pound m'duck

I stand corrected.It’s actually a Derby Phrase.

Lesta Legend

Lesta Legend

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23 minutes ago, Speedwell 🦊 said:

I’m Leicester born and bred and have never used the phrase “Me Duck”

Its not a originally a Leicester phrase.

more Nottingham/South Yorkshire.

It’s very much an East Midlands colloquial saying and including Leicester. 
 

Your not likely to hear it much nowadays especially amongst anyone under the age of 40/50 and outside of the more multi cultural inner city areas. 
 

Can’t say I’ve ever used it outside of a sarcastic setting. 

WarehamFox

WarehamFox

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34 minutes ago, TrentFox said:

There really is feck all to read in this thread. 😞. Maybe lock it  down until something is actually announced? 

Agree, this thread has gone way off subject. What's with the frog and me duck thing? 

Vlad the Fox

Vlad the Fox

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Just to get things back on track.

 

I remember when I was a kid, the owner of our local mace was a real Leicester bloke, me’duck this, my darlin that, yes love. 
 

Anyway, we used to have a baker who would come and deliver our bread at the weekend. One Saturday he came slightly irate, moaning about the man at the mace, reckoned he was coming on to him and was going to lamp him if he did it again. My mum had to explain to him and calm down that’s that how he spoke to everyone.

 

The chap from the mace, John, was a lovely fellow though, and a huge Leicester fan. Him and my mum would always have long chats about the City. He’d have loved to see what the club has become and would whole heartedly be behind the stadium expansion, hotel and arena. 

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Steve Earle

Steve Earle

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15 hours ago, Speedwell 🦊 said:

I’m Leicester born and bred and have never used the phrase “Me Duck”

Its not a originally a Leicester phrase.

more Nottingham/South Yorkshire.

My comment was aimed at 'annoying accents'...I'm sorry but the Leicester accent is for me a shocker.

 

Unlike you Speedy, I'm not born and bred but both parents were, all my extended family still live there, and I went to infant school there. And yet that accent grates more than most!

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Speedwell 🦊

Speedwell 🦊

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8 hours ago, Steve Earle said:

My comment was aimed at 'annoying accents'...I'm sorry but the Leicester accent is for me a shocker.

 

Unlike you Speedy, I'm not born and bred but both parents were, all my extended family still live there, and I went to infant school there. And yet that accent grates more than most!

I know what you’re saying.The Leicester accent isn’t great I admit.
infact it can sound quite chavvy without offending anyone.

but then again I think all East Midlands accents don’t sound that good.

but Brummie is by far the worst IMO.

 

Plastik Man

Plastik Man

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22 hours ago, peach0000 said:

I’ve genuinely never seen that before but that was amazing. Felt a little sorry for Kelechi. Proper threw him in in the deep end there!

He did seem bemused at times, but it is a brilliant. How can anyone not like Kelechi? By now he must be fluent in Lestoh!

BoyJones

BoyJones

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On 03/06/2021 at 12:29, dynamark said:

My  son lived in a lovely new block just of Broad St Brum ,tramps sleeping in the doorway and regular car break ins sometimes just to sleep in the car ,and that was the good area.

Between 2002-7 I worked just off the Five Ways Roundabout area, every which way into Birmingham is a dishearteningly rundown. The place is the pits. Parts of Edgbaston / Bourneville try to look nice, but even they’re going downhill. 
 

Then worked next eight years before retirement just north of the Victoria Centre on the Mansfield Road, Nottingham. At least they do have Edwalton, otherwise another depressing place to visit. Leicester has its road issues and obviously some uncared for areas, but at least it feels like a city and is gradually upgrading its infrastructure. 

lebleu

lebleu

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36 minutes ago, Heathrow fox said:

Price of building materials have hit their highest since 1997.I’m guessing inflations been factored in obs 

Buy the dip

LestaAl

LestaAl

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Now that we are past 100 pages with no or little real news I suggest we close the thread and open another one ……..

 

Stadium expansion 2-real news

 

…..and await developments from the club…, hopefully the wait will not be too long.

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