Gransnet today....Just my opinion.

grannyqueenie I can tell you're from the posh end of Glasgow. I'd have had a 'jilly piece'

Anya as in "Maw, see us a jeely piece"? Knighthood wasn't that posh!!

absent, no, but have heard of overweight people being described as "lard a..e".
Mardy was used a lot in Derbyshire.
"Snicket" for an alleyway anyone?

I know Snicket and ginnel from Yorkshire for alleyways

Yes we used "snicket" too. Also in Hull the "tenfoot" was used for the same thing.
Love some of those Scottish words they are so unusual like a different language.
Do you remember all the terms used for menstruation without actually saying period. One parent would ring up when her daughter returned to residential care and say " my Julie is like that there" If a male staff member answered the phone she would not tell him. Decorators in/on the rag/unwell/many more I'm sure.

In Leicestershire we have jitties and jetties!

Mardy was used by my nan from Lancashire and everyone else I knew in Derbyshire. DH says it was common in Leicestershire where he grew up.

Christinefrance, yes, the euphemisms for periods. Once told by a friend that "her Aunty had come to stay". What!

Oh yes, the periods! Having the painters in, visiting aunties, on the rag, on the blob..... Or, thankfully, for me, just "on".

I have a gay friend. DD asked if friend had a boyfriend. I said, "no, she's on the other bus"....my euph for describing someone gay.

Took ages for the penny to drop with dd.

Oh yes 'takes the other bus', 'bats for the other side', or Jimmy Carr's euphemism for lesbians 'favours the flatter shoe'. Don't know where that leaves me though - I certainly favour the flatter shoe despite being happily married for 40 years.

"Bowls from the pavilion end". That one was lost on me!

Never heard "flatter shoe" or "pavilion end"...

I quite like "lady garden" for..um..down there.

All these colloquialisms have reminded me so much of my Yorkshire and Scottish ancestry - thanks everyone.

At our St Andrews Day fish supper last week we had paper napkins with various Scottish Graces printed on them, one of which was as follows -

Doon wi' yer heid
And up wi' yer paws,
And thank the Lord
For a guid pair o' jaws


This thread has come a long way from the OP and reflects what happens in 'real life' conversations. As such it's a great example of the ability of GNers to rise above acrimony and develop harmony

Things often disappear into "Scotch Mist" here in Geordieland too trisher and we say "get outta me road" meaning "move" too gagagran.

Does anyone know where the term "Jessie" came from? As in "he's a reet Jessie" or "you look like a reet Jessie" why Jessie? Why not Beryl or Gilly?

Also where did the word "Ganzee" (sp?) come from?

My DGC have had a lady come to school in the run up to St Andrews Day, teaching them songs and poems in Scots, so we have had an outbreak of speaking Broad Scots/Doric among them and their friends. I particularly like this:

Heid n shodders, knaps n taes, knaps n taes
Heid n shodders, knaps n taes, knaps n taes
Een n lugs n mooth n neb
Heid n shodders, knaps n taes, knaps n taes

BTW the spell checker has turned every word of this RED.

I think Ganzee comes from Guernsey as in knitwear akin to a Jersey. The islands had traditional patterns for jumpers and the island name would become synonymous for the garment you were wearing.

Thank you for the explanation harrigran sounds right.

Now, any idea about "Jessie"?

Reading your "Head, shoulders, knees and toes" Granny23 I noticed the word "neb".

That's a Geordie word too for nose. As in "keep yer neb oot"

When I was at school (hundreds of years ago), occasionally we would have readings from a Scots language bible. We loved it. It was so funny hearing our very posh English headmistress going on about 'the mother putting the wean in a barrie' at the Christmas service.

I see my phone has refused to believe I said 'mither' instead of mother! Its such a posh phone (or I should preview!)

Oops and its 'pitting' not putting!

Don't know about Jessie but it was used a lot in our neighbourhood to mean a big softie boy. My mother used to tut a lot about it as her name was Jessie

There`s a little café in Kintyre called Big Jessie`s. Apparently the owner used to be an office manager in Glasgow, when he told his workmates he was leaving to open a beachside café, they called him a Big Jessie!

I've remembered another expression that my MIL would use: to say someone is "foo" when they've had too much to drink. It would always make me laugh. Where does it come from? The word, I mean. "Fool" perhaps?

This actually belongs on another thread which must remain nameless,I leave you to guess which one, but suffice it to say I should not greet were it to slide gracefully beneath the waves ? of Active Conversations, but I have been so tempted to say
"Awa' an bile yer heid !"