I certainly don't know who Tom Pepper was, but he continued to be a bigga liar in Yorkshire too, brought by my grandparents. But as we had a greengrocer of the same name, thought it was something to do with that, we live and learn. Cheers Kay BILSTON (Whitwick, Leics) CANNEY (Witcham, Cambs) CLUFF/CLOUGH (Whaplode Drove, Lincs/Helpston, Northants) HARDING (Tydd St Giles/St Mary, Cambs/Mildenhall, Suffolk/Eckington/Doncaster ) HESELWOOD (Beighton, Derbyshire/Attercliffe Sheffield/Doncaster) HOLROYD (Attercliffe Sheffield/Doncaster) HULL (Welshes Dam, Cambs/Whitkirk. Leicestershire) JEWKES, (Dudley) JONES (Dudley, Worcs/Eckington/Doncaster) MALTPRESS (Witcham, Cambs) MAW(E) (Thorpe Hesley/Salvin, Notts/Attercliffe Sheffield) MINETT (Ely, Cambs) MOAKES (Eckington, Derbyshire/Treversall, Nottinghamshire) MORTON (Sheffield) NEWELL/NOWELL/NOWILL/NOEL (Walsall, Staffs./Eckington, Derbyshire/Doncaster) OKEY (Ely, Cambs) PAINTER (Wednesbury) PASHLEY (Swallownest/Parkgate Rotherham) PEMBLETON (Teversal/Farnsfield, Notts) REYNOLDS (Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk) ROBINSON (Walsall, Staffs) ROLLASON (Dudley) RUMBELOW (Cambridgeshire/Suffolk) SAXTON (Whiston, Yorks) SIMPKINS/SIMPKIN/SIMKINS (Witcham/Woodditton, Cambs.) SMITH (Maxey, Northants/ Whaplode Drove, Lincs/Doncaster) STUBLEY (Lincs/Cambs) SWANN (Sheffield) TURNER (Stokesley, Sheffield) WALLIS (Witham, Cambs) ----- Original Message ----- From: "ROGER" <roger@rhmiddleton.fsnet.co.uk> To: <ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 7:23 PM Subject: [B.C.] Non-gen- what they used to say > Hello listers > I've been thinking about stuff my Nan, a feisty Brades Village woman, used > to say. > > If someone was putting on airs and graces she would say > 'Ers gone all orrismontle' > Now was Horace Montle (Mantle) a person? > Was this her version of another word? > Or did she just make it up! > > While we're on the subject I know someone who regularly says > 'yo'm a bigga liar thun Tum Pepper' > So who he? > > Any ideas? > > All the best > Patsy > > > ==== ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY Mailing List ==== > The B.C. List Admin is Dave Ogden :- > d.ogden@blueyonder.co.uk > > ______________________________ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.5/301 - Release Date: 04/04/2006