Sussex phrases from the past

[goldstone]

I can remember my uncles and my father (all good Sussex farming stock) using some phrases you never hear now:

"Thank you muchly" was one.

Also telling someone the time it was always "Five and twenty past two" or "Five and twenty to four", never twenty-five past or twenty-five to.

Anyone have any others?

 

[Skaville]

I'm off for a stroll along the West Pier

 

[gullshark]

I'm off down the Goldstone.

My nan still says 'five and twenty past' and stuff like that.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

I can remember my uncles and my father (all good Sussex farming stock) using some phrases you never hear now:

"Thank you muchly" was one.

Also telling someone the time it was always "Five and twenty past two" or "Five and twenty to four", never twenty-five past or twenty-five to.

Anyone have any others?

My Grandad used to say the ones about telling the time and he was born on Tyneside and raised in Hampshire, I think it's more to do with the era than the area.

 

[Alonso Moseley]

That new train the Brighton Belle goes like the clappers.

 

[Jam The Man]

'That's The Kiddie' .. meaning 'that's what i mean' / 'that's what i'm talking about'

 

[Frutos]

'That's The Kiddie' .. meaning 'that's what i mean' / 'that's what i'm talking about'

Also not sure that is/was area-specific.

The person I know who used it most is my ex-manager at work, and she's from Hartlepool.

 

[goldstone]

My Grandad used to say the ones about telling the time and he was born on Tyneside and raised in Hampshire, I think it's more to do with the era than the area.

Interesting. I only ever heard it from Sussex folk.

 

[Eggmundo]

Take a shortcut through the twitten.

 

[Alonso Moseley]

'Got ten pence?'

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Interesting. I only ever heard it from Sussex folk.

I also have a letter written by my Great Grandfather to my Grandfather already mentioned in the previous, it it he calls morning "forenoon", another old fashioned saying.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

'That's The Kiddie' .. meaning 'that's what i mean' / 'that's what i'm talking about'

I have only heard kiddie being used to describe man/boy in Brighton and Sussex.

 

[Gully]

I can remember the word munter being used in the Worthing area in the early 90's, far earlier than it became used nationally, was always convinced that it was a regional word that just became popular elsewhere.

 

[Jam The Man]

Also not sure that is/was area-specific.

The person I know who used it most is my ex-manager at work, and she's from Hartlepool.

Fair do's... i mentioned it cos a couple of my mates from London moved to Eastbourne and found it a local thing..

 

[GT49er]

Counting one-erum, two-erum, cog-erum, shu-erum, shith-erum, shath-erum, wineberry, wagtail, terrydiddle, den - probably the last bit of 'Old Sussex' to emain in fairly common use, certainly well into the twentieth century.
'Twitten' is still pretty localised, though.

 

[Alonso Moseley]

Was 'avgaf' purely Sussex? We all spoke it here at school.

 

[goldstone]

Counting one-erum, two-erum, cog-erum, shu-erum, shith-erum, shath-erum, wineberry, wagtail, terrydiddle, den - probably the last bit of 'Old Sussex' to emain in fairly common use, certainly well into the twentieth century.

Fascinating. Never heard that before. Explain please!

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Counting one-erum, two-erum, cog-erum, shu-erum, shith-erum, shath-erum, wineberry, wagtail, terrydiddle, den - probably the last bit of 'Old Sussex' to emain in fairly common use, certainly well into the twentieth century.

was this used to count sheep , ooh aah ?

 

[Taybha]

Alright love fancy a shag

 

[GT49er]

See the article 'Live and Learn' on here - http://www.snakeriverpress.co.uk/sites/135/news/2387/Sussex_Bookends_April_4th.pdf - a slightly different version from what I learned from my Dad and Grandad, All agree about it being used by shepherds for counting sheep.
If you go to the Camera Obscura up Shoreham way, they've got it up there on display too - I'd forgotten how it went for years, but it all came back to me when I saw it again.