My mother was born and brought up in a wild part of Leicestershire - notably Whitwick (City of Dan) where there were reckoned to be more pubs than people. She used expressions that I haven't heard anywhere else, and I wish that I could remember more of them.
'As leve' - meaning 'rather' in e.g. 'he'd rather kick you than look at you' would be "e'd as leve kick yer as look at yer". The only place that I've seen this written is in Chaucer's 'Nun's Priest's Tale'.
And, she would use the word 'ormin' to mean clumsy or uncoordinated e.g. 'He's a big, clumsy youth' would be "'e's an ormin gret bugga"
Last edited by: Haywain on Wed 22 Nov 17 at 14:27
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