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Right then I told e how'd been all bunged up, right? So shes squits sixpence tuppance right in my tackle she did! Chip champion bonking bird bits doofer boggles! Old man on my Honda maungy peffin percy had a cracking fishdocks show gipping Johnny!
that's brilliant, I've just sent it round my team. There's one missing though, a "lurgy" which I've had for the last week.
My Yorkshire colleague told me that's what I had and I love the word, can't stop using it.
In my team, we have to deal with a particular nasty bloke from Leeds. We are now all thinking of ways of working words and phrases from this glossary into the conversation, words that, of course, have a totally inocuous meaning to a non-Yorkshireman so we can plead innocence in the face of his spluttering outrage.
But I have my suspicions. You Brits, would a Yorkshire woman really use the term "melons" to a doctor? "Ah've got thiss lump, lahk, in meh right melon..."?
It's less and less frequent though. One of the more annoying consequences of the mid-80's swing towards political correctness was that the use of "Love" as a term of endearment was deemed to be sexist. This despite the obvious fact that everyone called everyone "Love". As a consequence, the phrase quickly re-identified itself as something said from one sex to another. It took a bit longer, but the Male to Female usage seems to be dying out too. Now, the only people who call me love seem to be men over 50 years old and women. And bus drivers (strangely). It's a real shame. As terms of endearment go, it's refreshingly direct.
It's the same in the South West, where I worked for a couple of years. They say "my lover" instead of "love". Well, they used to, but it's almost died out, again probably due to political correctness. A real shame.
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