The Lancashire Dialect Top Ten Keywords
Vexillology image: Wikipedia
- Eyup cocker (hello)
- It’ll be reet (everything is going to be okay)
- Buzz (bus)
- Mek us a brew (Would you mind making me a cup of tea please?)
- Chuffed (proud)
- Mither (moan)
- Lanky (tall)
- Cowd (cold)
- Swirling (sweating)
- It’s like Blackpool illuminations here (it is either very bright or there’s lots of traffic)
The Lancashire dialect, known colloquially as Lanky, refers to the Northern English vernacular speech of our county, or in other words how we all talk to each other in this area.
The next historic county up is…Cumberland.
Please note this list is neither extensive, scientifically factual or an accurate countdown or cut-off point. It is, as we say in Lancashire, based on the much more gradley no-nonsense reet good method of using yer loaf.
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O’reet?!
Eee-yup!
Ows tha gannin on?
Ack. I’m fairly bruising. I ken we war gunna have a proper psuedo Lanky chinwag. Amma reet? Or amma cracked in the yed? There’s nowt more pressing in tha life, Shirley?
EH!? You wot, mate!? Was you sayin’ summit?!
Actually I’m in Preston tomorrow with a fellow Chorley lad so will have time to practice me Northernisms then. Got to get back into the swing of this Lancashire lingo pronto, one is moving there in February. They’ll be calling me “posh” again, like they used to. Blasted fiends!