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You know you're getting old when....and assorted musings!!!

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Egluntyne Eggsistentialist

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I can't understand the Hull accent at all. I met someone from 'ool' ('oo' as in look) once and she had to tell me where she came from at least 4 times and I still couldn't understand! It's remained a joke amongst us 25 years later!

 

The South Yorkshire accent takes a bit of getting used to.

 

It is very different to the rest of Yorkshire. Him Indoors comes from York and sounds nothing like.

 

They are known as "Dee Dahs" ....which is essentially thee and thou.

 

Mind you I can't be too critical about accents as I have a Manchester accent and Him Indoors says I sound like Bernard Manning! :roll:

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I find accents interesting anyway, but on here it's really enlightening because accents don't come over in the written word.

 

I speak Queen's English of course! :wink: I'm from Surrey :D:D

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I find accents interesting anyway, but on here it's really enlightening because accents don't come over in the written word.

 

I speak Queen's English of course! :wink: I'm from Surrey :D:D

 

They can do.

I have friends who type aye instead of yes and so on.

I've just bought a rabbit hutch froma broad norfolk lad. When he was emailing he added 'ed' to a lot of his words. As in he gave me hid number in case my huband got losted.

I too speak the Queens English naturally. My Gran used to complain that I spoke with a Loo-on accent which of course noone else said.

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I have a couch in the living room.

 

I have breakfast, lunch and dinner (and supper is usually a bottle of wine

 

:wink: )

 

Both the bathroom and shower room are called the toilet - upstairs toilet and downstairs toilet :roll:

 

Round here some of the older folk call their hall the lobby, and their kitchen the scullery :? . My dad used to call the toilet the shunky - don't know where he got that from and apologies if its something rude I don't know about!

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Looney Effusive Egg Layer

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The thing in the bathroom is either a loo or a bog...more often than not it's called the bog!

 

I have an a*se or a backside - very rarely a bum or a bottom :oops::lol:

 

If I had children however I would probably have to have a major rethink about my choice of terminology! :lol:

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Egluntyne Eggsistentialist

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The thing in the bathroom is either a loo or a bog...more often than not it's called the bog!

 

I have an a*se or a backside - very rarely a bum or a bottom :oops::lol:

 

If I had children however I would probably have to have a major rethink about my choice of terminology! :lol:

 

When you have teenagers.....it's an a*se! :roll:

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The Dogmother Eggsistentialist

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OK, exposing myself to ridicule here...

 

We have a sofa in the living room, plus various chairs.

An upstairs and downstairs loo.

We eat breakfast, lunch and dinner

Rosie (she will kill me for this) has front and back bottoms :lol::lol:8)

She wears knickers, not telling what I wear :oops:

Scone rhymes with gone

 

Round here, they add 'I did' the sentences, as in 'I went into town, I did'

 

Posh? Me? I've been called worse! :roll:

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Sorry Bron....I'm not getting that! :oops::lol:

 

scone spelt 's gone! The fastest cake's gone.

 

This is very hard to put into words. Are you understanding me? Try saying 'It's gone' really quickly and you might get it.

 

I always understood that scone (as in gone) was Scottish and scone (as in phone) is English. But isn't the Scottish seat thing a scone (as in scoon)?

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Sorry Louise and Fee, I didn't mean to be rude about your throne. Reading back, it seemed a bit dismissive. I'm gald I was right about the pronunciation though. :) Strange you should eat a scon then!

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craftyhunnypie Chuckling Chook

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In our house we call scone as in stone

We have 2 loos

toilet habits are wees & dumps

Underwear is knickers - even hubby calls his boxers knickers! :shock:

 

Claret - Rosie is not alone calling it front & back bum. I did the same when I was little & my sister called her front bum....a lucy!!!!!????

 

We also say lickle (little) & keckle (kettle) in our house - due to hubby being a Lancashire lad.

 

We used to call sweets - GROTS!

& we used to call stew.....tayter ash!

 

Emma.x

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Jules. Eggcentric Egluowner

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My dad used to be a milkman, & said the fastest milk was pateurised (geddit- past your eyes?) *groans*

 

Back to the "you know you are old theme" I have just filled in an online survey where you have to scroll down for your date of birth- it takes a long time to get to 1972 :oops::roll:

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