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WOTCHA COCK!

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susie manterfield(high wycombe)

susie manterfield(high wycombe) Report 30 Apr 2004 22:31

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

Trish

Trish Report 30 Apr 2004 22:20

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

susie manterfield(high wycombe)

susie manterfield(high wycombe) Report 30 Apr 2004 22:14

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

Devon Dweller

Devon Dweller Report 30 Apr 2004 22:03

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

Trish

Trish Report 30 Apr 2004 22:01

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

Devon Dweller

Devon Dweller Report 30 Apr 2004 22:00

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

susie manterfield(high wycombe)

susie manterfield(high wycombe) Report 30 Apr 2004 21:58

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

Devon Dweller

Devon Dweller Report 30 Apr 2004 21:56

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

susie manterfield(high wycombe)

susie manterfield(high wycombe) Report 30 Apr 2004 21:48

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

Trish

Trish Report 30 Apr 2004 21:48

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

MaggyfromWestYorkshire

MaggyfromWestYorkshire Report 30 Apr 2004 21:45

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

Trish

Trish Report 30 Apr 2004 21:44

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!

Sue

Sue Report 30 Apr 2004 21:40

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

Trish

Trish Report 30 Apr 2004 21:32

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

Sue

Sue Report 30 Apr 2004 21:29

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

Trish

Trish Report 30 Apr 2004 21:22

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"

Sue

Sue Report 30 Apr 2004 21:19

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

Trish

Trish Report 30 Apr 2004 21:17

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

Sue

Sue Report 30 Apr 2004 21:16

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