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My mother was always saying "well I go to Shields" this was her expression of surprise.

me "I've a hole in my shoe"
mum "well I go to Shields"

me "I've just broken my leg"
mum "well I go to Shields"

Can anyone help with the origins of the phrase?

No idea?

'Eat your crusts and your hair will get curly '

Is there a place called Shields anywhere around where you live?

Yes on Tyneside there is South Sheilds but I've seen it it's rubbish (to quote our metal freind)
we lived in Gateshead and had no connections with the place. Can't understand it
Well I go to London
Well I go to Manchester
Just don't work.

Is there anything in paricular there?

My Nan used to say something like "They'll send you to ..." (I can't remember the place name), when you did something a little bit crazy. She said the place because there used to be some kind of mental asylum there. I think she spent a few weeks there or something...

In Lancashire the saying was...

Weeellll I'll go t'foot of our stairs

It sounds more like

Weeeeeell I'll gor t'fut'v our sters!

Well! ah'll gaa ter't foot of ower stayers!

I was just about to post that, when I noticed lil had beat me to it. The pronunciation's slightly different, being frae Yarkshire like


How's yer belly off fer spots?

Lx

Seat da'n o'cher. .. Sit down on the chair.

Woost tha' like a drink o'watter?.... ... Would you like a drink of water?


OOh.. this is wonderful

Eeh, ah wun maind a drink a Corporation pop, me belly thinks me throawt's cut!...

Oh, I wouldn't mind a drink of water, i'm very thirsty indeed!


One of my Grandma's worst insults, rarely used was: "He's wuss than shitin t'bed wakken!" It took me ages to work out that "He" is not only worse than having a bowel movement in bed, but also whilst awake in said bed

Lxx

Very good!!

Reet gud? or Gay gud?

I still hear the older generation describe something as 'gay gud' (very good), to sniggers and strange looks frae t'young uns.

Has anyone written an Entry on dialects?

to have a look (tae hev a luk)

Enny Moawre Lil?

Lx

Only this little rhyme I remember Mum telling us as kiddies


fella sed ta me canta dance
I sed hoo he sed you
I sed me he sed aye
I sed no he sed oh
an' walk'd away


It used be said very quickly!

Good one! It's a good job there's no-one else here, i've been speaking it out loud, trying to get faster

No entries on regional dialects that I could see, plenty on Daleks though

By, ah'll ave ter away ter mi bed in a la'al bit, ah's abaht buggered!

(Gosh, I'll have to go to bed in a little while, i'm quite tired)

Lx

G'night Langly!

I have really enjoyed this thread!!

Thank you

lil xx

Ah've reet enjoyed mi sen an' all!

It's bin reet grand ter meet yer lass, g'neet, mind t'bed bugs don't bite.

Ta-ra fer now!

Lx

Ta-ra chuck!

lil xx

Hi all,

We had the 'well I'll go t't foot of our stairs' too.

We also had 'It's looking black over Bill's mother's' which meant the weather looks like it's going to get worse.

prancingpilchard

Firstly, to Footbacon, post 5. Rainhill was our local establishment.

As in "They should send ... to Rainhill on a number 7 bus".

Bus route 7 was the one that went via Rainhill Hospital, or to give it it's popular name, the loony-bin.



As for the 'Sheilds' one, it was not so long ago people would not venture from their own town, or only on rare occasion; so saying this about going to some place not really distant in modern terms, could be a parody of the old days, with your mother carring on an old saying.

To Footbacon - our place was Lincoln.

My Mother has a load of sayings I've never understood. Such as "She's all there with her cough drops" meaning she's very clever. Anybody got any ideas on where that one comes from?

'If you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all.'