> Why did Grandma used to say - get some best butter, what is butter that is > not best? Maggie-Ann, margarine. How about "tin-lally butties", condensed milk sandwiches? > My son now says why do we say you drink out of a plastic glass. He thinks > a glass is a glass, made of glass, his idea is a plastic receptacle. My grandsons look at me "gone out" when I say "Let me get my pants on", meaning trousers. To them "pants" are underwear! When I was younger we also called them "keks" or the more upmarket "strides". Ian

How about a "Narnie Sarnie" and a cuppa tea made with shaky milk. Liverpudlian I think. On 11 Sep 2005, at 13:57, Ian Winterbottom wrote: >> Why did Grandma used to say - get some best butter, what is butter >> that is not best? > Maggie-Ann, margarine. How about "tin-lally butties", condensed milk > sandwiches? > >> My son now says why do we say you drink out of a plastic glass. He >> thinks a glass is a glass, made of glass, his idea is a plastic >> receptacle. > > My grandsons look at me "gone out" when I say "Let me get my pants > on", meaning trousers. To them "pants" are underwear! When I was > younger we also called them "keks" or the more upmarket "strides". > Ian > > ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== > Please keep signature blocks to four lines or less. Do not include > surnames you're researching as that impedes the interactive search > process. > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >