Wilson & Dennis double act ...

[Smug in Boots]

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.

Very good to hear from you mate, I still bump into the old lads at matches ...

... not Frankie for some time though.

 

[WillD]

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

Na like, dissn Ower dialect is proper shan lik

 

[Somebodys pinched my sombrero]

Very good to hear from you mate, I still bump into the old lads at matches ...

... not Frankie for some time though.

Just had a message off one of the old codgers on here, and mentioned you.

 

[Gordon Armstrong]

**** off ^ ^ ^ ^

 

[Somebodys pinched my sombrero]

**** off ^ ^ ^ ^

 

[Essayyeffcee]

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 grew up in Horden and had never heard of it until I moved down there

 

[Evil Jimmy Krankie]

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

Until I came onto the forum and the one over the road, shan is not a term I ever used or even heard of. Although I was born in Hertfordshire and grew up in Middle Herrington and went to a private school so I’m quite posh. In fact I have a clip of when I was in a pub and I got into a bit of a situation.

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[C Montgomery Burns]

Until I came onto the forum and the one over the road, shan is not a term I ever used or even heard of. Although I was born in Hertfordshire and grew up in Middle Herrington and went to a private school so I’m quite posh. In fact I have a clip of when I was in a pub and I got into a bit of a situation.

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I love that clip, wanted to do it in the Museum Vaults one time, but backed out at the last minute. Calling the barman a draft clart would probably have got me kicked out!