To be pedantic !

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  1. Marlon

    Marlon Well-Known Member

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    Went to the experience Barnsley last week up at tarn hall.
    I must say I was impressed with all the displays and info all around .
    Learned a lot I didn’t know and spent a good couple of hours there and enjoyed it .
    The pedantic bit is a spelling query more than owt , in a write up they say that Barnsley was a Saxon town with strong Norse influences and old Norse phrases still lingers in our language which is not used much elsewhere .
    Agreed so far
    Then they go on to point out the word laiking as one of these phrases.
    Two things crossed my mind one being that it’s laikin not laiking and two I’m sure it’s still used in the remote regions of the Dales .
    Pedantic I know but that’s the Yorkshireman in me I expect.
     
    Marlon, May 22, 2019
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    A tha laikin art
    Still use it bar when asking lads if going for a beer.
     
    Red Adair, May 22, 2019
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    Just to back you up. Went last week and definitely worth (free by the way) a visit. Re laikin when I worked far side of Sheffield the word was used for just being ont sick. They’d never heard of laikin football or laikin art.
     
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    Did they highlight my favourite saying for lightly battered fish - fish bart coyt?
     
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    I also thought it was laikin. If you do a bit of research I'm sure you'd be able to find the Scandinavian root and development of the word in Yorkshire
     
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    On the subject of using words when we were kids. My mum still buys her grandkids spice,
     
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    My kids have always said spice but obviously not that sort
     
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    The verb is to laik I.e. to play therefore the present participle is laiking I.e. playing. In Barnsley we tend to knock off the g in words ending ing so laikin is acceptable as well.
     
    Simon De Montforte, May 22, 2019
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    So although I wasn’t right I wasn’t wrong ?
    Il take that while I’m in front
     
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    My Danish neighbour knew exactly what I meant when I said we used laiking in Yorkshire - playing.
     
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    I work down at a school in Nottingham and one of my colleagues from sheffield was leading a school trip with me a couple of years back. She offered to buy the kids some spice in the town centre. Let's just say there were too many parental calls to answer asking why she had offered out drugs to 13 year old boys. Had to send out a letter to every parent explaining the misunderstanding.
     
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    What a forward thinking matriarch.
     
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    The modern Swedish for 'play' is 'lek.' It's pronounced more like 'lerrk.'
     
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    She's right. Spice south Barnsley. Sweets North Barnsley. Used to argue this when I worked at Wooley pit. Sweets is a posh word for puddings. Whilst we're on. It's MAM not mum. :mad:
     
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    My dad still eights spice.
     
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    My gran used to tell us when we were kids to stop "orming abart" when we were rolling round on the floor. Episode of Coast 15 years ago visited Great Orme off coast of Wales and explained that Orme is the Viking word for worm.
     
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    To be pedantic.
    That means - ‘to be picky’ in Barnsley.

    I’ve never heard anyone say ‘pedantic’ in Barnsley.
    I’ve had to ask someone what it meant.
     
    Young Nudger, May 22, 2019
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    I’m well travelled ,
    I went on picket duty during the strike .
     
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    Oh goodness no... it's surely mater or mama..... I declare!
     
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