... this kind of thing doesn't usually make me laugh but Isidor is like Tommy Cooper, just funny without speaking. When he signed for us he said something to his wife like, "Wake up love, you need to pack, I've just signed for Sunderland." "Where's Sunderland?" "Never mind, you'll love it."
That's very good, but there's no such word as 'shan' (it might be in the dictionary, but it's bollocks and nobody has ever used it) . . . . anywhere
I think you'll get people disagreeing with you tbh. It's not a word I've ever used but it's common slang in Edinburgh ... ... perhaps it's filtered down to parts of the NE. TBH I've seen it written more than heard ... it's not a nice way to describe someone.
It doesn't count if only Jocks, like you, use it, and it hasn't filtered down to this area 'cos it's bollocks . . . . so there
I'd never use it but plenty do, I'm amazed you've never noticed ... ... perhaps you only ever listen when it's you talking 'Playing him in that role expecting him to win aerial stuff is just shan as ****.' Post by: steesafc, May 4th, 2024 in forum: Sunderland. Well that’s Shan as **** ain’t it. Post by: Nads, Nov 7th, 2023 in forum: Sunderland Proper shan making them climb owa buses imo. Post by: Scootsie, Jan 19th, 2022 in forum: Sunderland
Ha'way man, they even use it in Australia 'Three slips and a short leg for the right hander 0.2 1lb Starc to Shan Masood, 1 leg bye, 140kph, angled into the thigh pad, it runs off the...' Post by: Ozzymac, Nov 21st, 2019 in forum: Sunderland Presumably a cricket player who's not very good.
50 years ago . . . . I wasn't even born It's a conspiracy . . . . you're ganging up on me, you bazzas
Sorry mate but they do in Hartlepool! I'm from the collieries so I have no idea what it means anyways
Strange that, I knew it was used in Hartlepool but that seems to be an isolated pocket. I'd not heard it in the coastal Durham pit villages or round the Darlington area. That surprises me because Darlo people use a lot of old Gypsy words which is where I'd expect shan comes from. It's sounds like a Gypsy word such as radge, scran, gadgie, etc. Those are all words people who trade horses use regularly and have crept into regular useage.
I used it as a teenager. Mainly when someone got screwed over. E.g. That's shan as owt that like. I grew up in Northumberland so I guess that's almost Scotland.
Growing up as exiles, in the Midlands, was mental. Our friends were 'Geordies' from Alnwick to Darlington who all spoke differently but sounded exactly the same to the locals. We sometimes couldn't even understand each other. Some of the Northumbrians would say 'the morn's morn' for tomorrow morning and we'd say hacky for dirty whereas some from the Tyne valley would say hacky for lazy. We'd say vexed for angry and the Sunderland lads would say radged. However we spoke, we all stuck together when the locals thought they could bully us
Yeah hacky definitely means dirty to me but I have also used the term he's hacky lazy to describe many a work colleague
It's the only place I've ever heard anyone use the word 'che' meaning pal ... ... I expect that's a Gypsy word as well, Frankie would know
Haven’t seen him for a while. Still play golf with a couple of his “old hands” twice a week. Good mates with a few more.
