Gransnet today....Just my opinion.

Peely wally, glaikit, scotch mist, tumshie, numpty, besom, skite all regularly feature in my vocabulary. I'm sure I could use them all in the same sentence if I put my mind to it.

Glaikit is often paired with gomeril, as in "Whit a glaikit gomeril yon lassie at the co-op is!" (a gomeril is a glaikit person)

'Wabbit' describes that tired and washed-out feeling that creeps up on us occasionally!
When we did something daft mum would call us 'tumshie-skull' !!

The sister of one of my best friends at school was called a glaikit besom by her mother once after she emptied the dustbin onto the patio to look for something her mum had thrown out after a warning.

The mum came from Paisley.

I use peely-wally quite a lot because that's how I like my tea.

Does anyone know where Carol Kirkwood is from? She pronounces some words, such as England, differently to other Scots people I know.

Has anybody said "peely wally" yet? (Wally to rhyme with pally not wolly)

Not jacket!- hacket. Phone won't believe I mean to type that and keeps trying to change it. Obviously these Scots words are not in its vocabulary. They are now!

Ooh yes. I'd say glaikit (not very bright) in, if not daily then at least weekly, use! There's also dippit (a bit daft) mauket(dirty). Not to mention jacket (rough looking esp female). None of those being exactly complimentary!!

Jane do you remember the word glaikit? Not sure of the spelling now. I also remember Scotch mist used in the context described. I also was familiar with the word press as in cupboard.

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Talking about where we were born in my Lancashire secondary school class one day, I put on my best Yorkshire accent to tell my Aberdonian form mistress that "Ah coom frae Pu'sey whier watter flows up t'ill and dooks flt backards to kape mook art o' their een".

She said, in her lovely Aberdeen accent: "Wd you kindly speak Englesh". The first E of English was pronounced like the e in met.

My mother used to say "Scotch mist or Irish fog".

We used Scotch mist here in the very north of England but it is a long time since I have heard it used.

My Mum who was born in Lancashire and lived in Stoke, Derby and Leicester, called it brakefast but she probably thought it was posher to say it that way.

Some people up here in Scotland also say 'brakefast'. My DD came home from primary school one day and said 'my teacher says brakefast instead of breakfast.' I asked why they were talking about that meal and she told me ' he said my jotter was a right dog's brakefast!'
I've never let her forget it.

Further to the subject of "watter", there is an area here called The Wicker - known as "T'Wicker, weer't watter runs o'er't weir"! Spit the bones out of that one!

"How do" is a Yorkshire expression and I was surprised to hear that we say "brakefast". I"vet never heard that. All my life it has been "brekkfast".

I think "How do" is Yorkshire too Gk - my Dad used to say it to anyone he met outside, if he knew them.

Another one is "get out of me road" meaning "move!"

Scotch mist is an expression I remember as well, used as you say trisher.
My parents sent me to elocution classes so I would not grow up with a Northern accent which they thought was not 'ladylike '
I do get annoyed when people equate a northern accent with someone not being very intelligent. I took issue with the BBC over this as Tim Wonnacott on Bargain Hunt was often very patronising in this way.

I don't know where my neighbour (in London) is originally from, but when I walk past and he is working outside, he always says "How do?" I love that. I want to reply "Like this" and do a little dance

Brake fast is pure Yorkshire and includes the long "a" sound- a word with a short "a' sound is watter (water)
My mother worked desperately to rid me of any Yorkshire accent and illustrated that one with the rhyme
"What's the matter?
Pigs in watter?
Did anyone else have the term Scotch Mist used for lost things which my mother found when I couldn't "What's this? Scotch Mist?"
Scotch Mist was also a term for light drizzle and fog.

My DH is Yorkshire born and bred, so I know most of the old Yorkshire sayings above. He used to say brakefast, but I think my influence has rubbed off and now its brekkfast all the way. He does still use side, frame and mash. One word I do like is laiking, for playing. I suppose it's related to larking?

A Yorkshire great uncle of mine used to say "Reach to" when the food had been brought in at tea-time. It didn't matter if you wanted to eat cake first either, though my great aunt made the bread and butter so dainty (sliced and buttered a finger roll as if it were a large loaf) that it was just as attractive as cake.

In Oxford I worked with a woman who said brakefast. I explained the breaking fast thing to Minibags the other day. Can't remember how it came up but she loved it and wondered why she hadn't spotted that herself.

Yes I remember fair clemmed and siding the table.I think it's an age thing and a lot of these words are not in general usage now. That said I haven't lived in Yorkshire for a long time now.
Also in some areas breakfast is pronounced brake fast which is nearer the meaning I suppose. I have family in West Yorkshire and they say ' we are going in for us tea ' etc.
It's all very interesting how things differ in fairly small areas.