Lancashire Dialect Phrases Translated

Got friends or relatives from Lancashire? Find that they run words together in unfathomable ways? Pronounce some words differently to you?
Don't panic, this easy guide to several common Lancastrian phrases and their translations to the Queen's English will be a Godsend to you.
Hope you enjoy.

[@bobbieboothroyd8531]

its nice to see someone teaching plain English for once

[@jiooki-lt9id]

And in normal speed

[@jadefoster7284]

Never realised how heavy my accent is till I watched this and realised I say almost every single phrase on a regular basis. Very good video

[@creature2479]

Haha same

[@galenwolf]

I now understand why none of my online mates in the US can understand a word a fuckin say.....

[@tintintin7000]

I really dont get it hhhhhhh i am not english but i like english

[@amwartwork]

theres no one as genuine and down to earth as a common norther in england.

[@luciesimackova4805]

agree I love this accent

[@charlottewebster4233]

The Lanky dialect is varied but so unique you can sometimes pin it down within a few miles give or take. I'm from East Lancs and the changes are subtle but distinctive enough I think only those from the same area will even notice it. Hyndburn and Blackburn areas tends to be more old fashioned with lots of "D" and "T" sounds i.e. "Gizzit" "Gedditeeeten" "Geddoffit / Geedehduvvitd" and there's a lot of words that end with a harsh I sound as in "Shut thi gob" and "Sithee" or "Asthi' sin'?" Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale heading more towards Yorkshire sort of way tend to throw in the "R" and "Z" sounds for "Gerroff" "Purritt" and "Lerrit" and they don't catch the bus or use stairs. They "Catch us buzz" and use the "Stay-us" 😂😂

[@charlottewebster4233]

Years ago I was in Turkey with a friend and we'd got a couple of horses from a nearby ranch, went trail riding and ended up on the arse end of a mountain somewhere. Found a small hamlet type place so stopped to give the horses a rest, have some shade and a drink etc. Out of nowhere this bloke's voice in a very familiar accent went “Nah then.. where are you from? I'd know that accent anywhere” He lived literally two mins walk away from where I grew up and used to play football with my Dad 😲

[@yvonneallen7227]

I,m from owdham ( oldham ) . Live 8 miles from Manchester, different accent , 4 miles from saddleworth different accent . I love all Northern accents . Eevent yorkshires , 😘 . Northerners erl look afta yer x

[@secretgardentribe9220]

Crazy small world

[@faithrich6374]

yep agree with that, I'm from Accy. Haven't lived there in 20 years, but I haven't lost the dialect and accent

[@frankh2811]

What’s the bloke with the suit saying?

[@harlxy9530]

Some times I do not realise how we sound to outsiders lol

[@matthewwhite7426]

Lol

[@paulsmith2823]

Yeah I'm a cockney that just moved to Lancashire 3 weeks ago and I cant understand no1 here

[@jayloo]

Hahaha! I'm American but been here for 12 years, never heard Lancashire before this. If I don't watch the phonetic spelling I understand that guy! But he's talking slow, o know if i went up there I'd be lost.

[@paulsmith2823]

@@lottiepye6082 lol nice 1 i love essex not as good as London but still good ,me personally no hate or disrespect to the northerners in this comment section ,but I feel like I'm in another country up here in Blackpool with the language barrier ha ha.and they say northerners are more friendly I'm not seeing that I'm seeing the opposite and I've only been here a short time 4 months blud ,my mum and dad moved us here so I had no choice but to go to Lancashire innit.

[@paulsmith2823]

@@lottiepye6082 thanks appreciate that Blackpool looks rough all the building are derelict and old and the beach is tacky I could imagine day out in Blackpool a night out drinking but living here is depressing me ,I'll check out Lancaster and Preston I really miss London and the north is like a different country I cant seem to get used to it .plus I dont have any friends here ovbisly so that makes it worse

[@Dalroi1]

I can understand all of this if I turn away from the screen and just listen, but seeing the 'subtitles' throws me :-) Yes, I grew up in that region.

