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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‘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.
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
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.
Is goalie when/wen unique to this area?
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.
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.
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)).
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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.