Feast or Fair? Discuss....

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  1. Marc

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    Are lass just looked at me gone out and called me weird, when she realised that what I was calling 'the feast', she called 'the fair'. Got me wondering if it was just me.

    So....feast, or fair??
     
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    Fair or Fare! However it's spelt . As in Fun fair/fare
     
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    hmm. that's another in the fair camp..
     
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    Hello sailor;-)
     
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    "Feast" was something before my time ... e.g. "Poggy Feast" - a big community celebration in Pogmoor which included a fayre?
     
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    feast for def
    but 1st and last feast i went to up wombwell had quite different menus
    somehow i prefered the manky feast/fairground crap to the syp cordon bleu served
     
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    Ive used both.
     
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    Feast
     
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    I came across this when I moved from Chapletown to Hoyland Common when I was 10.

    atha gooin t'feast..??

    I had no idea what they were on about and still find it difficult to comprehend the differences in the colloquialisms considering the places are only 3 miles apart.
     
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    Barnsley feast week was when the markets were replaced with a fun fair. As a kid we called it the feast.


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    was always 'wombwell feast' to me, when it used to be where cop shop is now. and when it moved to aldham, even the field was named 't' feast field'...always feast to me
     
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    Was always feast to me until I moved here and people didn't know what I meant. I occasionally slip up and accidentally refer to it that way at times.
     
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    When I was a kid it was always Hoyland feast on the town hall field. The fact that it was always Tuby's fair that turned up, used to confuse the crap out of me.
     
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    Practically all Barnsley pits, factories and other large Businesses closed for Barnsley Feast Week. Mid August I believe.
     
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    I've only ever known it as a fair as in funfair.
     
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    Always was Barnsley Feast for me.
     
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    A feast is a fair on the feast day of the patron saint of the local church. So if it's on BFC's car park, it's a fair unless it is the feast of St Mary.
     
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    Fair as in Heath Common Fair
     
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    Feast.
     
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