Owd Words

[BumbleB]

Yes, JB, that is correct.     I think it was quite a wide-spread habit to hide when the bailiff was around wanting payment, although not necessarily in the coal cellar.

[lydiaann]

Talking about adding an 'r' in between a word ending with a vowel and another starting with one, we always used to call the TV programme "Law & Order" 'Laura'.

[jaybelnz]

Love this one BumbleB - we used to sing at College.  Our Choir Mistress was from Yorkshire!

https://youtu.be/J5leMI95urQ

[BumbleB]

Yes, a good one.  We had a guy at the local Folk Club who used to sing "While Shepherds watched their flocks" to the tune of "On Ilkley Moor" 

Try this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy6q8vBlrP8

[jaybelnz]

Thanks BumbleB!  That was great!  I love YouTube, can always find something good to watch on there if I don't like what's offering on the TV!

As I don't have a smart TV -  I'm lucky that I can connect my iPad to the telly with a couple of special cables, and anything I am doing on my iPad comes up on the telly. Like watching YouTube! If I'm on a roll!   

 It's also great if I am showing someone my Family Tree, or other things like photos etc,  rather than them having to huddle around and look over my shoulder! 

It was great at New Year, when my brothers and our families were having a get together. 

I just connected up the iPad to his TV, sat back in the chair with my iPad, logged into Ancestry, and  away we went!   

Right bedtime for me!  Goodnight/good morning to you all!  Have a great week!

[Pennines]

What would our ancestors be making of all this new-fangled stuff like phones, mobiles, tellys, vacs, washing machines, i-pads and other items that have one letter, then three! --- etc etc.

I remember a few years ago having to ask in a shop - which were the CDs and which were DVDs when buying a pressy for my grandson. Typical wrinkley!

[Mike in Cumbria]

Yes, a good one.  We had a guy at the local Folk Club who used to sing "While Shepherds watched their flocks" to the tune of "On Ilkley Moor" 

Try this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy6q8vBlrP8

That was the original tune for "While Shepherds". It is thought that the Ilkley Moor words were probably made up for fun, whilst walking back from chapel.

[BumbleB]

Ah, that's a turn-round    And very interesting.

[kooky]

Born in Manchester and brought up in Lancashire, I knew all those words except the last one.
Actually, when I was born M/c was in Lancs.!
I agree about the extra 'r' in drawing. It has annoyed me for years. I often wonder if they put the extra 'r' in the written word -drawing.
In the 60s my late father ran a youth football team. At his first match one of the boys asked "wurz casey?" My father replied that no one of that name was playing. The boy laughed and said he meant the football they were to play with! Casey was  caseball, made of leather and heavy, in those days.
Kooky