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A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z.
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A

a - I
abeawt - about
addled- not thinking straight
agate - on about
ah - I
alicker - vinegar
allus - always
al'reet - all right
'am - I am
amust - I must
an'all - as well, too
anyweer - anywhere
appen - maybe, perhaps
areawnd - around
arn - earn
arrers - darts Dust want a game o'rarrers? - Would you like a game of darts?
arse abeawt - back to front
arse oer tit - head over heels
arse uppards - wong way round/incorrect (generally, in reference to a job done) (Andy G's Dad)
art - are you
ast - have you
as'ta - do you have - as'ta getten reet time - Do you have the right time
aw - I
awe'l - all
awe,m - I am, I'm
awf - off
awlreet - alright
aw'st - I will
ax - ask
axed - asked
axin - asking
azer - has she

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B

babby - baby
bally - stomach, belly
barm - yeast
barmpot - simpleton
beal - moo(sound of a cow)
beawt - without
beawn - bound
beawnt - going to
bellasses - bellows (Lancashire double plural)
belly-wahrt - stomach ache
benny - tantrum
bet'thur - better
beying - buying
bicker - argue
bin -been
boowuth - both
bout - without
bowels - bowls (used in Crown Green Bowling - also known as woods)
bowt - bought
bowtem - bought them
Bowton - Bolton (Town in Lancashire)*
*A well known folk song/poem "Bowton's Yard" inspired Tony Warren to write CORONATION STREET
booath - both
bowd - bald
brass - money
brat - apron
breet - bright
brid - bird (child)
britchies - breeches, trousers
brock - broke
brossen - broken
browt - brought
Burrie - Bury (Town in Lancashire)
butty - sandwich (sugar butties, jam butties, traycle butties)
byem - beam
bum baylies - bailiffs
burra - but I
buzz - bus

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C       

cack 'anded - left handed, clumsy
cakehole - mouth
camp - chat (particularly when supposed to be working)
cap't - baffled ~ stuck
caur - cower
caw - call
cawed - called
cawn't - cannot
caws - calls
ceawer - cower
ceawncil - council
ceawnted - counted
ceawnty - county
champion - good, well ("How are you?" "Am champion")
character - written reference for job
chast - chased
cheear - chair
childer - children
chompin - chewin
chuck - throw
clarty - sticky (as in pastry sticking to the roof of your mouth) (Editors note, this word was sent to me from R.A in N.Z., he has a Yorkshire background. Clarty sounds familiar to me though, can anybody confirm a Lancashire connection?0
clay ow - clay hole (artificial lake caused by previous "brick work diggings)
Clithra - Clitheroe
clooas - clothes
clocker - broody hen
clotyead - simpleton (cloth head)
clout - to strike
clowt - item of clothing
clowt - dishcloth
clum - climbed
cob on - annoyed 'es getten a cob on - he is annoyed
collops - lots of (collops o' bacon)
coom - come
con - can
connit - can it
conno' - cannot
corporation pop - water
corrans - currants
cowd - cold
crack crate egg - simpleton
croodle - croon, sing
cruckt - crooked
crusses - crusts as on pies or the ends o a loaf of bread

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D

Darrun - Darwen (Lancashire town)
dee - die
deawn - deawn
diddy - did he
doower - door
doowerstop - thick sandwich
dowter - daughter
dule - The Devil (Th' owd lad)
dunneleead - simpleton
dreawn - drown
dreawnded - drowned
dug - dog
dust - do you - Dust come frae Preston? - Do you come from Preston?

