village to youse

V

Village:- TS
In Mbro ‘the Village’ is specifically the south end of Linthorpe Road even though this is now virtually central Middlesbrough. It isn't the site of the original village of Linthorpe which,in fact, was situated on what is now Burlam Road. The 'village' was built as a consequence of Mbro's expansion south in late Victorian times.
when it was known as New Linthorpe

Velvet City:-TS Portrack.
( I don’t know why)

W

Wagga:- H'pool
The Longhill area of Hartlepool. 'Wagga Moon' When the sky lit up from the slag being poured at night.



wagon:- NE
a lorry

Well aye!:-TS
Of course!! (very emphatic) The UpperNE equivalent is Why-aye!

Welshways:- TS only?
The way of carrying a baby in a shawl.

wess:-NY
worse: 'west'=worst

wickens/wicken grass:-NE&NY
couch grass

wicklow:-NE & NY
Inflammation of the finger immediately below the finger nail. In other parts of England is ‘whitlow’. Ours is closer to the original Old Norse version. The ‘quick’ anatomically is specifically the sensitive part of finger or toe immediately below the nail. Kellet notes the North and East Yorkshire word for this is ‘wick’ (The medical term for wicklow is ‘paronychia’)

Wilderness,the:- TS
Stretch of open land, which bordered on the main Mbro to Stockton road. (My uncle had me totally convinced that there were ‘Yorkshire Pudding mines’ there)

with:-NY?
Older speakers sometimes use ‘with’ where Standard English would use ‘by’ e.g. He was hit with a bus

wobby:-TS?
wasp. Reported from Guisborough and Darlington.

woof:-TS,NY
a piece of fish, a fish steak (reported from Hpool and Redcar) ( In Scarborough it is catfish)

woollyback:-TS
rural Clevelander/ North Yorkshire person. My uncle used to call the Mbro to Whitby train ‘the Woollyback Special’. Interestingly this is also used in Liverpool to describe people from outside of the city. There it is often shortened to 'wools'

word:-TS
'ave a werd with yourself!' = Do consider what it is you are saying /doing.

Y

yakker NE&NY
A rural person?. For Teessiders specifically: 'farm-yakkers' in North Yorkshire and 'pit-yakkers' in County Durham. I’ve been told Henry Smith's Grammar School on the Headland in Hpool served a mixture of locals and South Durham collieries circa 1967. The Durham kids were always referred to as " Pit Yakkers". Outside of the school on a nearby bus shelter, someone had scrawled, " Poolies are loonies , but Yakkers are crackers". . I had thought this was a NE townie’s word for a country dweller. However use of the word extends well south of Teesside. In an old jibe, one NY coastal village jeers at Staithes ‘Steers yakkers, flither pickers , herrin’ guts for garters.’ Possibly the collection of flithers (limpets) was considered a lowly occupation by ‘proper’ fishermen?

yam:-NY (South Durham also?)
home homewards 'Ah’m gan yam'. This one phrase from the old Cleveland dialect still seems to have an appeal. It’s almost like ‘an affectionate nod’ to the old way of speaking. The Geordie is 'gan hyem' but in Trimdon,
Sth Durham ,Eveline Johnson notes it as 'gan hyam'. which is closer to Cleveland than Geordie.

yest:-NY
yeast

yoor:-TS
your. (rhymes with sewer). It is also pronounced like this in South Wales.
Similarly 'yoors' for ‘yours’ 'yoorself' for yourself

youse:-TS
you as a plural. Having lost the old second person singular ‘thou’ (thoo) Teesside, like some other areas of the country, seems to have restored the singular/ plural differentiation by employing ‘you’ when addressing one person and ‘youse’ when addressing more than one. In fact it is refined even further ‘ Youse lot’ is used to address a group of more than two or three,( like older English ‘Ye’.) In his book ‘Dialects of England’, Peter Trudgill notes this in Liverpool and Glasgow and he attributes it to Irish immigration. In the Upper North East I have also heard ‘yez’