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Northern Scum said:
Ernie Grimes, he sadly passed away a few years ago but you're spot on with the description. He was well into his 70s and ended every sentence with "cha" so I'm guessing he'd used it all his life which would suggest the word has got a long association with the Preston dialect/vocabulary.

Are there any other words that are unique to just Preston?

It may not be to everyone's liking but for me, anything that gives a sense of identity, uniqueness and character to an areas people is a good thing.
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Some belters on here pal.

http://www.prestonlancs.com/forum/index.php?/topic/806-prestonlancashire-expressions/page__st__20
 
WFG said:
Ernie's son headbutted an Inspector at the last game of the season when we went down at York - he got 6 weeks in the big house
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Rum fuckers that Avenham lot, they were running around with a home made version of a medieval mace one Tuesday night mid 80's when we played Blackpool in The League Cup.
 
CJB said:
Hang on a sec, i thought i was supposed to be stalking you?

Fair play if you can fit me into your already busy stalking schedule.

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*cringe*
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Maybe you could get this fucking imbecile with a "home made mace" and his gang of thugs to inflict serious injury on me Waylon.

Why doesn't it surprise me that you think there is some sort of kudos in this moronic behaviour?

That "mace" could have easily killed somebody, but no doubt there was never any intent to use it, just typical sabre rattling.
 
Joanpne said:
What does that word mean please, I have never seen it before. I am not being sarcastic or rude, its an honest question.
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a·poc·ry·phal

adjective
1.
of doubtful authorship or authenticity.
2.
Ecclesiastical .
a.
( initial capital letter ) of or pertaining to the Apocrypha.
b.
of doubtful sanction; uncanonical.
3.
false; spurious: He told an apocryphal story about the sword, but the truth was later revealed.

Not spurious in this case but meaning no 1 (the most usual meaning of this word)
 
I realise I'm probably a lot older than most of you guys but, in my time in Ribbleton, some twenty odd years from '46 to '75 I never ever heard anyone use the term Cha. Much more common was a greeting such as "alreet Fettler"?
 
royribble said:
I realise I'm probably a lot older than most of you guys but, in my time in Ribbleton, some twenty odd years from '46 to '75 I never ever heard anyone use the term Cha. Much more common was a greeting such as "alreet Fettler"?
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Wandering Walter.....
 
Seriously never heard the term cha. Wandering Walter wasn't the only person to use 'Fettler', it was quite common with many folk particularly a guy who was MD at Preston Paints, one Bob Billington....wonder what happened to him? He was/is a great character, though I've not seen him for years, anybody know if he is still with us? He smoked like the proverbial back then.
 
royribble said:
Seriously never heard the term cha. Wandering Walter wasn't the only person to use 'Fettler', it was quite common with many folk particularly a guy who was MD at Preston Paints, one Bob Billington....wonder what happened to him? He was/is a great character, though I've not seen him for years, anybody know if he is still with us? He smoked like the proverbial back then.
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Never heard of him cha.
 
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