Things our parents used to say

[alisoncc 379]

Not sure whether my parents used this or just us kids around the Medders. Also not sure whether it should be mentioned in polite company, but we always referred to a comb as a "Bug-rake". Says a lot done it.

[carni 10,094]

Yep, That's what we called a Comb as well alisoncc, only us kids, not our parents though. I do remember the real bug rakes though, nits were always around, very hard to control when i was infant school age. It seemed as soon as they cleared up, they would do the rounds again.

[alisoncc 379]

I do remember the real bug rakes though, nits were always around, very hard to control when I was infant school age. .

I remember my Mum doing my sisters hair, and everytime she found a nit she would crack it between two of her fingernails. Put it on top of one and press down with another. You could actually hear them go.

[katyjay 5,091]

Who remembers this? You are out with your friends and you look at a kid you don't know, and they say, wot yo looking at? And you'd reply, dunno, labels dropped off.

[katyjay 5,091]

Not so much what our parents said, as our grandparents generation. Someone would ask someone 'how are you doing?' and the reply inevitably would be, mustn't grumble. Do folks still say this, or did it die out with our grandparents?

[carni 10,094]

The last person i heard say that was my Grandma who died in 1996 and she used to add on the end with,

Mustn't grumble, Old age but not poverty! ( i think i might have said this before, if so, I apologise)

[DAVIDW 1,683]

Just happened on this from the Nottingham Guardian from 1895 . This is part of a series giving some Notts dialect words.

Some are familiar but many have got lost over the last 120 years . The first part of the list by Horace Walker seems to be more North Notts words . You will see a reply from a "J.P.K" adding some words from South Notts .

Favourite has to be a Banky Feather Poke for a wren and Notts folk used Axe for ask years ago .

[Rob.L 1,090]

Interesting that those clippings mention Boswell as slang for gypsy. I found one of my ancestors was a Boswell (or Bosville) who lived around Newark/South Collingham, and was by all accounts a gypsy.

Might also explain why i enjoy caravanning so much.

[DAVIDW 1,683]

Rob , you might be royalty then !

There was a Boswell who was called King Of the Gypsies .He died at Bestwood Park in 1835 and buried at Eastwood church

[darkazana 1,736]

Well we are certainly not short of gypsies in Newark!

[alisoncc 379]

Just chatting to my niece on the phone, and she commented that she had to go food shopping. I replied "going for your rations", and she replied my Mum always used to say she was going for the rations, right up to the late 1980's when she passed away. People over there still go for their rations?

[katyjay 5,091]

I'd forgotten about that saying, my mam said it too.

[Michael Booth 7,364]

My family also referred to getting the rations in. Maybe it was because food was rationed in those days and you had to use the Ration Book.

[plantfit 7,593]

get wrapped up else you'll catch your death

Rog

[Commo 1,292]

Sitting on the kerb or a stone step, I would get told that " Yow'll gerra cowd in yer kidneys."

[Compo 10,328]

You'll coppit!

[Trevor S 2,003]

#1265 -Sitting on the kerb or a stone step, I would get told that " Yow'll gerra cowd in yer kidneys."

And if you sat on the heater or radiator - "You'll get piles sitting on there!"

[Merthyr Imp 729]

Not parents, but looking at the dismal, gloomy weather this morning I was reminded of something my grandmother use to say:

'It must be one o' them dark days afore Christmas'

[Trevor S 2,003]

You Nig Nog.

[Limey 242]

Inspired by Pixie, from the "quick foods" thread:

"Stop faffing about!"

It was one of my mums common sayings!

[StephenFord 866]

Yes, faffing about was also one of my mum's favourites. It continues in our household to the present day. My daughter refers to any complicated arrangement or devious journey, conceived by me to resolve a minor problem while saving a few bob as a "Ford Faff".

[denshaw 2,871]

It's a bit black over Bills mothers.

[StephenFord 866]

Don't think I've heard that one before...

[carni 10,094]

Last night some thing my Dad always used to say just popped in to my head out of the blue for no reason, so i just Googled it.

San Fairy Ann

Does it ring any bells to any one else? If i have read it right,it seems to mean.....It Doesn't really matter.

I am not aware of hearing anyone else say this, and wondered i it was a saying from his Navy Days.

[DAVIDW 1,683]

You are right Carni and I think my dad used to say that too . Its a saying the troups brought back from France after WW1.

The French is Sans faire rien which according to this isn't grammatically correct but as you say translates as It doesn't matter .

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY/2006-01/1137425620