Armed police swooped on streets near the centre of Oldham on Tuesday afternoon (August 15) following reports of a man 'with a gun'.
29.07.2023 - 05:31 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
My boyfriend and I only live 20 minutes apart. But whereas I sport the world's broadest Oldham accent, he's Yorkshire through and through.
And it often causes quite the problem. Now we've all heard of the War of the Rosesright?! And we're all very much aware of the bread debate - it's a muffin by the way, teacakes have currants in.
But it really is baffling just how many things get completely lost in translation. It happens quite frequently in our relationship where one word will just throw the other off completely, and of course, always spirals into a debate over who's version of said word is correct - mine, obviously.
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It was happening so often that I started writing them down in my notes and figured it would make a pretty funny story, so here we have it.
Here's a list of all the words my very Yorkshire boyfriend says that I have absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is the most recent conundrum, recently I asked him to put something on the maiden, to which he starred at me blankly and asked 'what's that?!' I mean, the fact I'd handed him a wet towel should have been a clue surely, but this article is about the dialect confusion rather than his lack of common sense. We'll save that for when I have more time...
Safe to say he had absolutely no idea what I was talking about, it turns out in his world, it's called a clothes horse? A what?! Baffled by our discovery we took our findings to our families and lo and behold his (very Yorkshire) family also had no idea what a maiden was, one suggestion was that it was something to do with an oven?!Likewise my family, myself included, had never heard of anything so
Armed police swooped on streets near the centre of Oldham on Tuesday afternoon (August 15) following reports of a man 'with a gun'.
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