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People have said to Mrs MW 'it's a different kettle of fish'. My Spanish isn't good enough to provide a literal translation, so it becomes 'demaciado diferente'.

My maternal grandmother - another daughter of Hull born pre-1900 - lived with us for a while when I was growing up. She used to say to me 'will ye come and sit again me?' - come and sit next to me. She also used the word 'blackcorran' for blackcurrants.
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mapperleywhite wrote:People have said to Mrs MW 'it's a different kettle of fish'. My Spanish isn't good enough to provide a literal translation, so it becomes 'demaciado diferente'.

My maternal grandmother - another daughter of Hull born pre-1900 - lived with us for a while when I was growing up. She used to say to me 'will ye come and sit again me?' - come and sit next to me. She also used the word 'blackcorran' for blackcurrants.
MW, I may be wrong but wasn't it 'come and sit agin me'?
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Back in North Yorkshire we used to call bed sheets, appin :roll: a cut through between houses was a snicket & beer was yal.
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Back in the early 70s when I was a child in Dewbury/Batley area there were a couple of words used there which might have been slang but I do remember being told they were dialect which descended from Norse, these wouldnt be in national use, probably not in use much outside my local area, and I doubt very much they have been used for years, anybody ever heard of these

Laikin - meaning playing, as in 'is Johnny laikin out after school'
Agate - meaning, was doing then showing what the person was doing, as in 'he was agate (actions scratching his nose etc)'

As I say, could have been local slang, but would be interested to know if not
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I've definitely heard 'lakin' for playing. I feel as though it's an East Yorkshire thing - when I used to go to my nana's caravan in Withernsea in the late 80s the kids there used to say it. There's a heavy Norse influence on place names (anywhere ending in 'by' e.g. Selby) over that way, so you could be right about some of the vocab too.
Another one my grandad used to say say was 'clobber', as in 'get your clobber on', meaning clothes, or just sometimes meaning get your stuff.
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We used to say larkin ( as in The Darling Buds of May :D ) we once got lost on the outskirts of Barnsley & I jumped out of the car to ask a chap directions & honesty I couldn’t understand a word he said much to my wife’s amusement. When I go to the cricket I often bump into a couple of Barnsley guys ( usually in the pub ;) ) & I really have to concentrate when they are talking.
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