[@pringleaddict5827]

Same here mate ahah

[@stephanevu-hoang1014]

Same lol

[@normaforsyth7950]

Just what I said. Its almost all regular common English words, its just said as if its one or two words as opposed to a sentence. Lol. Like, "Purimineer" is just "put them in here." A sentence smashed into one word. :)

[@leachy_]

I love how he changes it from Lancashire to posh. Not even from Lancashire to regular English, just posh.

[@stephanevu-hoang1014]

I sometimes struggled with the posh one lol, if it wasn't for the subtitles, I'd have got what the Lanc said.

[@staffh3815]

I'm from Wigan, understood every word ,very good

[@rdouthwaite]

I'm from Yorkshire and understood them all perfectly. Probably due to all the Lancastrians in Emmerdale 😉😆

[@sgtraytango]

Birmingham, here. Also understood. Probably because we share similar phrases.

[@stephenmontgomery8530]

As a lancashire lad you got that spot on . Gerrim and tek em then are 2 phrases that come to mind

[@faithrich6374]

me and thee was one my grandad used to use very often and alright cock?

[@danieloliver4558]

There was 1 or 2 I missed but Lancashire is a massive county so terms you may find in my native Bolton are not in other town and visa versa

[@darkangelw8472]

This accent got me, when talking to a lady on the phone, customer service, so I had my English husband to talk to her instead, cos I couldn't understand her. I'm Swedish lol 😂 but that was some years ago now, my English understanding of the northern accents have become a lot better

[@ianaldridge1702]

So funny lancashire people the friendliest folk in the world.

[@creature2479]

Thanks?

[@jasonjames6870]

Yes we are

[@bics-tc8vr]

I do try 👍

[@jtnorth6699]

Absolutely perfect for blackburn with darwen ahahahah, bang on!

[@Isabel-wf6ho]

omg im from blackburn

[@Jon3sy1990]

@@Isabel-wf6ho snap

[@pringleaddict5827]

Not at all lmao , you joking?

[@captainkenzie6873]

@@pringleaddict5827 Are you posh or what?

[@m.g.540]

I live in the USA yet i understood all of it, growing up in Lancashire UK just might have helped, and my father talked liked that which required me to translate for the Yanks sometimes.

[@stealthyguy1784]

What town did you grow up in bud?

[@normaforsyth7950]

I'm American too and I understood it just fine - without the odd spelling of what he was saying. Reading: "Thisulperes onthichest" will really screw you up. "This will put hairs on the chest" is clear if you just listen for the jist of the statement without trying to pick it apart. :) I just finished a "Mackem" (Sunderland) video and THAT is a different language entirely. Lol.

[@bjorntoulouse7523]

On going to the bar, I asked my mate from Wigan what he wanted to drink. I was somewhat baffled when he replied “a pint of bitter and a cork”

[@andypdq]

I used to travel the north of England for work, the thing I noticed which was exclusive to Lancashire, was the use of the phrase "Do you not". Where most every other English person would say for instance "Don't you think this is good?" Lancastrians would say "Do you not think this is good?"

[@stephanevu-hoang1014]

I'm no Lanc but born n raised in Manchester and I definitely say do you not.

[@secretgardentribe9220]

Manchester is in Lancashire

[@stephanevu-hoang1014]

@@secretgardentribe9220 Not really geographically speaking, Cheshire (Stockport), Greater Manchester and Derbyshire (Buxton), Bolton (Lancashire). There's a notable difference in accent BTW.

[@georgina3358]

I say do you not and I'm not from Lancashire. I'm from the north, though

[@stevecooper3010]

True

[@forlornhope7121]

My family came to Sth Australia about four generations ago. Between English farmers and Cornish miners, this region on York Peninsula had a pretty English sounding accent. I got all those. But for the word eggwap. And most of those expressions still float around the people born before the 80's.

[@veronicawilliams7427]

Eeeyh -up - move or shift thee-selves it generallly meant.

[@Lancastrian501]

Pendle Hill in the background?

[@johnnycolon3208]

Yep

[@samdunne1583]

I were gonna say same thing!

[@wetcardie66]

@@samdunne1583 lukes lahk a street in nelson IMHO

[@khungaree]

Its Maurice St, Nelson. I used to walk to Lomeshaye school very close by in the 60s. "Buzz" (bus) is more Preston/Blackburn I think. Haven't lived there in 45 years, never forgotten. " 'snot worritwoztho azzatown". Great countryside all around. Always remember a phrase "its neither use nor ornament".

