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Rhu is Now't (naught still used?) As in It's now't to do with me! { It's nothing to do with me- or it not my doing..} My parent said naught as Nah't the aught sounding like -- "you really aughta try it.."
i have seen several films set in Lancashire-- most in this country come complete with subtitles.. but i find they are not needed. Kestrel for Knave was a favorite from long, long ago..
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Yes, Helen, both now't and ow't are in use round here - pronounced as they are spelt here.
It isn't quite so common among the youngsters - but even they do use it a bit. The older folk use the expression exclusively, especially in the villages.
Incidentally, I knew that I was accepted in my village, even though I'm an off-comer, when one or two of the locals, perhaps some ten years younger than I, called me, "fayther!" - an ironic, but affectionate term.
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Interesting that this expression also exists in German: Die Schokolade ist alle, meaning that the chocolate is all gone! Although it's slang here too. and it would be a catastrophe if the chocolate was really all gone!! 
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Yes, Max, the Pennsylvania Dutch language which is still spoken (by fewer people every year) is a low-German dialect. There is also the peculiar form of English spoken in Dutch areas of Pennsylvania (chiefly Lancaster and Berks Counties) which is heavily influenced by Germanic word order and other syntactical features, also peculiar words deriving from German. Perhaps the best known example of PA Dutch-English is a line from a Broadway show, "Throw Mama from the train a kiss." In our family, the example usually given is "Throw the cow over the fence some hay," and "Outen the light."
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I heard "Put the out on the light" in Lancaster/Lidditz area. rather than "outen the light.
On English dialect subject : Still use Anyroad for Anyway?
I heard it around my grandparents' home.
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anyroad-- yes-- never thought about it.. but i use it all the time..
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Anyroad sounds Scouse or Lancastrian to me.Rhuby?
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Anyroad sounds Scouse or Lancastrian to me.
Fairly common throughout UK, but suggests Birmingham to me, and possibly futher north. Often said as "anyroad up".
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Not certain where "anyroad" originates, except that it is definitely a Northern expression - Yorks and Lancs, rather than Scouse or Geordie, I think.
But I've heard it in all parts of the land and in every conceivable accent over the past few years. In my youth, it was the stereotypical sort of speech from a "stage northerner."
I found myself using another odd dialect phrase the other day to describe a neighbours son who has a very high opinion of his own abilities which is, unfortunately, not borne out by his actual performance. When my wife retailed the latest assininity of this young man, I retorted, "Oh, well, what do you expect - he's all mouth and trousers."
Now, I have not the slightest idea of its provenance, but this was a common expression in the part of London where I grew up. I've never heard it used outside the Metropolis. Is anyone else familiar with it?
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