Courtenay wrote:Never heard of "jamp", but the usual one with kids in Australia is "brang" instead of "brought". As in the time I once heard of when a boy, for show and tell, declared "I bringed a new book to school." "Now class," said the teacher, "what word should Johnny have used there?" And the entire class chorused, "Brang!!"
In Birmingham its more often 'brung' as in 'I brung my mom along'
In Birmingham many (usually older) people use the phrase 'behopes' - maybe a short form of 'best hope' as in 'best hope it doesn't rain - 'behopes it don't rain'
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
My grandparents, who were from Stourport-on-Severn (20 miles from Birmingham), always said ockard for awkward when describing someone who was being difficult.
'Go down to the side-shows by the river this afternoon. I'll meet you somewhere in disguise. Bet you won't know me!' wrote Fatty.
We say that sometimes as well. As far as I know we've no connections with 'Up North'. I assumed it was just a fun thing. Maybe someone in my family heard someone else say it, and thought it fun it use sometimes. We don't use the word as standard.
Eddie Muir wrote:My grandparents, who were from Stourport-on-Severn (20 miles from Birmingham), always said ockard for awkward when describing someone who was being difficult.
"It's the ash! It's falling!" yelled Julian, almost startling Dick out of his wits...
"Listen to its terrible groans and creaks!" yelled Julian, almost beside himself with impatience.
Eddie Muir wrote:My grandparents, who were from Stourport-on-Severn (20 miles from Birmingham), always said ockard for awkward when describing someone who was being difficult.
I'm very used to 'ockard' but that's bostin.
I thought Bostin was in Lincolnshire (or maybe Massachusetts)??
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Bostin is very 'black country' lol. Hardly ever hear it in Birmingham...and 'ockard' is something I've heard but not widely - I think that might be more Worcestershire.
In Birmingham we say 'ta-raa' instead of 'goodbye' - and an aqueduct is an 'akkaduct' (though I never say that but many do!) and some people like to sit in their 'gardin'
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
They say 'ta-ra' in Wales too, only if it's said in welsh you'd lose the first 'a' and just say 'tra'
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IceMaiden wrote:They say 'ta-ra' in Wales too, only if it's said in welsh you'd lose the first 'a' and just say 'tra'
Yes - I remember my aunt saying 'tra' and my uncle still does. My dad never learned much Welsh as he wasn't 'allowed' to be taught it at school because he was only second-generation Welsh, but he is very good at pronouncing place-names! He's always moaning about the way Brummies talk even though he's lived here for nearly sixty years!
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
Can he pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch??
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
Rob Houghton wrote:Bostin is very 'black country' lol. Hardly ever hear it in Birmingham...and 'ockard' is something I've heard but not widely - I think that might be more Worcestershire.
In Birmingham we say 'ta-raa' instead of 'goodbye' - and an aqueduct is an 'akkaduct' (though I never say that but many do!) and some people like to sit in their 'gardin'
Ockard is definitely heard around South Staffs and the Black Country and Bostin is very much the same spending plenty of my time there. It bay derived from the Anglo-Saxon 'bosten', meaning 'something to boast about'.
Yown got an oss?
It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
Ah, well, I haven't had much to do with My Little Pony since wanting one at the age of 6 or so and never getting one. I did have She-Ra and Swift Wind, though.
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
