Samuel Gamgee, who originally called it "gamgee-tissue." Dr. (Thanks to Ann Tether of Herefordshire, ex-Wolverhampton for this one)įorehead (thanks to Paul Bowdler for this one)Ĭotton Wool. A back yard to a houseįirst : When children were playing games the first child to shout out Foggy went first/had first pick, then the next child would have to shout out Secky. I think this may be a corruption of 'ash hole' (Thanks to Lyn Corbett)īlack Country dish made from pig's organs, onion, sage, bread crumbsĬigarettes (Thanks to Margaret Hill for this one)Ĭatapult usually made from elastic (rubber) bandsįold or enclosure. He, pronoun used to describe the husband or household headįireplace. Hand (children's word) Possibly a corruption from the French "Donnez" to give? Meaning to shiver with cold, or to hesitate. Have no cotter with 'im (have nothing to do with him)Ĭrop of a bird, as in "that sticks in my craw" - I cannot believe itĪ cough (Thanks to Mike Dickens for this one)ĭare not (Thanks to Sean Percival of Oldbury) Joking, kidding, eg "Goo on, yum coddin me"Ĭourting (Thanks to Rex Basterfield for this one)Ĭan you ?, also negative "I cosn't" - I cannot Mate, friend (Thanks to Mike Dickens for this one)Ī smack (Thanks to Mike Dickens for this one)Ī poor job, eg "He's made a right codge of it" Talking or gossiping (Thanks to Rex Basterfield for this one)Ĭhicken, fowl (children's word) also Chooky Egg Mouth "Shut yer cake-hole" ( Thanks to Gordon SMITH of Wollaston) Meaning "very good indeed" eg "We 'ad a bostin time" or "Ers a bostin wench"Ī very large recepticle like a skip (Thanks to Sean Percival of Oldbury) The head (Thanks to Margaret Hill for this one)īank or small hill. Tell 'er terday, the world knows tomorrer" "Blether yed" blether head = someone who talks nonesense, a fool.īlabbermouth eg "'Ers a right blobmouth. eg "Bisn't gooin up the shaps?" for "You're not going up the shops?" ( Thanks to Lee Marshall of Darlaston for this one)īalloon (Thanks to Sean Percival of Oldbury) West Bromwich Albion Football Club (not a very good one!)Īm not, eg "I bay gooin' ter tell yow agen"īelly, stomach (Thanks to Zoë Miller from Cradley Heath)Ī broom of birch, also playfully used to refer to a pert young womanīeen, have been, are, have I bin affirmative reply to questionĪren't, opposite of Bist. (Possibly a corruption from the French "Parlez" to talk?) Thanks to Stuart Appleby of Bilston for this item.īackwards (thanks to Paul Bowdler for this one)Ī truce. "Is it just the way we speak or lazyness which enables us to phase an entire sentence in single letters such as I A A I (I haven't, have I)." (Thanks to Zoë Miller from Cradley Heath)Įat (Thanks to Zoë Miller from Cradley Heath)Īgainst, next to, eg "The housen anunst hisen" © 1998 - 2020 : Compiled from various sources by Ian Beach Quick Scroll Buttons, press a button to jump to the corresponding entries.īefore possibly from Afore (Thanks to Rex Basterfield for this one)Īs in belly ache, stomach ache etc. This has probably changed today due to the greater mobility of people. My Maternal Grandmother, see above - to whom this page is dedicated - reckoned that she could tell which Black Country village a person came from by the way they spoke.
Local dialect was (and probably still is to a lesser degree) quite distinctive between the different towns and villages of the Black Country This "dictionary" is Black Country in general and not particularly Sedgley in origin.
The word endings with 'en' are still noticeable in conversation as in 'gooen' (going), callen (calling) and the vowel 'A' is pronounced as 'O' as in sond (sand), hond (hand) and mon (man).Other pronunciations are 'winder' for window, 'fer' for far, and 'loff' for laugh - exactly as Chaucer's English was spoken. The dialect of the Black Country area remains perhaps one of the last examples of early English still spoken today. The Ancient Manor of Sedgley "Ow we spake" (Black Country Dialect)
0 kommentar(er)
