I know I'm a bit behind with this - found this email when looking for another. In Humberstone/Scraptoft, where I lived, I'd never heard of "okie" or "sucker" for icecream or lollipop. My hubby, though, in Oadby knew the "okie" word well. I knew of pikelets in Leicester but here they're always crumpets. Then again, smaller ones are called pikelets. Bread rolls were cobs to me in Leicester, but just bread rolls here. On one visit to my father in law he constantly talked about "baps". Tea cakes were never my thing but I found "cheesecakes", which had nothing to do with cheese, annoying! Now there are REAL cheesecakes! Didn't realise "Ta" for thanks was confined to Leics., or even UK. "Ta-ra" was common amongst friends in Leicester but I notice Liverpool people use it all the time. (Get to know a few accents being in Oz.) And then there's "me duck"! Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nivard Ovington" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 12:04 AM Subject: Re: [LEI] Dialect > > Likewise asking for an "Okie" gets some odd looks > > As does "cheers luv" on occasion > > Another way we could tell Leicesterites was if they said "Ta" by way of > thanks > > Then of course one of my customers who always left with "ta-ra a bit" > > Wonder where he came from <vbg> > > He got quite miffed when I called him a Brummie :-) > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > >> Nivard hit upon one part of everyday life which has different names >> across >> the country - namely the humble bread roll. >> >> As he rightly says, in Leicestershire it is a cob, as it is in Notts and >> Derbys. But go to Nuneaton just over the Warwickshire border, and they >> use >> the word batch. Nip up to Sheffield and it's a bread cake, and over the >> Pennines you ask for a barm Elsewhere it's a bap. >> >> I can remember as a child, when on holiday out of Nottingham, I wanted an >> ice lolly and asked for a sucker. Nobody understood me, and I also got >> some >> very funny looks. >> >> >> >> Brian Binns > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2112/4786 - Release Date: 02/03/12 >

Hi Jan, Chance is we knew each other, I lived down the hill Gypsy Lane but I was all ways in Humberstone. I went to Mundella school. I all ways had an okie when I lived up new parks. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John & Jan Marchant Sent: Saturday, 11 February 2012 12:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LEI] Dialect I know I'm a bit behind with this - found this email when looking for another. In Humberstone/Scraptoft, where I lived, I'd never heard of "okie" or "sucker" for icecream or lollipop. My hubby, though, in Oadby knew the "okie" word well. I knew of pikelets in Leicester but here they're always crumpets. Then again, smaller ones are called pikelets. Bread rolls were cobs to me in Leicester, but just bread rolls here. On one visit to my father in law he constantly talked about "baps". Tea cakes were never my thing but I found "cheesecakes", which had nothing to do with cheese, annoying! Now there are REAL cheesecakes! Didn't realise "Ta" for thanks was confined to Leics., or even UK. "Ta-ra" was common amongst friends in Leicester but I notice Liverpool people use it all the time. (Get to know a few accents being in Oz.) And then there's "me duck"! Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nivard Ovington" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 12:04 AM Subject: Re: [LEI] Dialect > > Likewise asking for an "Okie" gets some odd looks > > As does "cheers luv" on occasion > > Another way we could tell Leicesterites was if they said "Ta" by way of > thanks > > Then of course one of my customers who always left with "ta-ra a bit" > > Wonder where he came from <vbg> > > He got quite miffed when I called him a Brummie :-) > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > >> Nivard hit upon one part of everyday life which has different names >> across >> the country - namely the humble bread roll. >> >> As he rightly says, in Leicestershire it is a cob, as it is in Notts and >> Derbys. But go to Nuneaton just over the Warwickshire border, and they >> use >> the word batch. Nip up to Sheffield and it's a bread cake, and over the >> Pennines you ask for a barm Elsewhere it's a bap. >> >> I can remember as a child, when on holiday out of Nottingham, I wanted an >> ice lolly and asked for a sucker. Nobody understood me, and I also got >> some >> very funny looks. >> >> >> >> Brian Binns > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2112/4786 - Release Date: 02/03/12 > ------------------------------- 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

Hi Gill, My husband Norman wasn't to know if you ever went to Bridge Rd school .He is from Moat Rd Leicester and the different says you mention espesually Me Duck which I was always tempted to go Quack Quack to Well !! Cheers Olwyn in Kaipara NZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gill Goddard" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [LEI] Dialect > Hi Jan, Chance is we knew each other, I lived down the hill Gypsy Lane but > I > was all ways in Humberstone. I went to Mundella school. I all ways had an > okie when I lived up new parks. