Contracting ooop North

[suityou01]

And noticed people say the word "mithered" when they mean bothered. I thought this was a Northern expression but am told by one of my learned Northern colleagues it is a word in the OED, and indeed it is in the online version, but one of my colleagues has a slightly dusty copy of the OED and it is not in there. So to me its one of those new words that got spat into the dictionary just because enough people made a fuss.

Such as "Roadrage" and "Credit crunch"

Is mithered a word?

Not darn sarf its not.

[Bagpuss]

Aye up, stop mithering me you nesh bstard and don't e-mither me either!

[Drewster]

Aweee n boil yer heeed!

[suityou01]

Aweee n boil yer heeed!

Did you just sit on your keyboard?

HTH

[suityou01]

The amount of sense you make is inversely proportional to the distance from Buck Pal. After all it is the Queens English.

[Drewster]

Did you just sit on your keyboard?

HTH

Face Bovver'd??

[cailin maith]

And noticed people say the word "mithered" when they mean bothered. I thought this was a Northern expression but am told by one of my learned Northern colleagues it is a word in the OED, and indeed it is in the online version, but one of my colleagues has a slightly dusty copy of the OED and it is not in there. So to me its one of those new words that got spat into the dictionary just because enough people made a fuss.

Such as "Roadrage" and "Credit crunch"

Is mithered a word?

Not darn sarf its not.

I never got it either.... but i say it now.

And Nesh.... nesh WTF is nesh????

Also Barm cake??? For the love of God, it's a bread roll.

Oh and northerners you can keep your chips and gravy... yeeeuuuuukkkk!

But.... I still love Manchester - even if they do speak funny!!

[Bagpuss]

The amount of sense you make is inversely proportional to the distance from Buck Pal. After all it is the Queens English.

No not Buckingham Palace, it wasn't built when it was invented. The Queens English is an invention from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. At her court she didn't like regional accents and so made people speak in "The Queens English" only Walter Raleigh was allowed to speak in his South Westerly tones.

[Bagpuss]

A Nesh person.. is a poofter or lady who feels the cold. It's quite a localised word, even Mancs wouldn't know it.

Chips and Gravy, mmm, chips and curry sauce is better though, and we call a Barm a Batch.

As peter Kaye puts it.. do you not serve anything moist in your chippies?

[cailin maith]

A Nesh person.. is a poofter or lady who feels the cold. It's quite a localised word, even Mancs wouldn't know it.

My ex was from Stockport... he said it all the time!!