Off Topic And Now for Something Completely Different

I did the survey twice and despite a number of different questions each time, including the one about croggy, I got the same result.

 

You clearly took a wrong turn mate

Hot cakes with best butter from the baker on the corner of big Kimberley Street/Argyle Street was truly a taste to behold, then on the walk (yep actually walking) to Wilberforce school on Margaret Street calling in to Hicks bakery on Wenlock Street for a round shortcake with jam in the middle, followed up by buying separate ciggy from the little shop on West Parade. Those were the days, and later on it was all worked off by climbing lamp posts and such. Memories eh.

 

I just did it again and indeed, it did say bread cake

 

The best ones used to arrive on a Sunday morning in a van. They came from a little bakery on Endike Lane.

To my shame i can't remember the name of that place. Someone remind me.

Edit : Just remembered, Drury's

 

Talking about Hull words does/did any one use Siling Down (spl.) for heavy rain?

Or rieving (spl.) for pulling at something. e.g. Stop rieving at it you'll have it off the bloody wall.

 

Siling down is used elsewhere. About the only term unique to Hull is tenfoot.

 

I frequently use both & my colleagues just give me a weird vacant look lol

 

Yep, used both, still do at times

 

Yes and yes

 

So, nothing is unique to Hull then. Just like most places.

 

The survey gave one the option to post ones own word. I posted siling for heavy rain.

We used riving (rhymes with driving but not sure of the spelling) for pulling.

Another word I remember from my childhood in Hull was 'sneck' for a gate latch. It may be used elsewhere but I've never heard it.

 

I wonder how many places have a Land of Green Ginger, said he also offering an olive branch.

 

Interesting you say that as I've not had anyone know what I mean when I've used it outside of Yorkshire.

I was looking for it on that link Ron posted but of the dozen or so the had Siling wasn't one of them.

A quick Google seems to show it's a Yorkshire word of Norsk origin. The Norweigian word for Sieve is Sil.

So it's pouring down like water through a sieve.

 

Lots of places have street names unique to them.

 

Olive branch withdrawn. Are you really so ****ing insufferable or am I overreacting?

 

I think he's naturally 'narky '...

 

My grandad was from Leeds and always used siling, as did my mother and many other terms some people think are unique to Hull. The one that he wouldn't have know

Nah...mardy.

 

Nah...mardy.

 

Think I'll survive without that posh overpriced ****e.