Can I just point out, old mate, I am not claiming that either your father-in-law or myself are NOT barking mad!
Thats the first time i've heard it said Hickem. I'd say I said the other Bar' Green with it sounding something like a t, g or a k. If you ask my Kentish missus to say it, she just thinks we're completely bonkers. Mind you... she can't say wall properly either.
It's never been an issue, it's just surprises me how some folk appear to pronounce it. I'm going to stick to what I've always called it. That also applies to the pronunciation of Doderth, the village I've lived in since the day of my birth.
Doderth, since the year of your berth ;-) As for Higham, I couldn't really tell you where it is or if I've ever been there or through it so it's not an area of Barnsley I'm very aware of at all. Which is probably why I tend to say it how I see it because I haven't heard it referenced, where as I have Bar' Green.
Listen to Sky sports highlights. Get VA name wrong for the goal build up too. Worse when you think they add a lot of it after too.
My nannan always used to say hickem where they pickem higham where they fry em, well not all the time she said other things as well
Just been researching Hoyland. High Hoyland Hoylandswaine Hoyland Hoyland Common. Possibly from the Viking era. Hoy means hay or also spur in the land. Lots of farming history in these areas. Swaine derives from pig herd. (Swine).
Another interesting one the word "Nannan" cant get a card wi that on, must be a Barnsley thing, we always used it
I've been in touch with a contact at Look North. Let's hope they get DD's name right in future reports.