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E

eawt - out
eawtside - outside
eawr - our
e'en - eyes - a Lancashire noun plural finishing with 'n'
eigh up - please move - look at that
enoo - enough
entry - narrow passage between houses (Ashton Under Lyne)
erdid - she did
es'tin - dustbin (My grandmother would say "Purrit inth' estin" - Put it in the dustbin. [G.D. Preston])
etten - eaten
ey lads ey - real'ity, basics ("When it comes to ey lads ey")
eyter - eater
eytin - eating

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F

fain - glad
faw - fall (e's fawen an' brok 'is leg)
feart - feared, frightened
feesh - fish
feight - fight
ferus - for us
fettle - fix
feyther - father
fleckin - looking for fleas (on ones person)
floower - floor
flummoxed - flustered
forgeet - forgot
forgetten - forgotten
forrin - foreign
foyer - fire
foo - fool
fot - fetch
fotch - fetch
fotched - fetched
frabbin - struggling (to do something).
fratch - argue ("owd wimmin fratchin")
fray - from
freight - fright (rhymes with eight)
frimbles - nervous or uncertain
frit - fright
fro' - from
fust - first

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G

gallasses - braces (from gallows [braces hang trousers]) a Lancashire double plural
geet - got
getten - got
gi - give
giggle gaggle - narrow passage between houses (Ashton Under Lyne)
ginnel - narrow passage between houses
git - illegitimate child
gitten - gotten
give us - give me
gob - mouth
Gobbinland - Oswaldtwistle
gobbiner - native of Oswaldwistle
Gobbinlanders - see Click>>>LETTERS #1
gooa - go
gooin - going
gormless - slow(as in simpleton)
gowd - gold
gradely - good or very
gronny - grandmother
greaund - ground
guduz - good as

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H

havin kittens- anxious - worried
hawve - halve
hauf - half
haupney - halfpenny
heause - house
heaw - how
heawf - half
heawr - hour
heawse - house
heyt - height
hommer - hammer
hond - hand
hoo - she (from Anglo Saxon "ao" - she)
howd - hold
howder - holder
howdim - hold him
Howfen - Westhoughton
Huncoyte - Huncoat

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I

im - him
imbook - hymnbook
int - isn't, is not
inth - into the, in the
inurt - inward
itwer - it was

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J

jawnt - jaunt
jert - jerk
jeyn - join
jigger - narrow passage between houses(Liverpool)
jiggered - exhausted, not working(broken)
jannock - quite fair, reasonably good

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K

keawer - sit
Keawyed City - Westhoughton (keawyeds - natives of Westhoughton) The story - Once upon a time, a Westhoughton cow got it's head stuck in a five barred gate. The townsfolk sawed off it's head, to free it.
There is a memorial stone commemorating this event on Manchester Rd, opposite the top of Church Street.
keyy - key
kilt - killed

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L

lading can - vessel used to fill wash boiler (or dolly tub)
lang - long
Lanky - Lancashire
larn - learn
leet - light
leet - let
leeust - least
lee wisper - unearthly yell
lerrim - let him
let'thur - letter
Leyth - Leigh
leyther - native of Leigh
lish - agile, fit
lobby gobbler - native of Leigh (lobby is a stew)
loife - life
loike - like
lowse - lose
lugs - ears

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M

maiden - clothes airer
mardy - spoilt child
maunt - must not ("Tha maunt geet t'neer t'fire")
mayte - meat
meawth - mouth
met - might
mey - may
meyt - meat
mi'sen - myself
mi'sel - myself
missus - Mrs (the missus - the wife)
mokes - maggots
moggy - cat (sometimes mouse [West Lancashire])
moither - annoy (stop moitherin' me)
moider - as above - but East Lancs
mooest - most
mon - man
monny - many
mun - must
munno - must not
murther - murder (not necassarily a reference to killing someone.) "It wurr murther at work today" murther meaning - hard work or effort
musta - must I

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N

naer - near
nagur - work
nay - no
neaw - now
neet - night
nesh - cold (when the weather is chilly, you feel nesh)
nethen, naythen - (now then) a greeting
noan - none
nooas oles - nostrils
nobbut - nothing but, merely
noddy - fool
no nouse - lacking in intelligence
nooan - non
nought - nothing
nouse - sense
nowt - nothing

