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‘Mitching’ or ‘On the mitch’ is a term I’ve only heard in the Cardiff area. I think it was brought over from Ireland, where it’s also used.
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cree for the safe area in a game of touch (or tag) is also very local to Cardiff.
no idea of the etymology of that one
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Rjk
cree for the safe area in a game of touch (or tag) is also very local to Cardiff.
no idea of the etymology of that one
We used cree up in the valleys. I've no idea where the term originates. It's one of those words I only ever used as a child, until now!
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We used cree up in the valleys. I've no idea where the term originates. It's one of those words I only ever used as a child, until now!
looking on the internet, it might come from the word cross.
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looking on the internet, it might come from the word cross.
“Arf n arf” in curry houses outside local area can cause confusion for the waiters …………:hehe::thumbup:
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Another word in English that has a Welsh language source is flummery - comes from llymru, a dish made with oatmeal or wheatmeal, boiled to a jelly.
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Is goalie when/wen unique to this area?
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not telling
Another word in English that has a Welsh language source is flummery - comes from llymru, a dish made with oatmeal or wheatmeal, boiled to a jelly.
I've never heard of this word.
How would you use it?
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Is goalie when/wen unique to this area?
it was goalie rush when I was in primary school, I went several years thinking it probably had something to do with Ian Rush :hehe:
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lardy
I've never heard of this word.
How would you use it?
2 meanings
1 - insincere flattery
2 - a milk pudding - this is where I came across it, in an old recipe book
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the other bob wilson
Is goalie when/wen unique to this area?
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Rjk
it was goalie rush when I was in primary school, I went several years thinking it probably had something to do with Ian Rush :hehe:
I thought they were different?
Goalie rush is any one player at a time, whereas goalie when is a single player who is both keeper and outfield player.
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The Bloop
I thought they were different?
Goalie rush is any one player at a time, whereas goalie when is a single player who is both keeper and outfield player.
you're probably right, but that distinction didn't seem to make it as far as my school
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The Bloop
I thought they were different?
Goalie rush is any one player at a time, whereas goalie when is a single player who is both keeper and outfield player.
Aren't all keepers also outfield players though? They often come out of their penalty boxes.
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They also say “daps”, but I claim it for South Wales!
"Like diarrhea with daps on" was a fetching simile for someone who could run particularly quickly.
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the other bob wilson
Is goalie when/wen unique to this area?
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Rjk
it was goalie rush when I was in primary school, I went several years thinking it probably had something to do with Ian Rush :hehe:
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Taunton Blue Genie
Aren't all keepers also outfield players though? They often come out of their penalty boxes.
Maybe school playground rules have changed over the years?
Back in my day a keeper stayed in his area (either the semi circular hockey goal, or a combination of tennis court and netball court lines), and any transgression meant a free kick on the edge of the box.
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The Bloop
Maybe school playground rules have changed over the years?
Back in my day a keeper stayed in his area (either the semi circular hockey goal, or a combination of tennis court and netball court lines), and any transgression meant a free kick on the edge of the box.
It was always so unless you didn't have enough players and odd numbers on each side, when the goalie could come out and play. If he was 'needed' he had to sprint back and carry out his keepers 'duties'. too much effort for me even then.
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The Bloop
Maybe school playground rules have changed over the years?
Back in my day a keeper stayed in his area (either the semi circular hockey goal, or a combination of tennis court and netball court lines), and any transgression meant a free kick on the edge of the box.
lines :-)that must have been a posh school
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“Arf n arf” in curry houses outside local area can cause confusion for the waiters …………:hehe::thumbup:
I was working on the StPancras rebuiuld in 2006ish and used a turkish cafe behind Kings cross regularly. One day I opted for a curry and to my surprise the guy said !"Alf and alf?" I'd never heard it outside S Wales before. Where he got it from I don't know! :shrug:
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The Bloop
Maybe school playground rules have changed over the years?
Back in my day a keeper stayed in his area (either the semi circular hockey goal, or a combination of tennis court and netball court lines), and any transgression meant a free kick on the edge of the box.
I'm not exactly 'down with the kids' myself :hehe:
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the other bob wilson
Is goalie when/wen unique to this area?
Having a kick about up Greenway Park nearly 60 years ago, some boys referred to it as Goalie If, only place I’ve heard that, it was always Goalie When to us.
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the other bob wilson
It was Susie Dent, the lexicographer on Countdown, who said it - must admit I was very surprised by penguin.
Coombe as in Babbacombe, Iflracombe and Boscombe.
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A mate of mine from Pontypridd calls a job on the side a “Hobble”, where as i’ve always called it a fiddle.
A Scottish mate of mine calls a throw in a “Shy” when watching a game.
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I wonder if anyone under the age of, say 50, has been ‘out over gardens’ ?…..you did get a six for it though. Cricket had some great old traditional sayings. ‘One handed off the wall’, ‘Last man bats on’, ‘3 shies at the bat’ (if it was a contentious LB (never LBW:hehe:)).
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Coombe as in Babbacombe, Iflracombe and Boscombe.
aren't those as likely to have come from Cornish?
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Many years ago I worked at Cambridge University in a maintenance dept. There was an old English language professor who could talk in English using only words with a French origin and then have the same conversation only using words with a German origin.