"DUCK"

[Emsworthy]

Alwight m'duck?  Just adding Northampton to the mix!

Regards, Emma

[alf]

I work with a Stokey and for food he calls it " snapping"

Alf

[scrimnet]

Alwight m'duck?  Just adding Northampton to the mix!

Regards, Emma

And theres me thinking it was more Wellingborough / Kett'rin !!

I would if I could but I kent so I shent so I ainta gunna....With thanks to "Air Aida"

[michaelgperry]

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.

[mshrmh]

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.

[Elliebob]

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

[mshrmh]

Thanks for that link Ellen - interesting.

[brightspark]

Duck is a term of respect,nothing to do with wild fowl, and hails back to a time when most lands were owned by the duke of devonshire,(Cavendish, shugbourgh hall)and he  would be greeted by the locals with a "Good afternoon Duke" and because us stokies only speak the sounds of the words, hey presto  Duck...
As ever talking within industry was frowned upon and discouraged,so we learned to say a lot in as short a time as poss,plus the noise in pits Potts etc

yupmeyduc........good afternoon duke
Or, Owat............How are you?
       Atginon.......How are you going on?
To which is replied   AhOrate..thay!...,...yes  alright , and you?
and lastly kin..L...which is left to the imagination to decide based on the previous examples

PS spell cheka didna likit effa

[marcie dean]

My nan being scots would say,
hi ya hen.  ge is a kiss then hen.

marcie