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O

o' - all
oer - over
oi - I
oin - I have
ommer - hammer
on - of (boowuth on 'em)
onert - honoured
our Peg - my wife
owd - old
ow do - how do you do (greeting)
Owdam - Oldham (Lancashire Town)
owdonabit - slow down - jus a moment please
owt - anything
owtelse - anything else

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P

pace egg - Easter egg (Peace egg)
papper - paper
parky - cold
peawnd - pound
peys - peas
pie eyter - (pie eater) native of Wigan. (I'm not 100% sure of the origins of this. One suggestion is that it is because miners from Wigan returned to work, during a strike, thus @eating humble pie'!)
pig coyte - pig pen
pig oyl - pig pen
po fagged - exhausted
pon - pan
pownd - stressed ('am pownd t'deeath)
poo'ed - pulled
posser- a paddle or round disc on a stick, used to agitate clothes, during wash.
pow - haircut
prayto - potato
praytus - potatoes
preawd - proud
punced - kicked
pund -pound
punt - round bottomed, clinker built, small boat (Not like the flat-bottoms of Oxford & Cambridge)
purring - clog fighting
purrit - put it
putherin' - blowing
putty brains - simpleton

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Q

quare - queer
querthur - quarter

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R

rappit - rabbit
reawnd - round
reet - right
reych - reach
roifle - rifle

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S

sauce - scald/reprimand (to a child - "Th'al get sauced, if tha gets catched)
scoo - school
scrat - scratch
seaund - sound
seed - saw, seen
segs - hard lumps of skin on hands (can be caused by typing dictionaries! GD)
sell - self
sengle - single
sesit - says it
Setdy - Saturday
seyn - say
sez - says
shepster - starling
shives - slices (shives of bread)
sich - such
sin - seen
sirloin - as in SIRLOIN STEAK could be deemed a Lancashire Term because it was at Hoghton Towers that King James knighted the Loin of Beef. (I'd love to know what he was drinking!)
sithee - behold
shoddy - coarse cloth
shoines - shines
shoon - shoes - a Lancashire noun plural finishing with 'n'
"sin 'es arse" describing someone who is angry about something Ian Lumb from Barrow sent this one, he also mentioned "'es thrown his toys out of his pram" meaning something similar, but it might be a saying specifically used by the police, in Barrow.
side 'table - clear crockery etc after eating
sken - look (Sometimes used to describe a crosseyed person "er skens" - she is crosseyed)
skroikes - cries
slopstone- draining board (on sink)
smook - smoke
smuft - narrow passage between houses(Freckleton)
sneck - door catch ("Put sneck on")
sneck - nose
Snuffy Harrod - Great Harwood
snicket - narrow passage between houses
sodjur - soldier
speg - chewing gum
speyk - speak
spittin feathers- thirsty
spuyl - spoil
stele - stile
stond - stand
stonnin - standing
suff - outside drain (in back yard)
summat - something
swat - sweat
sweel- deliberately set fire to chimney, to get rid of soot

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T

t - the
tae - tea
tan - taken
tarra - goodbye
tawk - talk
teed - guaranteed
teem - pour ("Teem us a cup o' tae" - Pour me a cup of tea")
tek - take
tha - you
tha knows - you know / you are aware, aren't you
thend - the end
thee - you
theer - there
thewt - thought
thi - you
thowt - thought
thowd'mon - father (the old man)
thrutch - push
towd - told
traycle - treacle
tram stopper - thick sandwich

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U

um - them
umteen - plenty, several
un - and
unawl - and all, as well
untee - untie
up t'stick - pregnant
ut - at
'utch - move
uv - of
uz - we, us, as
uz'll - we will

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V

vawse - vase

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W

wacked - tired
waggin - wagon
wain't - will not
wannt - want
wantsta - want to
warrabowt - what about
wark - work
watter - water
way'er - water
wayther - water
weer - where
weesh - wish
weighvin - weaving
wesh - wash
weshed - washed
wesher - washer
wetch - watch
wheelt - wheeled
wheere - where
whoam - home
whom - home
wi - with
wick - quick, agile - or heaving with ie "wick with mice"
Wiggin - Wigan
wilt - will you
will'ta - will you
wimmin - women (plural)
winter edge - clothes airer
wo' - wall
wod - what
wom - home
wor - what
worrel - what will - Worrel thi do? What will they do?
wrang - wrong
wull - until ("I won't be back wull 2 o'clock")
wun - wound (wun up mi wetch)
wurr - were

