Hi all, I was recently at a BBQ and got chatting to a man from Devon. He was telling me about his days of national Service in the 1950's and how he was sent up to Stoke On Trent for basic training. He was billeting with a Geordie and a Lancashire Lad and he had me amused with his recall of the expressions he learnt - especially from the Lanky lad.
He said he never understood the lanky lads meaning when he would often say "any road up" now we know what he meant but it would be confusing I suppose for a bloke who had never even heard a lanky or geordie accent until he was in his late teens.

Any road up, has anyone ever found themselves looking into a blank face after you have made some seemingly normal lanky expression?

My latest was telling a friends little girl who had bumped her knee that it would be a pigs foot in the morning. LOL - well my Mum used to say that and I really don't have a clue where it comes from - anyone know?
Bernice

The one that always gets me is ----I'll go t'foot of owr stairs----Maybe Bob Dobson could explain

A good few years ago, a mate of mine took his elderly mother (who talked proper Lanky) to the doctor's.
When the doctor, who was Indian, asked what was wrong with her, she said: 'Ah keeps hevvin' these mazey bouts'.
My mate had to translate, and explain to the doctor that she was suffering from dizzy spells.

I love to baffle my Norfolk friends with Lanky expressions,but they're just as bad with their Norfolk expressions,though I HAVE learnt a few.
I baffled my workmates in my early days at Homebase when,at the end of a shift,I said'Ah'm gooin' wom.' I had to translate into Norfolk 'I'm gern hum.'

Hi Bernice, i have my southern grandaughters in stitches everytime i open my mouth with the Lanky Sayings, they left Barrow at 14 and 7 years old they came from Ireland but by the time they left Barrow they had old Barra dialect . Regards Doris

Where's Bob Dobson when we need him? LOL he'd be a good one to ask about these lanky expressions.
Bernice

Heres one fer thee this week Ive had me lugs lowered

John EarnshawWM wrote:
[b this week Ive had me lugs lowered [/b]

Hast bin fer a pow John?

(A translation is available for non-Lanky speakers)