Beesman
Cornwall |
16 of 36
Wed 21st Nov 2012 10:06pm
Just thought of a unique Coventry phrase that I used on this forum the other day!!... 'Come on The Old Five!' |
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Baz
Coventry |
17 of 36
Fri 24th May 2013 10:02pm
I was speaking to a lovely lady today about the city's history, and she said that years ago, anyone that was born within the city walls, was said to have had a button in their cap. Has anyone else heard that saying? Always looking forward to looking at the past.
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gangan
Stockton, Southam |
18 of 36
Wed 17th Jul 2013 12:16pm
Isn't "True as Coventry Blue" a unique Coventry phrase. I believe it was to do with colour in old time weaving. Stand to be corrected on that one though. |
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Disorganised1
Coventry |
19 of 36
Wed 17th Jul 2013 3:25pm
True as Coventry blue relates to the colour fast Coventry Blue, The making of this blue was a guild secret passed from master to apprentice in the dyers guild. This was such a well kept secret that today nobody knows how Coventry blue was made, or even what shade it was. |
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TonyS
Coventry |
20 of 36
Thu 9th Jan 2014 3:45pm
An interesting article has just appeared in the Coventry Telegraph relating to the top 40 "unique" Coventry words & phrases - link |
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Old Lincolnian
Coventry |
21 of 36
Tue 14th Jan 2014 5:06pm
I've just been browsing the list of top 40 "unique" Coventry words & phrases in the Coventry Telegraph list. I'm not sure how accurate it is because I grew up speaking over half the words on it and I was in my twenties before I came down here. I suspect that many of what we think of as local words got spread by soldiers during the war and people who moved around for work so became much more widespread and their origin is very difficult to track down.
Obviously words like Beduth will be truly local as well as words where the local accent plays an important part in the pronunciation. |
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Prof
Gloucester |
22 of 36
Tue 2nd Sep 2014 10:22pm
I had forgotten 'jetty' as an alternative to the usual 'entry' in Coventry but I remember it now. Strange in as landlocked a place as Coventry is! |
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DBC
Nottinghamshire Thread starter
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23 of 36
Fri 5th Sep 2014 3:20pm
I have just been reading the Penguin "Famous Trials" book which deals with the 1939 IRA bomb attack in Coventry. I came across this during the article:-
"He returned at ten-past one and left the cycle in the 'jetty' (as Coventry oddly calls its back lanes) behind the house."
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Primrose
USA |
24 of 36
Fri 5th Sep 2014 10:10pm
I asked my mother, a lifelong Coventrian, about the terms entry and jetty and, to her mind, the terms are interchangeable and don't distinguish between different types of passageway. I remember my dad saying jetty slightly more often than entry. |
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David H
Lancashire |
25 of 36
Sat 6th Sep 2014 9:16pm
As children we always used the term "entry" but my mother, born in Foleshill tended to use the word "jitty". She did not use the word jetty which is defined broadly as a structure jutting out into water. Jitty is defined in "Wiktionary" as "the narrow passage between rows of terraced houses or a fenced or hedged pathway linking two areas of a village". Jitty not jetty. |
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paulguy |
26 of 36
Sun 10th May 2015 8:38pm
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Mick Strong
Coventry |
27 of 36
Sun 12th Feb 2023 9:55am
Another old topic that caught my eye.
Two that spring to mind for me are...
When asking my dad where he was going, his reply was always "Nutting down the Rudge". Dad was born in Coventry and never lived anywhere else, so I presume the "Rudge" is somewhere local?
The phrase I always remember my mum saying was when the sky was full of dark rain clouds, she would say "It's black over Bill's mother's". Always wondered whom Bill was.
I am sure there shall be more that I shall remember now that my mind is in gear! Mick Strong
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Midland Red
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28 of 36
Sun 12th Feb 2023 10:00am
For the first one, I thought you were going to say "There and back, to see how far it is". |
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Mick Strong
Coventry |
29 of 36
Sun 12th Feb 2023 10:13am
Another one of my dad's was "Going to see a man about a dog". Mick Strong
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Helen F
Warrington |
30 of 36
Sun 12th Feb 2023 12:02pm
One of my Dad's favourites when we were kids was 'belt up in the back!' Only some of the time was he talking about the seat belts. Why it meant 'shut up' I'm not sure. |
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