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Y

yawl - you all
yed - head
yedwarch - headache
yer - listen, hear
yerd - heard
yerole - earhole
yer'sel - yourself
yer'sen - yourself
yo - you
yon - yonder or that
yonzeez - that is his

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Z

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SOME LANCASHIRE SAYINGS

"Ah cud eyt a buttered frog"- I'm hungry

"Ah'm fur clemt! Weers mi jackbit?" - I'm quite hungry. Where did I leave my packed meal?

" Ah wurr cawd goin't'shops burra forgeet" "It was my intention to go to the shops but I forgot" (I was called) (TM. Leigh)

"Ah'm bown't faw owt wi' thee, lad" (Quote from Tony McCormacks' Father in Law, when he caught Tony in a compromising position with daughter - Karen - before they were married) "I am bound to fall out with you young man"

"'As't purrup mi snap?" - Have you prepared my sandwiches, for work?

"Bin mon bin mon?" - Probably from Wigan - "Has the Dustbin man been?"

"Bread etten is soon forgetten"Said about an ungrateful person

"Con'ta lend a hond mon" - "Can you please help me"

"Don't stand on'th edge o't'cut, mon, th'art teed faw in"- Don't stand on the edge of the canal, my friend, you are certain to fall in

"Ees fair bowlegged wi brass" - "He's very rich"

"Faitin dogs come limpin whoam" -(Fighting dogs come limping home) "Don't quarrel"

"It's a luvly shade o' black o'er t'mother-in-laws" It's about to rain (From T & K McCormack, collected from a chap named Brutus, who was from Leigh.)

"Jow thee fat yed" - "Shut up, you always think you're right" (S Cook)

"Keep yer 'and on yer haupney" Warning to young ladies "Don't let young men take liberties) (Andy G)

"Mi belly thinks mi throats bin cut" - I'm very hungry

"Monny sondy greaunders" - Reference to natives of Blackpool or Southport (Sandy beaches)

"Once every Preston Guild" Not strictly dialect, but a phrase that means "Not very often" (Preston Guild occurs every 20 years)

"Pigs wain't follow an empty bucket" - "People will not work for nothing"

" Put Th'wood in'th'ole" - (Put the wood in the hole) - "Close the door"

"Stondin theer like one a' Burtons dummies" description of an idle person

"Tha's bin aytin vinnigger offa knife" - a response to a sharp phrase or scolding remark

"Tha's no oyl in thi' lamp" said to a 'fool'

"Thick enough t'chowk a donkey" A reference to a wad of notes in a rich mans wallet.

"Tintintin"- It is not in the metal container

"Mi belly thinks mi throoats cut" I am ready for something to eat

"Yer weren't made at Pilks" A St Helens term for "You are obstructing my view" (Pilks - Pilkingtons Glass Works)


"Wertibenfur" Where are you bound for or "wurt ti gewin"

"Tha meks a betta doower than a winda" You are obstructing my view (usually the TV).

"Bet tha cud eyt an appul thro a beard wire fence" My you have got big teeth

"Thaz a face like a line a wet weshin" Stop sulking

"Sawreetferthee" It is all right for you

"Standin theer leyke cheese at fourpence" Hanging around - Having nothing better to do.

"'Es spat is dummy out" He is angry (childish like tantrum).

