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Has this been done before?........
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:04 pm
by blondie95
The wierd and wonderful words and language that CH pupils seemed to create and that no on in the outside world had any idea about, my favourite 'allow it'
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:03 pm
by UserRequestedRemoval
The thing is, the same is true for every region of the country.
In the area of North London I grew up in bang meant either fight or sex. More often than not it was used to refer to sex.
When I moved to Burnley, I had an argument with my step-daughter and she told me she was going to bang me.............My jaw hit the floor and it took my then new wife to explain that up here it means punch!!!!!
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:03 am
by Great Plum
My favourite was baffed
I don't recall bocker being used anywhere else...
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:27 pm
by Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)
Great Plum wrote:My favourite was baffed
I don't recall bocker being used anywhere else...
well you wouldn't because you weren't somewhere else...
didn't "they" bring out a dictionary of CH terms that no one recognised, sometime in the mid-90s?
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:37 pm
by jhopgood
Ruthie-Baby wrote:Great Plum wrote:My favourite was baffed
I don't recall bocker being used anywhere else...
well you wouldn't because you weren't somewhere else...
didn't "they" bring out a dictionary of CH terms that no one recognised, sometime in the mid-90s?
I have a copy of the Dictionary of Housey Slang, printed mid 60's I believe. Based on something from the beginning of the century.
Must have it somewhere. Then I can check up on bockers, which I had forgotten all about until it occurred here
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:38 pm
by Great Plum
Yes, I think the book of Housey Slang was mostly made of phrases from London!
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:54 pm
by peter2095
Is baffed not a real word then? I still use it to this day
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:01 pm
by Great Plum
According to my dictionary swallowing Scrabble and Countdown champion friend, to 'baff' is to bounce a golf ball!
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:21 pm
by Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)
Great Plum wrote:According to my dictionary swallowing Scrabble and Countdown champion friend, to 'baff' is to bounce a golf ball!
only you would have a friend like that... or is it really you in disguise???
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:48 pm
by Great Plum
No, he is real...
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:49 pm
by Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)
are you not then Matt?
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:54 pm
by Great Plum
I am a figment of people's imagination...
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:55 pm
by Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)
Great Plum wrote:I am a figment of people's imagination...
that's what I thought... no I didn't. how did we get here? I'm all confused. I know, I thought your friend was a figment...
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:21 pm
by Deb GP
I think everyone has a secret friend who's good at scrabble. We've got friends who we don't have dinner with now because it all got a little too serious.....
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:37 pm
by DavebytheSea
Deb GP wrote:I think everyone has a secret friend who's good at scrabble. We've got friends who we don't have dinner with now because it all got a little too serious.....
What did? the dinner?