Steve Dean Painting :: View topic - old west slang ---

dm · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:33 pm Post subject:

while we are on linguistics off to Norfolk at the crack of dawn and does anyone no how to translate the local tongue it into English

and what on earth is a costermonger

Ignervius Scumme · Master Level 2 Joined: 06 Feb 2006 Posts: 669

one who mongs costers at a guess.
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Ignervius Scumme · Master Level 2 Joined: 06 Feb 2006 Posts: 669

on the subject of accents, i was recently asked if was scottish by a rumanian gentleman. Being from gods own county I was mightily vexed.
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dm · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:54 pm Post subject:

Take it you are from the same place has Geof Boycot then Mr Scumme?

seansdaddy · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:11 pm Post subject:

Ignervius Scumme · Master Level 2 Joined: 06 Feb 2006 Posts: 669

indeed. Let us pray:

"our father, who art opening the batting
Geoff be thy name
thy technically correct batting come
there will be runs
at the oval as it is at headingly"
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Ray Earle · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject:

dm · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:06 pm Post subject:

No thankfully it's a busmans holiday to Titchwell and Sheringham to see the feathered variety think things will be ok unless the car breaks down and will then have to resort to gestures and lots of pointing

bugsda · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:28 pm Post subject:

dm · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:29 pm Post subject:

nowt to do with clapping then

bugsda · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject:

You don't need two hands to catch the clap, and he was a bit of a lad I've heard.

A costermonger is a barrow boy, but by the 1920s he was pushing a barrel organ about with a monkey on top! Don't know how you earn a living at it, maybe the monkey paid well!

dm · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject:

My Grandad was a steeple jack and grave digger during that time and once they nearly did both jobs in one when some poor devil found his wife playing away and in the dead of night jumped 45 feet from the church scaffold. He missed an open grave by a few feet