"Tha cunt sto a pig in a ginnel" You are very bowlegged

"Thes getten a face leyk a bulldog chompin a wassap" God you're ugly
(" Thes geete a face leyke a bulldog likkin piss off a nettle")

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LANCASHIRE PHRASES

Can you tell what the following phrases mean? scroll down for the answers

A1. Whose are these clogs?
A2. What is the matter with you?
A3. I bet that it does not work.
A4. Frozen to death. (A lanky expression for being very cold).
A5. It is not what it was.
A6. Hold on a bit old lad.
A7. Did he get it home?
A8. I ought to have brought him
A9. If it is yours, say so
A10. Throw it into the bin
A11. Is your Maggie coming?
A12. It's not half right
A13. Has he heard himself?
A14. Because it is not yours.
A15. Has he had his hair cut?
A16. Do you mean the dustman?
A17. Does it stop here?
A18. I have his lighter.
A19. She has broken her word.
A20. He has his own way.
A21. He must not come in here.
A22. She has her faults.
A23. Let her go will you.
A24. It is not always right.

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ABOUT THESE PAGES

NB generally any Lanky dialect will be in italics
The Lancashire Dialect Diary is an on-going project. I am amazed at the level of interest that it has evoked.
The main contributions are coming by the way of emails from readers.

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CONTRIBUTIONS

I obtained the basic list from a Glossary at the back of a "FOLK SONGS & BALLADS OF LANCASHIRE" + "GRADELY LANCASHIRE" (A recording by Peter Wright & Derek Stanton)
If you would like to make a contribution MAIL ME!<<<CLICK I will publish your email on the sight Don't forget to to let me know how you came by the word(s), wherabouts you come from and have you any "LANKY" connections.
Thanx in anticipation

Graham

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FURTHER MATERIAL

GRADELY LANCASHIRE

Is an excellent recording featuring DEREK STANTON (ex BLUEWATER FOLK) & PETER WRIGHT (Author, former Senior Lecturer in English Language and Fellow in English Dialects at Salford University)

The recording features Songs, Poems & a light hearted verbal guide/quiz to "LANKY"
Available from Derek 01254 830776

COMPLETELY LANKY
Dave Dutton
Exellent LANKY guide - very funny
ISBN 1 872226 61 2 (Aurora publishing)

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Derek Stanton & Peter Wright (Gradely Lancashire) (For the inspiration)
Harry & Lesley Boardman (Folk Songs & Ballads of Lancashire)
Ernest Ford (Alberts Easy Teach Yourself Lancashire Dialect) ISBN 1-873873-00-x
Tony & Karen McCormack (Exiles fom Leigh, now in Cheshire)
Nick Wagg (Stoke on Trent)
Stuart Cook (Stockport)
David Lamont (Whose email points out links to Norse words)
Vicki Parslow-Stafford (Now resident in Australia)
Andy G (The Mayflower Folk Club)
Womans Own Cookbook (1964)
Ian Lumb (Barrow now in Cumbria due to local Govt. changes, but still in Lanky for the purposes of this work)
Robin Arzoni N.Z.
Al & Helen Jones (Ontario)
John Lewis (Canada)
Cathie Garner ex St Helens - Now South Africa
Mike Hall ex Darwen (Beneath the 'ills so bleak and barren lies mucky scruffy little Darrun) Now in Australia
Jason Kayley & Michelle Walsh (Now in Cornwall)
Steve Driver (Clayton le Moors)
Carole Wild (Blackburn)
Gordon (Australia - originally Oswaldtwistle - Ossie to Aussie :-)

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LANCASHIRE RECIPES

ECCLES CAKES

Shortcrust pastry, 1oz ground almonds, 4oz golden syrup, a little nutmeg, a little lemon juice, 4 oz currants, 1 oz ground coconuts.

Line some patty pans with shortcrust, put in each a layer of syrup, then currants, spice, lemon juice, coconut & almonds. Cover with pastry. Roll over with the pin very gently. Bake in a moderate oven for about 30 minutes.

BRAWN

1 pigs head, 1 tongue, 1 heart, a little lemon rind, cloves, mace, salt & pepper ¼ pint of vinegar.

Simmer the meat very gently in a saucepan with enough water to cover. When tender, remove the bones and cut the meat into small pieces. Return to the water, add seasoning and vinegar. boil up once and pour into a mould and leave to set in a cool place. Turn out when cold.

