Words we don’t use anymore

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Fix yer coupon!

My mum used to say this to me all the time as a kid.

She's from Glasgow, it means sort your face out/cheer up.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Gick.
A great old Dublin word from my childhood. Not used much anymore.

It’s basically ‘shite’. A nice consistency of.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Sharing a common language is great, innit?

 

[unexpected item]

Being frightened...My arse was going half-a-crown, sixpence.

 

[metalblue]

Were you born in a barn ?

That’s reminded me of me dad rip. That or “put the wood in the hole” was his other for shutting the door. These fuckers today don’t know their born, wanting to know if they should shave or wax their bollocks well if you grew up with 1 coal fire to heat the whole house which your mum would get going by holding newspaper over it you’d be grateful of all the hair you had.

Our is the only household I regularly hang out with who still calls the remote the “clicker” and the ceiling light the “big light”.

 

[give it to gordon]

Twenty

A word that people cant say, even that advert for the rugby six nations says 'tweny tweny one' ! Its blood twenty.

 

[Mike Cledford]

"Get off to the tip with you' and 'stop romancing' were my Gran's way of telling you to clear off and stop telling fanciful stories or harmless lies.
I reckon if we had called her the poncey modern 'Nana' we would have been told to 'get off to the tip'. Made in Gorton - no airs and graces.

 

[Mike Cledford]

Twenty

A word that people cant say, even that advert for the rugby six nations says 'tweny tweny one' ! Its blood twenty.

T's and G's seem to be banned when many female BBC presenters speak. Makes them sound a bit fick. There's another one. Alfabet reduced to tweny free le'ers.
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[Citizen of Legoland]

Twenty

A word that people cant say, even that advert for the rugby six nations says 'tweny tweny one' ! Its blood twenty.

Another one is "pence". Too many who should know better say "pee" instead, the lazy fu ... "twenny pee"! Arrgh!

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

"Get off to the tip with you' and 'stop romancing' were my Gran's way of telling you to clear off and stop telling fanciful stories or harmless lies.
I reckon if we had called her the poncey modern 'Nana' we would have been told to 'get off to the tip'. Made in Gorton - no airs and graces.

‘Get up the yard’ was used over here.