Thanks, Grumpy. I know what you mean about Yours sincerely but in this case these two were destined to be married which is why I felt it was a rather formally ending especially in the light of the apparently quite personal comments before it.
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Originally posted by grumpy View PostI was always under the impression that “bhoy” was an Irish or Scottish slang spelling of “boy”.
And, incidentally in my day the standard way of ending a letter (unless it was a love letter) was the use of Yours sincerely.
We have tended to forget this as no one writes letters anymore.
It’s sad but true that we are losing the art of letter writing. These days, the only letters I tend to write are formal business type ones (including making a complaint if necessary) and by golly, I can still do a good ‘un!
Bhoy is Irish primarily but in is common use in the west of Scotland particularly in and around the Glasgow area and sadly has sectarian connotations.
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I went for ta-tas (walks) when I was a child. It came from tata. In our part of the world, we didn't say "goodbye" to anyone, it was always ta-ta (Cilla Black would have said tarra! ) So, if you were going out of the house for a bit, you were going for a tata.
I wasn't sure whether it was priCe or PriZe.Janet in Yorkshire
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Since they are from London, could it be Cockney rhyming slang?
My dad used to tell us to put on our titfers - tit for tat means hat.
The boy in the postcard has a large hat. Just a thought.
bcbritGeorge, Uren, Toy - Cornwall. Barrows, Blair, Bowyer, Freeth, Green, Manie - London
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Originally posted by bcbrit View PostSince they are from London, could it be Cockney rhyming slang?
My dad used to tell us to put on our titfers - tit for tat means hat.
The boy in the postcard has a large hat. Just a thought.
bcbrit
(I'm a cold blooded northerner, with a different sense of humour, to go with our different climateJanet in Yorkshire
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Originally posted by cbcarolyn View Postmy Dad used to say are you coming out "tats" - completely forgotten he said that, meaning coming outside I think, like for a walk. I will have to ask him, he probably won't remember now or hear me!Carolyn
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This is all so interesting, all these slightly different 'dialect' uses of tat, tat-ta. titfer etc. But I don't feel any closer to really understanding what she meant - and I probably never will.Main research interests.. CAESAR (Surrey and London), GOODALL (London), SKITTERALL, WOODWARD (Middlesex and London), BARBER (Canterbury, Kent), DRAYSON (Canterbury, Kent), CRISP (Kent) and CHEESEMAN (Kent).
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Originally posted by Gardengirl View PostThis is all so interesting, all these slightly different 'dialect' uses of tat, tat-ta. titfer etc. But I don't feel any closer to really understanding what she meant - and I probably never will.
A lot of humor is contextual, and jokes often lose their laugh as time goes on and the context is lost.
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