LANCASHIRE HOTPOT

2lb mutton chops, 2lb potatoes, 8oz mushrooms, 2oz ham (or bacon), 3 sheeps kidneys, cayenne pepper & salt to season, 1lb onions, 2oz butter, ½ pint stock.

Cut the kidneys, peel and slice the onions and potatoes and chop the ham. Place a layer of chops in a casserole, then kidneys, mushrooms, ham, onions and potatoes - seasoning every layer; the last layer must be potatoes. Pour over the stock and put knobs of butter on top. Cover the casserole and cook very slowly for about three hours. Take the lid off and brown the top before serving.

MANCHESTER PUDDING

Shortcrust pastry, 2 oz butter, 1oz castor sugar, rind of 1 lemon, jam(stoneless), 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon brandy, ½ pint milk, 2oz breadcrumbs.

Boil the lemon rind in milk and pour over the breadcrumbs. Take the rind out and beat in the egg yolks (after 5 minutes) with butter sugar and brandy. Line a pie dish with pastry and spread some jam over it. Cover with the breadcrumbs mixture and bake in a moderate oven for 45 minutes. Whip the egg-whites with some castor sugar and lay over the dish. Return to the oven for 1 minute to set. Serve cold

PARKIN

1½ lb oatmeal, 8 oz brown sugar, 1lb treacle, 1 teaspoonful ground ginger, 8 oz butter, 1 teaspoonful allspice.

Mix the dry ingredients. Heat treacle and butter; add to the dry mixture and leave to stand overnight. Place in a well-greased shallow baking tin and bake in a moderate onion for two hours. It is done when the parkin springs back when touched.

POTTED SHRIMPS

1 pint shrimps, 1 blade ground mace, a little ground nutmeg, 4oz butter, a little cayenne pepper.

Only se the freshest shrimps should be used. melt the butter, add the seasoning and shelled shrimps. Heat through gently but do not boil. Pour into small pots and eat when cold.

TRIPE AND ONIONS

1lb tripe, ½ pint water, 2 onions, ½ pint milk, a little flour, salt and pepper.

Wash the tripe well, cut into square pieces and bring to the boil in water. Throw the water away and add water and milk, chopped onions, salt and pepper. Thicken with flour, after having boiled the tripe for a good three hours, by stirring in with a little milk. Bring to the boil again and serve.

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DIALECT JOKES

MUM - "Go to the shops and buy a steak & kidney pie!"
BOY - "Fray Bentos?"
MUM - "No! Fray 'Co-op"

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OTHER "LANKY" SITES

MORE "LANKY SPEAK<<<Click DAVE DUTTONS' PAGE
LANCASHIRE LINKS<<<Click OTHER 'LANKY' STUFF
ONLINE FORUM FOR LANCASHIRE FOLK
FRIENDS OF REAL LANCASHIRE<<<Click
WIGAN DIALECT <<<Click
THE STORY OF SHADE END & JAMES ASHWORTH WOOLLEN MILL<<<Click

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LANCASHIRE AS WAS

This page is dedicated to "FELLOW LANCASTRIANS" wherever they are. Many in foreign parts such as New Zealand, The United States of America, Canada, Denmark & Australia, have taken an interest, and made contributions to the content of these pages.
Let us also spare a thought for the people of OLDHAM, BARROW IN FURNESS, WINDERMERE, CONISTON, SOUTHPORT, WARRINGTON, ROCHDALE, MANCHESTER, LIVERPOOL, WIGAN, BURY, ST HELENS, BOOTLE, STOCKPORT ETC, who, thanks to the stroke of some bureaucrats pen, woke up, one day in 1974 to find that they now lived in such places as Merseyside, Sefton, Greater Manchester & Cumbria. To the people who read this page. THEY WILL ALWAYS BE LANCASTRIANS.

This was the best example of a pre-1974 map, of the county, that I could find. If anyone has a clearer one, please scan it and send me the file.
Cheers
Graham

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