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John & Jan > Marchant > Sent: Saturday, 11 February 2012 12:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LEI] Dialect > > I know I'm a bit behind with this - found this email when looking for > another. In Humberstone/Scraptoft, where I lived, I'd never heard of > "okie" > or "sucker" for icecream or lollipop. My hubby, though, in Oadby knew the > "okie" word well. > > I knew of pikelets in Leicester but here they're always crumpets. Then > again, smaller ones are called pikelets. Bread rolls were cobs to me in > Leicester, but just bread rolls here. On one visit to my father in law he > constantly talked about "baps". > > Tea cakes were never my thing but I found "cheesecakes", which had nothing > to do with cheese, annoying! Now there are REAL cheesecakes! > > Didn't realise "Ta" for thanks was confined to Leics., or even UK. > > "Ta-ra" was common amongst friends in Leicester but I notice Liverpool > people use it all the time. > > (Get to know a few accents being in Oz.) > > And then there's "me duck"! > > Jan > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nivard Ovington" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 12:04 AM > Subject: Re: [LEI] Dialect > > >> >> Likewise asking for an "Okie" gets some odd looks >> >> As does "cheers luv" on occasion >> >> Another way we could tell Leicesterites was if they said "Ta" by way of >> thanks >> >> Then of course one of my customers who always left with "ta-ra a bit" >> >> Wonder where he came from <vbg> >> >> He got quite miffed when I called him a Brummie :-) >> >> Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) >> >> >> >>> Nivard hit upon one part of everyday life which has different names >>> across >>> the country - namely the humble bread roll. >>> >>> As he rightly says, in Leicestershire it is a cob, as it is in Notts and >>> Derbys. But go to Nuneaton just over the Warwickshire border, and they >>> use >>> the word batch. Nip up to Sheffield and it's a bread cake, and over the >>> Pennines you ask for a barm Elsewhere it's a bap. >>> >>> I can remember as a child, when on holiday out of Nottingham, I wanted >>> an >>> ice lolly and asked for a sucker. Nobody understood me, and I also got >>> some >>> very funny looks. >>> >>> >>> >>> Brian Binns >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2112/4786 - Release Date: 02/03/12 >> > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Hi Gill Don't think I knew you, unless you were at Humberstone School in a class near mine and you've most likely changed your surname by marriage, as I have. I lived on Cardinals Walk, opposite direction to Gipsy Lane, and went to Collegiate school after Humberstone. Interesting you knew the word "okie" as it was never used in my area, where the ice cream van came regularly in summer and we kids queued up and bought ourselves one. Not sure where you mean when you say you lived "up new parks", unless you mean New Parks Estate, which I heard of but never really knew where it was! Re the swimming, we did it much too late, ie. started at age 13. By working hard by myself at Spence St pool in the evenings I managed to learn to swim but there were a couple of girls who never did. Now, I know, even in England children are taken to swimming lessons at school much earlier, as they are here. I was very surprised on arrival here in 1965, though, to find that a lot of Australians couldn't swim then - not all beach goers! We made sure our children learned while young and our grandchildren are real water babies! When they visit us here in the retirement village they have a great time in the pool, as well as at the nearby beach (with the sharks!). Jan in soggy Nowra, Australia, where the rain is making up, in a short time, for many years of drought ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gill Goddard" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 4:42 PM Subject: Re: [LEI] Dialect > Hi Jan, Chance is we knew each other, I lived down the hill Gypsy Lane but > I > was all ways in Humberstone. I went to Mundella school. I all ways had an > okie when I lived up new parks. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John & Jan > Marchant > Sent: Saturday, 11 February 2012 12:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LEI] Dialect > > I know I'm a bit behind with this - found this email when looking for > another. In Humberstone/Scraptoft, where I lived, I'd never heard of > "okie" > or "sucker" for icecream or lollipop. My hubby, though, in Oadby knew the > "okie" word well. > > I knew of pikelets in Leicester but here they're always crumpets. Then > again, smaller ones are called pikelets. Bread rolls were cobs to me in > Leicester, but just bread rolls here. On one visit to my father in law he > constantly talked about "baps". > > Tea cakes were never my thing but I found "cheesecakes", which had nothing > to do with cheese, annoying! Now there are REAL cheesecakes! > > Didn't realise "Ta" for thanks was confined to Leics., or even UK. > > "Ta-ra" was common amongst friends in Leicester but I notice Liverpool > people use it all the time. > > (Get to know a few accents being in Oz.) > > And then there's "me duck"! > > Jan > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nivard Ovington" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 12:04 AM > Subject: Re: [LEI] Dialect > > >> >> Likewise asking for an "Okie" gets some odd looks >> >> As does "cheers luv" on occasion >> >> Another way we could tell Leicesterites was if they said "Ta" by way of >> thanks >> >> Then of course one of my customers who always left with "ta-ra a bit" >> >> Wonder where he came from <vbg> >> >> He got quite miffed when I called him a Brummie :-) >> >> Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) >> >> >> >>> Nivard hit upon one part of everyday life which has different names >>> across >>> the country - namely the humble bread roll. >>> >>> As he rightly says, in Leicestershire it is a cob, as it is in Notts and >>> Derbys. But go to Nuneaton just over the Warwickshire border, and they >>> use >>> the word batch. Nip up to Sheffield and it's a bread cake, and over the >>> Pennines you ask for a barm Elsewhere it's a bap. >>> >>> I can remember as a child, when on holiday out of Nottingham, I wanted >>> an >>> ice lolly and asked for a sucker. Nobody understood me, and I also got >>> some >>> very funny looks. >>> >>> >>> >>> Brian Binns >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2112/4786 - Release Date: 02/03/12 >> > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2112/4801 - Release Date: 02/10/12 >