General Chat

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Wotcha - I dropped the last bit when I moved - people tended to look at me funny. lol

Following on from Joan's thread, Ay up me ducks, I'd just like to say 'Wotcha Cock!' My godmother, Auntie Peg, always said this as a greeting. She was born and bred in South London. Is it exclusive to there or is it a nationwide greeting? Sue

Sue, I grew up knowing that greeting as normal. (High Wycombe born and bred). It was when I moved to this side of the country that I had to stop saying it. Just looked it up and it is Cockney and comes from the greeting "What cheer"

It's very strange. I hadn't thought about that saying for a good few years, but Joan's thread jogged my memory. Peg and my Mum were best friends from the age of 5 until Mum died in 1997 aged 72. It was their standard greeting to each other and I hadn't heard it since. Now I have just said it to my 19 year old son and he looked at me as only teenagers can! LOL Sue

Certain old folk in Wycombe also used to call others "m'duck". So perhaps that's a bit more widespread? Sue, teenagers! Who'd have them? Nobody else had youth apart from them. lol

Trish At least teenagers eventually grow out of it - we hope. He is my last one - been through 3 teenagers already! Now eldest Grandaughter is 11 - only 2 more years to go before I get another teenager! Her mother already told her she's coming to live with me when she's 13. LOL Sue

Sue, hopefully your grand- daughter will be fine with you. I know my 3 were OK with their grandparents, they saved their moods and tantrums for me!

In our part of the country we say "ey up cock!!) Maggy

I seem to remember something about "how's your belly off for spots"!

trish your right there m'duck lol it is so common in wycombe int it susie

Yes I remember my nan saying "Im going deen tain m'duck" when she was going shopping....in her Wycombe accent lol

sheila LOL!!! my nan was always going raind the corner and dain the tain as well lol mother in law is still very broad bucks susie

I always used to add (under my breath) where the cays go raind and raind lol

Cor, I'd forgotten all about going dain the tain. Was it just me or did they used to call several wasps "waspies"?

yes I remember that lol and do people still say they was frit?

sheila yes lol i say it tooo lol my bro in law laughs his head off cos we all say get off off there instead of get off there susie

What about when you ask how someone is - and the response is "middling"! Susie, you've obviously got a furrener for a bro-in-law

trish hes an ulsterman lol middling to fair!!!! susie