poynton blue Posted 19 June 2008 Posted 19 June 2008 i remember that from my uni days. in manchester they call them muffins. Its a Barm in Manchester m"duck
poynton blue Posted 19 June 2008 Posted 19 June 2008 Its a cob in Leic Notts Derbys As soon as you cross the A5 ie Nuneaton its a batch other Leic words croggie (to give some-one a lift on your bike) i think its unique to Leic knock door run (in London its knock down ginger ffs!!!) regards from beautiful sunny Cheshire
poynton blue Posted 19 June 2008 Posted 19 June 2008 Us Ketteriners say it What croggie??? Kettering is a Market Harborough over-spill anyway
Alexikokopops Posted 19 June 2008 Posted 19 June 2008 Its a cob in Leic Notts DerbysAs soon as you cross the A5 ie Nuneaton its a batch other Leic words croggie (to give some-one a lift on your bike) i think its unique to Leic knock door run (in London its knock down ginger ffs!!!) regards from beautiful sunny Cheshire We say croggie in Lincolnshire
poynton blue Posted 19 June 2008 Posted 19 June 2008 We say croggie in Lincolnshire As the man with the orthapidict shoe said " I stand corrected "
samingram_uk Posted 19 June 2008 Posted 19 June 2008 What croggie???Kettering is a Market Harborough over-spill anyway I some how dont think so
poynton blue Posted 19 June 2008 Posted 19 June 2008 I some how dont think so Only having a giraffe,its a Corby over-spill town
Webbo Posted 19 June 2008 Posted 19 June 2008 What croggie???Kettering is a Market Harborough over-spill anyway Croggies is also when you've got your fingers crossed, like so.
Guest Posted 19 June 2008 Posted 19 June 2008 SF didn't have a clue when I once told him someone we knew was bobbing themselves.
ozleicester Posted 20 June 2008 Posted 20 June 2008 Us Ketteriners say it must be true... i say "it" all the time
StroudFox Posted 23 June 2008 Posted 23 June 2008 Yeah I remember using the word Mardy at uni and my friend from Essex didn't have a clue what I meant. Cob is a funny one. Hardly anyone knows that it means bread roll but to me a roll is like a finger roll. I always say Ta instead of Thanks. Leicester people do have accents, I never thought we did till I went to Uni and left the good old County of Leicestershire. My friend kept taking the mickey about how a said pastuh, Lestuh etc. Now when I hear people from Leicester talk on the radio or TV it stands out a mile! Another one that is very much regional based are plimsolls. (As a teacher it is a common word). When i was growing up it was plimsolls, In Worcester they were pumps (the first time I heard someone say get your pumps to a child I thought WTF!). In Swindon they are called Daps!! I love dialects and accents, find it very interesting. I never realised how often my dad said Me'Duck until a friend pointed it out to me. Now I notice it all the time!
Ashley Posted 23 June 2008 Posted 23 June 2008 Mondeh Tuesdeh Wednesdee Thursdeh Frideh Satdeh sundeh Ashleeeh
Sparky Posted 23 June 2008 Posted 23 June 2008 I always get abused for speaking Lestah . Surely note wrong with a bit of Lestah surely
Corky Posted 23 June 2008 Posted 23 June 2008 I've spent several years since leaving Leicester teaching 'mardy' to the whole of East Anglia. 'Having a cob on' too. Sometime (probably about the time I was in Leicester) I picked up the expression 'wang', as in "Wang (throw) it over 'ere." I've received many a strange look for saying it - is it a Leicester-ism? I'm not surprised
Finnegan Posted 23 June 2008 Posted 23 June 2008 I always get abused for speaking Lestah . Surely note wrong with a bit of Lestah surely Hahahah. Nothing better than mouthing off a load of "Lestah" to a bunch of confused, middle-class, Southern art students on your campus at uni. The strange stares and quips of "... aren't you Welsh?" just made it all the more priceless.
Finnegan Posted 23 June 2008 Posted 23 June 2008 Do you go cherry door knocking in Leicester? I think we called it bobby knocking in school. Or just knock-door-run. I can't remember.
poynton blue Posted 24 June 2008 Posted 24 June 2008 I think we called it bobby knocking in school. Or just knock-door-run. I can't remember. just knock door run!!! Another one, Alley way, in Leic they say Jitty up here in Cheshire/Manc land they say Ginnel
General Smuts Posted 24 June 2008 Posted 24 June 2008 I went down to London and asked for a ham cob and she looked at me weird. I didn't quite understand why? I get this all the time in Herts. My missus orders my cobs now, i jst dont understand what im trying to order. I ask for a sausage roll and they give me a sausage roll (pastry thing) not a frigging sausage cob. Stupid southerners.
Moreton Posted 24 June 2008 Author Posted 24 June 2008 The city which gave us Gary Lineker, Engelbert Humperdink and Sir Richard Attenborough, is officially the birthplace of modern standard EnglishBut Leicester's contribution was just as dramatic in its time, without the benefit of mass media. The city should therefore be proud of its influential roots. Shakespeare's sonnets would have sounded very different without it. Very Proud
OriginalRobboFOX Posted 24 June 2008 Posted 24 June 2008 Ha! My grandad used to say ''its black over bills mothers'' to mean it was gonna rain...
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