The most Sunderland phrase you can think of?

[SteveFTM]

I always thought shan was a Darlo word because the only people I know who use it are from there.

I've only heard the word shan used by Hartlepool folk and doyle for fool or idiot.

 

[fyl2u]

It's a Durham pit village word that they use all over the north east now (from what I can see), certainly not a Sunderland word.

This. My late grandad the ex-miner of 40 years in Seaham used it all the time talking to his old miner friends.

Genuinely never heard anyone say it in real life.

See above.

 

[houghton cut head]

Loads say it in Cumbria.



I heard it was a mining term, from the fellas you went underground with. I could be wrong though

It is definitely a mining term, the people you worked with were your Marras. But I even hear Townies saying it now too, whereas 30 years ago it was mainly just Pit Yakkers saying it

 

[Get Into Em]

I reckon "marra" might be up there as the most Sunderland word for me, like. I learned it on here; no-one in Shildon or Bishop says it.

They definitely do like.

 

[PinzaC55]

In the early 70's I knew a student from out of town who was at the teacher training college and was running a playscheme for the kids in the holidays. He told me he was shocked on the first day of the playcheme when some of the older kids asked him if he had any "tabs" as he thought they were asking for drugs, Later he realised that "tabs" were cigarettes

I told a woman I worked with in Yorkshire a few years ago "I could really use some Ket now" and she was horrified " I didn't know you took drugs".

 

[KarenDent]

Worral is a good Sunderland word, as Bobby Thompson used to say "these byoots divint fit iz send iz some Worral fit ".

 

[matt228]

They definitely do like.

I can honestly say that I've lived in Shildon for about about 22 of my 27 years on this earth, and never once have I heard anyone say "marra". Some people must if you've heard it but it would sound very odd to me if I heard it there. People say "mate".

 

[Get Into Em]

I can honestly say that I've lived in Shildon for about about 22 of my 27 years on this earth, and never once have I heard anyone say "marra". Some people must if you've heard it but it would sound very odd to me if I heard it there. People say "mate".

I live just outside Bishop Auckland and I know plenty of people who say it. It definitely didn't take the SMB for me to learn the word.

 

[Fred Basset]

Use nee bosch all the time.

 

[muggboots]

Never heard of Marra until posting on this Board.
Like the NE accents.

We're borderline unintelligible to outsiders when mob handed. It's class when you're abroad or even down south and you notice someone trying to earwig.

Someone on here in the old days once recalled he'd once uttered the sentence " how mam, man, divven't man"

Haway man woman man, had ya pash. Yall gan up in a bloo leet ya fuckin' radged bassa. Niver mind arl ya gissy and gallower braying crack, wind ya fuckin' neck in afore a whip that bastard cracket from under the chebble and wrap it round ya canister. You're a f***ing casing obsessed cheb.

 

[houst69]

Honeyman is like my f***ing arse

 

[matt228]

I live just outside Bishop Auckland and I know plenty of people who say it. It definitely didn't take the SMB for me to learn the word.

Fair enough

 

[muggboots]

Honeyman is like my f***ing arse

Well paid and competent but lacking in passion, toughness and leadership qualities?

 

[OohBaldyBally]

Eeer marra pass that ammer’ owaa’ ereee’.

This is the one my Geordie ex geordie work mate’s used to use all the time (far more than ‘whees keys are these keys’) for me.

oy an ammer ower ere

 

[KarenDent]

Giz a bite a ya gook. "I say could I have a taste of the core of your apple? "


Giz a couple off " I see you are smoking would you kindly let me have two inhales of your cigarette ".

 

[muggboots]

Hew lasso, will ya gan wi me mate?
Their lass?
Nor, he's packed a in.

 

[DubLass]

Mostly I haven't got a clue what yous do be talking about

 

[sid84763]

Eeeeee nor man!

Eeee can mean amillion things up home

Eeeeee - I'm sorry that happened
Eeeeee - yer having a laugh
Eeeeee - fuck off man yer lying

 

[muggboots]

Mostly I haven't got a clue what yous do be talking about

Good.
Hew Jackie, keepahad a tha benkers or wa'll get paggered allower for lossin' the . Dinnit hoy them away man woman man, they'll end up hacky as fuck off the clarts. It'll tack yonks to get the clag off.

 

[Hair Flick]

Graffiti over A19?

No the bridge on the Washington Highway heading up from Fatfield to Pensha.