To 'boole' was to push your bike, didn't have to be up a hill as we don't have a lot of them in Hull. Nowt wrong with the Hull accent. Lived here all my life and I have never used a fern or been on rerd once. Or had chip spice for that matter. But the HDM love to ridicule us on a quiet news days. Wouldn't wash with the locals in Liverpool, Newcastle or Birmingham. They'd be run out of town.
I was in a bar in Puerto de Mogán on Gran Canaria a couple of weeks ago and my chips had chip spice on them. True story.
That was a word we even used in the more sophisticated outpost of Brid when I was a kid, which was a long time ago. Same with a lot of other words claimed to be Hull ones in the regular space-filling articles in the HDM.
You do hear people pronounce "rerd", but most Hull folk pronounce it, well, 'road'. So why is it the so called posh people pronounce it 'rowed'? Our very own Queen Liz sounds bloody ridiculous when she speaks yet we use the term "The Queens English". What's that all about?
It was pure ‘extra’ straight out of the late seventies Yankee Burger. I could really go a Bacon/egg burger or a Frank the Kraut right now.
At least as far north as Sunderland, people still get 'brayed'. I suspect croggy is also used over a large part of northern England. The word 'sprag' (very ancient norse origins like bairn) seems to be dying out as people start to learn their words from 'The Sweeney' where it's 'grarse' when you sprag someone up. Think sprag is used over a large part of Yorkshire also. The only uniquely Hull words I think might ne 'tenfoot' and 'twag', dunno about tansad . ;On road= thought this was only used by darksiders, referring to Holderness Road
We always used twag when I was young, all those decades ago. I think that word is used differently by some nowadays. Tenfoot is indeed unique. And sounds better then the Wessie gunnell.
Oh my God, I could go Yankee Burger for my breakfast, dinner and.tea. Why can't anyone make that quality these days?
Mafting, silling down, paggered, bain etc all used in other parts of the North. Your right to mention our accent blending into Sunderland though, its more similar travelling right up the East Coast with Whitby and Middlesbrough being a curious mix of east riding meeting geordie, smoggy, than going West where it audibly changes not far past Gilberdyke with wessie lingo in Goole and Selby. Roughest East Hull is the broadest and most unique Hull accent.
My Saturday when I first started working: train to Paragon, into the arcade next to bus station to up my PB on Galaxians, Yankee burger, Sid Scarbs, HMV, John Sheridon’s, City, bus home. Happy days.
Lot of Holderness yokels migrated into East Hull over the years, tend o have broader vowels and speak a bit slower than West Hull. I have an unprovable theory that East Hullers tend to say KERLD whereas West Hullers tend towards 'COWLD' I CART PROVE OWT LIKE, JUST SAYIN Also Hull people when pronouncing 'Broad Highway' will say ;BRODE IGHWAY But as I say, IT'S AS BRODE AS IT'S LONG AN IF IT INT BROCK IT DUNT NEED FIXIN
