Gransnet today....Just my opinion.

Mardy, yes! What about being described as a nesh carrot?

Carpet slippers

Baffies are known as 'carpets' here!

PS we'd see a smirr of rain.

Oh I love my baffies, even though I am hirpling about these days. I usually keep them ben the lobby press.

gilly At Moray House in about 1960, our music teacher was a great advocate of teaching primary children local folk songs instead of poncy English tunes. He got his class of future teachers singing things like "The craw kill't the pussy, oh" from which I can add that the past of "greet" is "grat" - The mammy cat sat doon and grat.

I think he must have been a fan of Robin Hall and Jimmy McGregor, because he had us singing "Brochan Lom, Tana Lom" too (next one on Youtube after "The craw kill't the pussy, oh")

Katek I come from Fife originally and I was also used to hearing the word "mirr". A word I hate and it was used by my Fifer grandmother was baffies for slippers and also calling me hen.

Have you moved * nightowl*?

My lancastrian nan used starved for cold, siding the table, mizzle for misty rain and mardy!

My Edinburgh granny used 'mirr' to describe that sort of shimmery air when it wasn't quite raining. I still use it but only with DH

My Grandmother came from Lancashire, and she used very different words.

Not to me, but then never heard anyone use mizzle either.I think it depends on where you lived, and how rural /city etc.

Another Yorkshire term for being hungry is clemmed as in "I'm fair clemmed" (fair =very). Familiar anyone?

Good for you Night-owl I suspect that you still live in Yorkshire( or the North) which explains it ( or do you?) A lot of us moved away years ago, so these phrases fell out of usage.I remember my late MIL being bewildered by the starved comment and also siding the table.

There's a word in North German dialect 'miseln', which means a fine rain - the sort when it's misty and the air is damp, but it's not actually raining. I would guess that's where the word 'mist' comes from. It's obviously a very old word - perhaps Anglo-Saxon.

I still use all those expressions - starved with cold, mizzling, and frame. And I always mash the tea.

Jane Austen used mizzle for light rain. I've never heard it used otherwise.

Ooh yes, 'frame yourself !' had forgotten that one, how about 'side the table' as well.Meaning clear the table.Not forgetting to mash the tea.

Does anyone remember the expression 'mizzling' used in Yorkshire for fine rain. Also used to tell my children to ' frame ' when I wanted them to do something properly

My mum used to use that expression, roses. She grew up in Yorkshire.

Another Northern expression is being 'starved' meaning freezing cold, not hungry.

Yes, gilly the loo....there have been so many pennies dropped!

Thank you for the explaination re "chapping" . It makes perfect sense now

The story about the lady "greeting" made me giggle Anya . I have heard that expression so many times and the penny has just dropped. "Stop yer greetin' woman" actually means stop crying bloomin' heck I would have never worked that one out!

Roses the loo?

I'm sure jingle is still on GN , she changed her name often enough. I don't mind outspoken I just didn't like nasty. One reason I kept away for a long time, I only submit now periodically until she raises her head over the parapet. I was one of the earliest joiners, I got a prize for it, I loved it and chatted back and forth. Became friendly and had private chats with two members who have left. I can't blame it on one person but there was a lot of nastiness back and forth.

I like the term "the messages" it seems to cover all the different little things you need to do when you go out.
I might have misinterpreted that though. I am only an English woman.

Glad you enjoyed it, Day6. I checked and it's actually "Good Manners for Nice People who sometimes say F*ck". Fab title, I think.

My daughters, all three of them, know I use so-called swear words more now than I used to, mainly "as fillers, as padders, as emphasis adders". It's my rebellion (I didn't in my teens; was a right goody goody, daft wee bugger that I was) against erosions of liberty that are happening in society now, you know, being told how we should behave, what we should eat, blah, blah.

And talking of that, I was listening to a very good discussion between Dave Rubin (American comedian turned interviewer of interesting people) and Joanna Williams who is the author of "Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity". Link here should you be interested in listening.