[@wetcardie66]

lomeshaye pronouced lom-a-sha

[@jakegreen1999]

Just realised I moved out of Lancashire a long time ago but still phrase like this 😅

[@Gogetemscoobie]

Very well done, so many try northern accents and fail miserably.

[@katyhughes1639]

I don’t understand the man in the suit Traditional Lancashire man sounds better

[@texastea5686]

Love love love listening to these accent videos 🙌

[@alisonholland7531]

Fookin brilliant 😂 I'm a Lancashire lass but ended up in Oz in 1970 haven't been home since and i still understand these blokes perfectly 😂

[@usmansabir1407]

My English is not terrible. Grew up learning it throughout my school years. Different accents still throw me off a bit. Cockney more than others. Been living in London for 18 years, moving to Lancashire in couple of months (probably Preston or Blackburn) and I didn't understand any of the phrases in this video. My God This is gonna be a struggle. Bracing myself.

[@peterfoster8004]

Tha'll be oreet. (You'll be OK) We don't speak like that all the time.😀

[@usmansabir1407]

@@peterfoster8004 I hope so :) . For whatever reason I read your reply in my bastardised and terrible Lancashire accent imitation ? Well as long as I understand somewhat, I will get the hang of it eventually. Sure as hell i won't be able to speak like that in this lifetime 🙂

[@faithrich6374]

tha'll be reet

[@amwartwork]

those german subtitles wer reyt good a tell thi LMFAO

[@chrispbacon3042]

The sub titles were very funny.

[@neilmackinnon3371]

Outstanding!

[@Fishsta]

Thanks Neil, glad you enjoyed it!

[@lyndadavies7129]

Got them all....a true Lancashire lass me 😁

[@deronmays2102]

I’m from Appalachia region of Kentucky in the U.S. and we have our own unique accent. I would have difficulty communicating in this part of England if I were to visit, but likewise they would most likely have a difficult time understanding my accent as well.

[@secretgardentribe9220]

Well done Fishwick!

[@elenayil86]

İ can’t imagine this situation in Russian. Well we have some type of people who cannot articulate right but this ... How do you understand each other? Nice video. 😄👍👍👍

[@sophieboydell2683]

haven't seen my dad in a couple of months so im watching this to remind me of him i didn't even realise how much i sound like this too lol

[@Fishsta]

Likewise, hope yours is well x

[@sophieboydell2683]

@@Fishsta tyvm, hope yours is too x

[@karelpeeters1994]

The last one beat them all! Even me, being a foreigner, I understood it.

[@dandimmock6096]

Loving this Ian haha

[@pamelaanders6286]

I'd love a Wigan Council House, thanks.

[@marksadventures3889]

Aye thy noz em all lad. It's reet. Howdo from Barlick

[@jiooki-lt9id]

I❤it 😂 I even wish that he wouldn't stop I hope there was more of it 😂

[@Robbie_27]

I grew up in Lancashire oswaldtwislte, I remember people talking like this all the time but now I hardly hear it now

[@stephanevu-hoang1014]

That's why you should never stick subtitles, it was clear to me.

[@jocktamson6493]

I agree, I understood bloke, but after a while it got oying! Wit subtitles!

[@rebeccajackson9844]

56 Upholland Rd, Mum got every one but as a kid, I moved when I was little, I missed out on one! Gutted

[@bics-tc8vr]

I'm born and bred in Lancashire as are my kids. I told my daughter to "pop th kettle on"............ She told me i should have said "the" i was hurt and offended........i told her to tell me what she said again and i filmed her on my phone...... She said it's "put the kettle on, the way you say it is stupid" to say i was hurt is an understatement 😢

[@jitgreen8366]

Sounds almost like a dialect from rural Alabama or Georgia only accent is a helluva lot different y’all.

[@Lee-eb8ze]

So this is what my ancestors sound like.

