fly high
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Same as biro and not ballpoint.
[News] Old fashioned words you use
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fly high
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Also lino. Lino also for flooring.
NigelTaylor82
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Cad to describe a friend who didn’t behave very nicely towards his girlfriend
Si Gull
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Growing up away from our fair county, I always thought this was a Sussex thing as the only people I ever heard using it were relatives that lived in Brighton/Hove/Lewes.
Easy 10
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I'm very fond of using the word BUFFOON, or its close cousin BUFFOONERY. Usually preceded with an 'utter' or 'absolute'.
I am also quite partial to referring to close friends and acquaintances as 'squire'.
"Here's that picture of Myleene Klass smothered in swarfega that I was telling you about Easy"
"Ahh, nice one. Cheers squire".
I am also quite partial to referring to close friends and acquaintances as 'squire'.
"Here's that picture of Myleene Klass smothered in swarfega that I was telling you about Easy"
"Ahh, nice one. Cheers squire".
Comrade Sam
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The filth
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maltaseagull
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Please, thank you, can I have, should have.
Easy 10
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Bobbins is nice as well.
"Leeds will be easily top arf next season, I tells thee"
"Have a day off Arkwright, you're talking absolute bobbins again"
"Leeds will be easily top arf next season, I tells thee"
"Have a day off Arkwright, you're talking absolute bobbins again"
schmunk
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You might want to rethink this one.
Oh lord don’t mention that. My middle sister, who used to be a right hippie in her youth, has now gone ultra right wing and was prominently at the vanguard of the ‘Stop Asylum Seekers Coming to Northeye” campaign!
Whoislloydy
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My grandad still refers to black people as "coloured kid" he's by no means racist, he's just old.
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Gladly they are not coming nowOh lord don’t mention that. My middle sister, who used to be a right hippie in her youth, has now gone ultra right wing and was prominently at the vanguard of the ‘Stop Asylum Seekers Coming to Northeye” campaign!
Fairly confident that the word "deli" wasn't in use when I used to hang out in Little Common, last century!
Possibly. Although there's also a construction in Welsh - 2.25 would "bum* munud ar hugain wedi dau", literally five minutes and twenty after two. If it's a Sussex phrase and a Welsh one, it's no wonder I can't get it out of mind
* - for those with minds like schoolkids, that bum is pronounced bim
1066familyman
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I have a habit of putting the word, 'old', in front of a lot of things.
For instance, when asking after someone who is still clearly very young, I'll say, ' How's old.... doing?'.
I think, but not certain, that it's a Sussex thing?
Maybe other counties do it too, but certainly something I picked up from working a lot with country folk from the Robertsbridge area when I was young, and it's never left me.
For instance, when asking after someone who is still clearly very young, I'll say, ' How's old.... doing?'.
I think, but not certain, that it's a Sussex thing?
Maybe other counties do it too, but certainly something I picked up from working a lot with country folk from the Robertsbridge area when I was young, and it's never left me.
fly high
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On my way to work one morning met a really large lorry on a very narrow road. It had stopped at a slightly wider point and the driver was trying to work out how he could get out of it. Got to work and complained about meeting a bloody juggernaut, two twenty somethings completely flummoxed, no clue what I was talking about.
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1066familyman
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Queer had two other meanings when I was growing up, aside from still being used commonly in relation to homosexuals.
'She had to go home as she came over all queer'. As in, not very well.
'He's a bit queer, but he's alright once you get to know him'. As in, he's a bit different, or odd.
Also, growing up on a Council Estate in the 1970's. People often had 'nervous breakdowns'. I never knew a single person who had 'depression', ever!
Oh, and everyone had 'front rooms' with a 'settee' and others things in it. No one had a 'living room' or 'lounge', and no one owned a 'sofa'.
1066familyman
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We only ever went to the 'pictures' to watch a 'film'. No one ever went to the 'cinema' to watch a 'movie'.
Both terms have stuck with me throughout, although I can't remember the last time I went to the pictures as I'm not really a film fan.