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If you want to sing along? Ay up mi duck, ay y got a parnd Gooin darn tarn, meet me at the Lion Vodka through a straw, I'm already pissed up I'll spray some shapes so the girls all act up Gerrup, sta

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Gerront kawzi - Please keep to the pavement.

Ayyup midduck - Good morning.

Mek it g'bakkuds - Put it in reverse.

Innit cowd - It is rather chilly today.

Arkattit - Listen to the rain.

Wotsup? - Is anything amiss?

Gerroff - Please go away.

Oo worree wee? - Who was he with?

Worree wee iz-sen? - Was he alone?

Aya masht midduck? - Have you made the tea, dear?

Gizzarfonnitt - Please share it with me.

Wiggorn ev uz dinnuz - We are about to take lunch.

Y'alluz wanna gerra susstifikut - You should always obtain a certificate.

Aya gorra weeya? - Is your wife with you?

Ghee ovver - Please desist.

Atode im eekudd pleez izzen - The decision was his.

Yowl koppitt - I fear you will be in trouble.

Gerrup yo, elsal bat yatabb - Get up, or I may use violence.

Kanni cum anorl? - May I accompany you?

Thiz summat up wee im - I fear he may be ill.

Ez ee sed owt? - Did he say anything?

Ant yer gorrote? - Didn't you get anything?

Ittle norrotcha - It is quite painless.

Yerwott? - I beg your pardon?

Gerrit dern yer - Eat up.

Ah've gone an dottied missen - I have soiled my hands.

Ayupp sorry - Hello there.

Did it fritten yer? - Were you alarmed?

Shurrup - Please be quiet.

Wottyer gerrin? - What purchases are you about to make?

Ah've podged missen - I have sufficient to eat, thank you.

Yant gorrenny woss, ayyer? - Has your condition deteriorated?

Sorl yer gerrin - That is your share.

Ah've ott missen - I am in considerable pain.

E dossent purriz ed under watter - He is afraid of swimming.

Ah don't know nowt abaht it - I am innocent.

Gizzah swag - Please may I have a drink.

Yowl gerrovver it - You will recover.

Don't knock yersen up - Do not distress yourself.

Gerroff om - Please leave us alone.

E wants sum ossmuck inniz boots - He is rather small in stature.

Gerrum yersen - Please help yourself.

Yowl kummorf wust - I fear you cannot win.

Am om - I have arrived home safely.

Ittim wiyer poss - Use your handbag for self-defence.

Ittle norrot note - It cannot harm anything.

Yer moant purrit ovver theyer - Please do not place anything there.

Izz not gooin ter wock terday - He has withdrawn his labour.

Tint woth it - It is hardly worthy of consideration.

Gizzit ere - Please pass it to me.

Will yer wacken yersen up? - It is time to arise.

Waira booza - Can you tell me where the hostelry

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Just thought I'd pop back in here after a little toaster related incident this morning, my present wife overdid her toast and I blurted out something I've not said , or heard for years, 'yuv bont it tu boggery'. Got a very strange look.

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After yesterdays fishing outing 'I'm bunt tuh buggery too'

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My daughter who lives down south rang up work to say that she'd be late in as she'd overlay. Nobody knew what she was on about.

It reminded me of the embarrassing incident when I ventured down there in my youth. I stopped an ice cream vendor in his van and said "Canna ava sucker?" The bloke was totally baffled until I pointed out what I required from his illustrated list ......"Oh you mean an ice lolly," he responded. I continued "Anna Tub" which elicited more perplexity until another pointy finger met with "you mean a carton!".

I decided after that never to stop the icecreamo again. Having spent a fortnight explaining that "mending the fire" didn't mean it was broken and "mashing the tea" didn't equate to mashing the spuds. I was glad to get om where we speak proper.

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I think I'm spending too much time on this forum.

Went to the bakery section of a large supermarket the other day, as I was preparing to barbecue some burgers and needed to put them in something.

