Cheadle_hulmeBlue
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Yea of course. Most of my family who are from Manchester/surrounding areas say them.
I say mam, more then our kid, I’d say our ‘jack’ instead - (name instead of kid)
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Is this the worst Mancunian accent ever ??
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Yea of course. Most of my family who are from Manchester/surrounding areas say them.
I say mam, more then our kid, I’d say our ‘jack’ instead - (name instead of kid)
peoffrey
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Always said mam,..and our kid,as did all my mates.
I’d hear mum more often. Perhaps it’s like the barm / muffin argument. I genuinely never heard these terms outside of the Gallagher brothers.
salford blue 62
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Maybe a Salford thing ?
Think it's this one
https://www.mancity.com/citytv/features/2019/may/man-city-fourmidable-the-story-of-our-season
It has subtitles and every fink
Forgive them father for they do not know what they do
laserblue
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My brother and I always called each other our kid and most of our mates did likewise with their brothers. Mum and mam were interchangeable.
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I say “Mam” and call my Sister “Our Claire”. My Dad and Uncle call each other “Our Kid”.Does anyone use terms like “Mam” and “Our Kid” in Manchester? I never heard it.
I share an office at work with a woman from Bolton and she always laughs at me for starting a sentence with “I” and ending it with “me”; “I bloody love that song, me”.
She says that it’s a Mancunian thing, she’s not heard it anywhere else.
peoffrey
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I seriously didn’t know anyone who used the term “our kid” to describe their sibling. It was “bluvvoh” etc. If I heard anyone use it then I’d think they were trying to be Liam Gallagher and inevitably not local.
All my friends in my Clayton local were about as Manc as they came and I’d never hear them use these terms. As a developing writer, I take time to listen to what people say as it helps me with dialogue.
All my friends in my Clayton local were about as Manc as they came and I’d never hear them use these terms. As a developing writer, I take time to listen to what people say as it helps me with dialogue.
Dirty Harry
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Does anyone use terms like “Mam” and “Our Kid” in Manchester? I never heard it.
Pretty much all I ever heard where I grew up, my brother still calls me "our kid", the only time he doesn't is when he's talking about me, insert jokes here ---> but it will always start off with "our".
Anybody who called their Mam Mum, was considered a bit posh tbh, sometimes she'd be referred to as the KQ, but never in her presence, if you called your Mam Mother, M'ma etc, you'd likely get a smack for being a posh twat.
Can't help but feel, when Manchester starts to lose that particular dialect, it'll lose a little piece of it's soul for me.
peoffrey
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Manchester is becoming gentrified and it’s part of the reason I can’t see myself living there again. I first went out in town as a student and my circle were from Newton Heath, Failsworth and Levenshulme. Not one remains in Manchester.
In my last office job I’d say 50% weren’t local whilst almost everyone was at CIS back in 2005.
In my last office job I’d say 50% weren’t local whilst almost everyone was at CIS back in 2005.