yorkshire speak...a language i use from time to time...


Aye Appen

Aye...
There's nowt new down there.
Them southern scrotes know bollocks!
Scouring shops and messing with larts
Like lasses mithering skirts.
Let em come up here and I'll skelp some ears
Let em try to mess wi me.

Go to sleep our lass-
Tha's nowt to fear...
Out on elbows
If they appear.

While I'm at it
Make me a pudding.
















Poetry by jenks The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2011-08-19 at 02:09

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Hans Bump
Cinema Verite' without the cinema....how cool.
I liked it mucho, jenks
Hans
2011-08-21



Like Mr Beck I'm guessing. But I'm thinking "out on your elbows" is much the same as out on your ears. Given the heave ho. Out the door. The bums rush. Hasta la vista, baby. A swift kiss the hind end.

This is pure delight, though I suppose it's quite mundane to those who speak it daily. Or do they (you) know how otherworldly it is?
2011-08-20


Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
I couldn't understand three quarters of this, but think that I got the gist. Those who know you already knew that you're not to be messed with.

I assume that "out on elbows" means down on your luck. If so, it's a fine phrase.
2011-08-20


countryfog
For someone like me this is like reading "Jabberwocky" . . . what marvelous words, they don't just sit there but tingle and pulse and even writhe with energy and meanings I can only guess at but yet have some sense of.
2011-08-19


Rob Graber
lol--A pleasure to read, and may their ears be well skelped indeed!
2011-08-19



Ooh, I like this, jenks!
I've Yorkshire relatives, so I'm familiar with the sounds and I really enjoyed reading this aloud, especially 'mithering'!
Great images too!
2011-08-19


ngaio Beck
Colorful,but swiftly vanishing,(being overtaken by Rap)
2011-08-19