Language.

[D41]

Well.....every job, every trade, has it's own language too dunnit???.....Kwacky's legal trade is the most obvious, at least to me....but if I asked you to "butter my seam" I wouldn't be surprised if I got a smack in the gob......

[D41]

Just occurred to me....& very trade specific, so you'll excuse me....we have several types of blade for carpet....the most notorious is the "Bloody Mary".....few installers use them, but I swear by them....they stay sharper, and for longer....I've never been cut yet in all my years of installing, except just once, when I suddenly decided to become right-handed.

[Mac]

I've come across the word "Poke" used for a small sack or bag -

I was thinking as I wrote my post about how many similarities I might find with UK English and Appalachian English, as the vast majority of settlers here are of UK decent. Fireblade Ro's comment of breakfast-dinner-supper is one, for example.

[Kwacky]

The Black Country is about 12 miles from me. When one of those buggers is at full chat I'm lost.

You know you're in trouble when the opening line tends to be something like "ow bin ya cock?" The reply is supposed to be "ar, i've bin sowund"

By all accounts it's an old Anglo dialect.

This link has a decent list of black country words http://www.sedgleymanor.com/dictionaries/dialect.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[C00kiemonster]

The Black Country is about 12 miles from me. When one of those buggers is at full chat I'm lost.

You know you're in trouble when the opening line tends to be something like "ow bin ya cock?" The reply is supposed to be "ar, i've bin sowund"

By all accounts it's an old Anglo dialect.

This link has a decent list of black country words http://www.sedgleymanor.com/dictionaries/dialect.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

We are special that's for sure

I'm all for borders and passport from Brum to Black Country

[Kwacky]

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I'm all for borders and passport from Brum to Black Country [/quote]

Simply ask the Yammers to read and sign something if they want to pass the border. That should stop them.

[Perkles]

yams yams gotta love them,bless

[Kwacky]

The problem with that is you end up marring one of them

[Monty]

Fireblade Ro's comment of breakfast-dinner-supper is one, for example.

The dinner as apposed to lunch comes from School Dinner ladies. School dinners were introduced to give poor kids a proper meal, as in the main sometimes only meal of the day. So it became Dinner but at Lunch time.

[R34PER]

I've only heard the term "slats" in the RAF. Slats are an aerodynamic edge on the leading edge of an aircraft wing. Usually going hand in hand with flaps on the trailing edge, so you have flaps and slats.

If you don't have any flaps in your pants, you must have slats.

A kick in the slats.


(I don't know if that's the correct explanation, it's just what I figured as I've only heard it used in the world of aviation!)
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I have always referred to the individual Slats in window blinds and the like, I was unaware of the aviation term, both are correct though, with a slat being a long thin piece of material.

[Blade]

I used the term bog roll the other day.
The missus and the kids wet themselves laughing, appropriately!

bog roll is standard issue in our house

[Blade]

Barm cake = Bread roll

[Deegee]

Barm cake = Bread roll

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I'm working at our depot just outside Barnsley (S.Yorkshire for non Brits) at the moment, if I go 2 miles one way it's a barm cake, 2 miles the other way it's a tea cake, if I'm at home in Essex it's a bap. Oh and a tea cake has got currants and sultanas in it and a sugar glaze on top at home as well.