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alf
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"DUCK"
« on: Saturday 07 April 07 06:58 BST (UK) » |
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Does any person local to Stoke, know where the expression "Duck" comes from.
Where I live every one calls you "Duck"
Many years age when I just started working at a local Theme Park and new the county. I was on security and a elderly lady from one of the shops came to me and stated the following. "Eh up Duck, their is a dead duck, at the front gate duck". I looked at my mates and said what is she talking about, they were all in stitches
regards
Alf
not a duck fan
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« Last Edit: Saturday 07 April 07 21:47 BST (UK) by alf »
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Beard, Hobby, Tudor, Smith, Derret, Pratt, Short, Trotman All Gloucestershire
Beard & Hanson, Blackburn, Lancs
Beard & Rudman, Wiltshire
Loosemoore, Lusmore (Varients) Wales, Gloucestershire
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alf
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Re: "DUCK"
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 07 April 07 21:49 BST (UK) » |
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Hi Cathy
Very interesting reading, Duck
Alf
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Beard, Hobby, Tudor, Smith, Derret, Pratt, Short, Trotman All Gloucestershire
Beard & Hanson, Blackburn, Lancs
Beard & Rudman, Wiltshire
Loosemoore, Lusmore (Varients) Wales, Gloucestershire
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indiapaleale
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Re: "DUCK"
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 07 April 07 22:10 BST (UK) » |
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My father, a true Brummie, always called my mother Duck.....
'ay, gerrus a cup of cha duck"
And I remember......sometimes on the buzzes years ago the conductor might call you Duck!
"Watch yer step Duck."
Definitely a Black Country and/or Brummie thing !
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hepburn
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Re: "DUCK"
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 07 April 07 22:25 BST (UK) » |
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I thought it was a Stokie thing, Duck...
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bodger
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Re: "DUCK"
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 07 April 07 23:20 BST (UK) » |
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I lived in Derbys. for a few years, I always thought duck was very much an expression from there?, but as a Yorkie, we call every one love, including male to male, and if any man wants to take that furher PM me. Bodger
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alf
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Re: "DUCK"
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 10 April 07 21:02 BST (UK) » |
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I work with a Stokey and for food he calls it " snapping"
Alf
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michaelgperry
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Re: "DUCK"
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 11 April 07 14:17 BST (UK) » |
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As some-one who ia "Derbyshire born. Derbyshire bred, strong in the arm and 'Wik' in the 'ead, Duck is a familiar term. "Eye up mi duck , ah thowt yo wor ded" is an old form of greeting still used in a lot of Derbyshire and Nottingham. I guess that the "Strays" we all see so much in the genealogy lists must take it with them to foreign parts, I know that 'G'Day mi duck" gets some funny looks in Western Australia where I live now.
A good web site with the sayings and audio of them is available from BBC Radio Derby.
Mick Perry in WA.
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Re: "DUCK"
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 11 April 07 14:48 BST (UK) » |
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This brought a smile! I'm Greater Manchester born & bred (ie where "love" is used mainly), but my parents came from "Duck" territory - I visited Mum yesterday & took her out - in the space of about 10 minutes I heard several people address each other as "Duck" - this was Staffs. It does always make me smile, though sometimes I have to bite my tongue to resist a "quack". I would like to know the origins, like Alf.
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Elliebob
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Re: "DUCK"
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 11 April 07 23:32 BST (UK) » |
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I don't know how accurate this origin is but try the link
http://www.thepotteries.org/dialect_qa.html#Where_
My mother comes from the Potteries, but we've lived in Cornwall for over 50 years. We both roared when her cousin left us with a "tara duck" and still say it to one another many years later.
Ellen
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Bennett, Stoke on Trent
Stride, Hampshire
Wright, Stoke on Trent
McConnell, Co Donegal
Brooks, Co Donegal, Antrim
Jackson, Warwickshire/Isle of Wight/India/army
Keefe, Essex, Hampshire/Isle of Wight/army/india<br, Queensland aus. />Chatfield, Sussex
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i bought my wife a copy when she emigrated (from usa)
