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[Alan]

My wife always refers to a funnel for pouring liquids into a narrow-necked container etc as a "tundish". Kids look at her in bewilderment. Another word that's virtually disappeared is "last" as that iron thing that was used to support shoes in the days when home re-soling was commonplace

[nb from rome]

What about the press in the kitchen?

[Le200]

Praters pronounced prayters.
Me mam used to always send me to the shop for 5lb or em

[Alan]

Do you remember when 20lb of anything was called a score? As in as said to young Sally Army cadet, "con thi gew and gerrus a score o' spuds in thi 'at lad?"

[Olliebeak]

My grandson was mithering about 'What's for tea?' on Sunday afternoon.

I told him 'Two jumps at the pantry door and a bite of the latch!'.

Absolute bewilderment all over his face - he hadn't a clue what a 'pantry' was never mind a 'latch' .

My grandad had his own last - he always mended all our shoes. He also had a 'brace and bit' - no electric drill in his toolbox! I found one in an empty property a few years ago and, of course I couldn't resist claiming it as the family had left it to be dumped. It's now sitting in my own toolbox .

[gangad]

Alan, on 26 May 2011 - 07:37 PM, said:

My wife always refers to a funnel for pouring liquids into a narrow-necked container etc as a "tundish". Kids look at her in bewilderment. Another word that's virtually disappeared is "last" as that iron thing that was used to support shoes in the days when home re-soling was commonplace

I think a tundish was a funnel mainly used in brewing Alan,As for the last it seems they went from being used for their intended use to fashionable doorstops and now to oblivion. My Dad used to put studs in my rugby boots on a last.cork studs they were,Imagine doing that now

[SWIMMER]

here is another couple to think about mangle, dollytub, and posser.

[nb from rome]

We used to have some funny colours, like fawn and mauve.

[Phyll]

My Dad had several "Lasts". Used to mend all our shoes. Love the words, mithering and dawdling.

[Alan]

You never hear "wench" used today

[Lowe House Boy]

One of my favourite words which I first heard when I was about nine years old is Scorrick,which means a small amount. The first time I heard it was when a bloke in Bowness Avenue in Clinkham Wood used it when his very old car wouldn,t start. I can still hear him saying to my mates dad."It,s out of petrol there isn,t a scorrick in the tank".
It seems a perfect word for its purpose and I still use it a lot myself.

[the olden days]

Yes I remember my Dad having a tundish in the cellar at the Pub, and having an iron last a foot shaped thing that you put your shoe over to resole or anything to do with shoes.

I started married life in 1957 with a boiler which I lit in the wash-house and did my washing in tubs and used a rubbing board to get stubborn marks out also a possa which moved the water through the clothes and a dolly a wooden stick with about four legs which you used to move the water through the clothes to copy the washing machines of today by swirling clothes throughout the water. Then of course the old mangle - who said 'good old days' - washing took all morning, and longer still to dry.
Don't forget the starching of shirts and aprons etc.

[Alan]

Rorm, as in "will you stop rorming about". Sort of fidgeting I think

Another one from the past was scrawp which might have been a Lancky version of scrape. "I had to scrawp it all up." These were probably words unique to the north Then there was mard which meant soft or wimpish and nesh which was similar but usually aimed at someone who felt the cold more than most.

These were probably colloquial northern words.

One that used to puzzle me was "brat" as in an apron made of sacking that we used to use to hold spuds in when spud-picking.

No chair back was complete without an antimacassar

Edited by Alan, 27 May 2011 - 11:01 AM.

[gilly]

I still tell the missus to stop mithering.When did hubcaps become wheel trims?Scraps became fish bits?And the flicks turned into the cinema?

[Le200]

Dusted - Meaning having your collar felt by the local bobby