[@veronicawilliams7427]

My paternal grandfather only spokle Lancashire dialect. so was brought up with it.he came from Chorley and my grandmother came from Wigan. but came to another Lancashire town looking for work.and started his own business, making clogs for the workers n the factories. and my grandmothers brothers came tothem after WW1. When I used to go to visit my great Uncle Sam in Wigan and knocked on the door he would come and Aaayyyh little lass cum on in doest thee want a cuppa tay and a jam buttie. My Maternal Family came fropm North Lancashire and prior to that further North. and they where stonemasons and Mill architects and a lot of buil;dings still around that they builty. the largest of them Mills where cotton goods where made. so we are very diverse with the way they spoke.

[@NotMySTARWARS]

hehe good stuff

[@Shadowpixy]

I watched this because I also watch a KZbin channel by Thoughty2, and I wondered how accurate his accent is. He speaks, in my experience, more like an east end Londoner then from where it it says he is in his biography. I could be 100% off-base because I am not even in Britain, in fact I am in Alaska, USA, but I have always loved lots of British things, and British comedy, British humor, British food, British sci-fi like Doctor Who, and just in my limited experience, my KZbin guy does not sound anything like this video.

[@Fishsta]

I'm subscribed to Thoughty2 too, never looked where he's from!

[@Shadowpixy]

@@Fishsta the biography I found on google says he’s from Lancashire; but he is either very well practiced to have more “proper,” English or that isn’t accurate. He says V or F for TH like “his brover kicked him in the shins;” or “the free of them rowed the boat to safety.” I don’t know what to make of it.

[@Fishsta]

@@Shadowpixy probably believes that Received Pronounciation (the "newsreader" accent) will make his videos more understandable to more people. I just find it too much effort lol

[@Shadowpixy]

@@Fishsta another odd British thing I’ve noticed is that, especially men, seem to do this thing where they purse their upper lip over their teeth when they’re speaking. Like Robin Leach. There’s another channel, Lost in the Pond, that I watch, and a few others, who do this also. I can say I don’t believe I’ve seen anyone of another country do this. It seems to be exclusively British men. And the head tilt. What’s with the head tilt? If you take a look at these channels, you’ll see what I mean. I don’t know if it’s a cultural or regional thing but I’ve never seen anyone else do it. 😁😂

[@robertwright7937]

I've always wanted to get Baked in Alaska....😄👍

[@cecilformby894]

Now I know why despite being slightly drunk I couldn't quite understand the people in the Lancashire pub back in 1988.

[@lordvlygar2963]

It's so weird how American the Lancaster accent sounds. It's like American English with the nouns and verbs given a cockney treatment.

[@lordvlygar2963]

@lllllll Obviously not the pies shirt guy. The blazer guy is very close to American.

[@captainkenzie6873]

@@lordvlygar2963 That's southern mate

[@captainkenzie6873]

@lllllll Yeah

[@magnusrawstron9986]

Is that Church near accrington?

[@flokivilgerarson4500]

Ovayonda - Over There

[@laurasmith14]

If I wasn’t reading the rubbish underneath. I could understand everything the Lancashire man said. I wonder how much it has changed since the 19th century! This is where part of my family hails from. What towns does Lancashire include? My great grandfather mention something about Gorton in his family autobiography, Kenyon Lane, Church Road, Earlestown….

[@Fishsta]

Your best bet is to go to the Gazetteer of British Place Names and search Lancashire, it should show you the whole county boundaries, but it'll include towns and cities like Warrington, Wigan, Liverpool, Barrow, Manchester, Preston, Chorley, Blackburn, Bolton, Blackpool, Southport etc.

[@a40a40]

Brilliant!😂

[@amwartwork]

im from bolton. moved to wotton under edge in 2016, the bristol. now newnham on severn. the amount of times ive had to repeat myself is unreal. Try orderin a pint of thatchers 'AZE from' bar. in bristol. Worts daart my lerrv? Owww you mean heyyz. YES Ayyyyz luv

[@ashleystewart8393]

Am same from rochdale and live down south itsbloody hard to order anything

[@StevenSmethurst]

Can't beat a pint o thatchers from ye olde man and scythe in bolton

[@danieloliver4558]

I'm from Horwich but live in Reading now. My dad lives in Gloucester.... small world

[@danieloliver4558]

@@StevenSmethurst it's haunted!!!

[@maxbacon4828]

Gradely lad!.

