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CLKD

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #135 on: February 04, 2025, 05:36:04 PM »

Troshle - Norfolk word for threshold
Squit - Norfolk word for rubbish
Dwyle flunking - Norfolk game  ;D
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jaypo

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #136 on: February 04, 2025, 07:21:18 PM »

Aberdonian and the word fit
Can mean
1. As in healthy and fit
2. Foot
3. What/pardon
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CLKD

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #137 on: February 04, 2025, 07:44:47 PM »

 ;D. I'd be lost immediately  :D
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Cookie25

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #138 on: February 04, 2025, 08:25:24 PM »

Aberdonian and the word fit
Can mean
1. As in healthy and fit
2. Foot
3. What/pardon
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 :D :D :D :D ;D :D ;D

An Aberdonian is in a shoe shop and the assistant hands him a pair of shoes. Puzzled, the customer asks:Fit, fit, fits on fit fit?

To which the assistant says At een on at een, an at een on at een
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SundayGirl

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #139 on: February 04, 2025, 09:58:09 PM »

Took me a while Cookie25 but I got there in the end ;D

CLKD -- get the squits round here and you're looking for a toilet sharpish!
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CLKD

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #140 on: February 05, 2025, 09:06:19 AM »

That's common here too  :o
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jaypo

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #141 on: February 05, 2025, 10:24:52 AM »

Understood perfectly cookie  ;D Doric is a whole different language
My mum worked in BHS for a while and the manager was English,one of the assistants asked him......Fit il a dee we these hingers , 😂🤣😂 anyone?  ;D
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CLKD

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #142 on: February 05, 2025, 12:53:14 PM »

What will I do with these hangers .......... but said quickly, that could be in Swahili  ;D
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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #143 on: February 05, 2025, 01:20:05 PM »

Haha 10/10 clkd  ;D
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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #144 on: February 05, 2025, 02:25:39 PM »

Over my head!   ;D

I’d say………Yer What? ……🤣😂
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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #145 on: February 05, 2025, 02:30:50 PM »

 ;D ;D

I managed to work that one out jaypo. Only because I watch Shetland and one of the characters, to my very English ears, talks just like that 😁
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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #146 on: February 05, 2025, 02:47:45 PM »

Ooww used to love a bit of Shetland Sundaygirl,word that the bloke maybe coming back.
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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #147 on: February 05, 2025, 02:49:50 PM »

Do I get a star  :medal:

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jaypo

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #148 on: February 05, 2025, 06:10:54 PM »

🥇🏆
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SundayGirl

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Re: Old fashioned sayings
« Reply #149 on: February 05, 2025, 06:28:06 PM »

Ooww used to love a bit of Shetland Sundaygirl,word that the bloke maybe coming back.

You mean Douglas Henshall? Yep it was much better when he was in it.

The character I was thinking of is called Sandy. His accent, to me, is a cross between Scots and Norwegian. I almost need someone to interpret  ;D
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