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Up Syker
PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 4:07 pm 

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Work a week and play a week. If you were not at work then you must be playing. I remember my parents using this phrase when there was not much work. I wished that did not have to go to school at the time.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 3:42 am 

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My Grandma always used the expression, "playing" meaning not working. She would say that people were playing if the mill was closed for a holiday, e.g. Wakes weeks.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 3:32 pm 

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My Grandfather used to use the word Laking for playing out. At a laking then.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 5:24 pm 
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I remember that Kath. "Stop tha laking abairt"

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Was that a derivation of 'larking'? I remember my grandfather accusing me of 'larking about when I was reading!!
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