Hi List Well done Pamela thats a very good translation, the word Purrin was common in the Wigan area where Purrin or Clog kicking fights or contests were common in the Mining areas. It involved contestants holding each other face to face kicking each others legs until one gave way. Jim pamela simmons <[email protected]> wrote: "Yes" replied the plaintiff "I have called and I dare not call again because the last time I went I said 'Now Thomas are you going to pay me a small amount towards what you owe and he said 'O yes, if you will stay a minute or two whilst I put my clogs on, I will pay you off all at once; I will give you such a kicking as you have not had in a long time" And they say the good old days!!!!! Pamela :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. Other people can learn from them! :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Jim I live in Leigh and one can still hear people using 'parred/purred' for 'kicking' as in "yer shu'd a sin yon mon - 'e parred yon baw frum one end o't fielt to't t'other " (You should have seen that man - he kicked that ball from one end of the field to the other). Bolton, Wigan, Leigh, Atherton, Westhoughton etc. all have slightly different accents /dialects and when I was a girl it was possible to tell which town people came from just by their accents. I don't think it is as obvious any more for the smaller towns but I think there is still a noticeable difference between the bigger towns like Wigan, Bolton & St Helens . Pamela

Hi Pam, I'm a Boltonian born and bred,cracking on a bit now but still able to tell the difference in local accents. Blackburn, Darwen or ( Daren) , Manchester, and Wigan speak,like (Ganning dant Lone) , My father told me Clog kicking was called Pawing, must have been painful with the Steel or Brass toecaps knocking bits off the shins. I can alwys found Clogs comfortable and warm and did plenty of skating on the the steel irons, then they invented rubber ones. Regards Jim pamela simmons <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks Jim I live in Leigh and one can still hear people using 'parred/purred' for 'kicking' as in "yer shu'd a sin yon mon - 'e parred yon baw frum one end o't fielt to't t'other " (You should have seen that man - he kicked that ball from one end of the field to the other). Bolton, Wigan, Leigh, Atherton, Westhoughton etc. all have slightly different accents /dialects and when I was a girl it was possible to tell which town people came from just by their accents. I don't think it is as obvious any more for the smaller towns but I think there is still a noticeable difference between the bigger towns like Wigan, Bolton & St Helens . Pamela :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. Other people can learn from them! :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message