My question of "Ayagorranycobs, duck?" met with a blank response, as if I was talking in tongues. :biggrin:

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I know what you mean RobL,when i came to West Mids i soon realized people dint know what i was saying,one of the things my hubby thought was funny was when i said to him, listen to the beds singing duck, and no one knew what babies pods were,sad to say i had to drop a lot of Notts Lingo,or Stand and explain worahweronabaaht.

Any way who would really think a Bed would sing about ducks. smile2

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A guzgog is a gooseberry. We used to say if you wanted a look, giz a gleg. Is that what you were thinking of?

Ha Ha. we said that too as kids in De Da land, Sheff. You Notters as I call you, I always thought talked posh compared to many places, take us love Ar kid, now whata mean, watter, babby,Nowt,,Wat thee on abart thar a gud en. Left handed, Dolly handed, the only place in the world that expression is used is Hillsborough. the darker side of the town, posibly comes from dolly mixtures at Bassets factory there. What great topic. love you people. best wishes. De Da Pete.

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I know what you mean RobL,when i came to West Mids i soon realized people dint know what i was saying,one of the things my hubby thought was funny was when i said to him, listen to the beds singing duck, and no one knew what babies pods were,sad to say i had to drop a lot of Notts Lingo,or Stand and explain worahweronabaaht.

Any way who would really think a Bed would sing about ducks. smile2

I had forgotten about babies pods!!

When we lived abroad I had to change so many words so that people knew what I was talking about, and what is really sad is my children wouldn't even know these now. We had bootees, not pods (they were for peas), rolls not cobs, ice lollies not suckers and probably loads more that I have forgotten. A lost culture noblue

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If you want to sing along?

Ay up mi duck, ay y got a parnd
Gooin darn tarn, meet me at the Lion
Vodka through a straw, I'm already pissed up
I'll spray some shapes so the girls all act up
Gerrup, stand up, come on! Chuck your hands up
Saturday night n' Sunday morning
I'll be dancing all night, just heed my warning
I love that lippie, lets go down t' Chippy
Feel it, fry it, I'm feeling drunk
I'll tek y' rarnd back, don't drop y' chips
Is it cowd? Y' got chapel at pegs!
I'll meet y' t'morra artside Greggs

I'm off darn tarn x 2
Lend us a parnd and jump around
Jump ararnd x 3
Jump up, jump up and get darn.
Jump [18x]

Gerrit up, Gerrit in, I can't wait to begin
Gi us that tin, ay you put out the bin
Y' lookin rough, you've had enough
boffed y' kebab on Brian Clough
Am gooin darn t' Lion in 't Market Square
I reckon there's a few lasses gooin spare
Mi cars all knackered, I can't mek it goo backard
I need to gerrit arrt, let's gi-it a clarht
Yo, I could do wi a pie, then I'll tek the twat om
See her, fat lass, keys are in the flat
Who worri wi, worree wi 'er ?
No it wer that lass from darn Goose Fair

Chorus

Nottingham's da place to be
For every lad, there's lasses three
Robbing the rich to feed the poor
Robin Hood he knew the score
Don't believe owt abhart guns n' thugs
I've got more rhymes than little Jake Bugg
Lend us a parnd or gi us a twenteh
It's a bloody Shane Meadows' documenter-eh

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Seriously, has anybody given any thought about making a series of recordings of old Nottingham language. Because when the likes of us are gone, so will be gone the language we speak. Children today all speak 'estuary English' with it's glottal stops (eg bo'ul for bottle). There's easily enough source material on these pages. The weather report in Nottinghamese was just a joke to them, and the girl didn't pronounce half the words correctly.

(edited for spelling)

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Bing, re #75, there was a BBC local radio project in 1999 called The Century Speaks where the local stations around the country, including Radio Nottingham, recorded the memories of local people talking in their own regional dialect and these were to be stored in the National Sound Archive of the British Library to form a Millenium Memory Bank, though how this is now accessed I have no idea.

The interviews were also published in book form Voices of Nottinghamshire although in this you have to be able to speak Nottinghameze to fully appreciate it!

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Born and bred in Old Radford I certainly can speak nottnm. I bet our house here in north-east Thailand is the only one for many miles around that mashes a cup of tea. And my Thai wife and kids understand "av yer mashed miduck?"

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