[@MrDavidznuff]

Have lived in England for 2 years, in wiltshire. Must say it wasn't easy to understand since english isn't my first language but, man, nothing like this. 😅😅😅

[@titalondonmrsbillskitchen1672]

New sub

[@bennickss]

I don’t live in Lancashire (75 miles south of it, to be factual) but half of me blood is from Preston and I understood most of this before the translation into poshy speak

[@mrdarren1045]

Well i'm in Preston and this was every day speak to me lol

[@lindasolomon4235]

Originally from Preston. Understood most.

[@keithsanders6554]

As a Cheshireman I understood 'em all.

[@lisawright63]

My favourite sayin.... isiteckerslike , givower

[@Spendomaniac]

Givo'er

[@robin2012ism]

Jane Horrock's "Bubble" accent led me here.

[@RKWWWW]

I'm here because I'm a George Formby fan.

[@titalondonmrsbillskitchen1672]

Pure pressie lass

[@Acadian.FrenchFry]

Wondering if my ancestors sounded like this. My Nana's family came from Ditton Lancashire in the 1700's. Do you think they would have sounded like this?

[@simonwilson4166]

Ditton was part of historical Lancashire. It's all changed now, it's in Merseyside so try a Scouse accent but I don't know what it sounded like back then as I wasn't there 🙄

[@Fishsta]

@@simonwilson4166 Merseyside isn't a county, it's a Unitary Authority contained entirely within Lancashire.

[@Acadian.FrenchFry]

@@simonwilson4166 Thanks! My family ran the merchant ships from Liverpool to the US before it was the US. Their surname is Rathbone, but in our family genealogy it says they came from Ditton Lancashire then moved to New Jersey and actually ended up fighting in the Revolutionary war against England. Anyway, I'm just curious what they sounded like.

[@iloveanimals1662]

@@Acadian.FrenchFry Rathbone is a common name round here. Rathbones make lovely bread😋

[@Acadian.FrenchFry]

@@iloveanimals1662 Do they? Haha well that makes sense we love bread! My Nana was actually a well known cook in our area and taught classes (especially baking). She made a recipe book just for the family, we all have a copy. Her baked goods are the best.

[@susanelliott1]

I don’t speak like that, do I? 🤔🤔🤔🤔 Gerrit spent. Tha dont pu pockets I shraads!! As my Burnley Grandad used to say xxxxxxx

[@brad7943]

As a leyther I love this

[@tobyspeakman7688]

Up the leigh

[@suzukiadventure8565]

Liking the monkey island map screen theme at the end.

[@Fishsta]

Well spotted, hoping that wasn't the only part of the video you liked!

[@suzukiadventure8565]

@@Fishsta being an Accrington lad i enjoyed most of it.

[@fishum6483]

The only argument I'd have with this is that all the "t"s are pronounced, which is very rare in Lancashire, most "t"s are silent

[@Fishsta]

I think it very much depends on the sentence structure, I've always had a gripe about people saying "On t'internet" (as Peter Kay used that in one of his stand up DVDs), when we all know it should be "on th'internet" or "on 'internet". A lot of variation from town to town too.

[@stevecooper3010]

Well the Ts are pronounced. For instance It's next t telly T is short for" to the" The and to is always abbreviated in a sentence with each other to the same syllable Even to this day I find I write as I speak, which when written you can see the shortening of a sentence happening to which you have to go back and re write it Just as aside note Having lived around Nordic people The English pronunciations of word by Nords is so similar the accent of of northern England that the Nords accent blends with the northern English accent ,must be the vowels.

[@HGates-hl4eq]

After doing research I have found that my ancestors come from here. Funny that we still use these phrases in America. Lol

[@teo4609]

Is that english or german?

[@janetmcneice6246]

I've lived in Yorkshire all my life but I can tell what he's saying I think Lancashire dialect sounds older like a grandad talking whereas Yorkshire is mostly swearing and complaining 🤣🤬

[@Lancastrian501]

I'm fray Clithera. Understood just abaht all've it part fray "eggwap". That's a new'un on me.

[@Yoshologist]

Im from blackpool and i dont understand a decent amount of what hes saying

[@toastracktramcar]

I'm from Blackpool and I understand all of it. All depends on your family background and what you're familiar with I guess.

[@creature2479]

I live in Lancaster (Northern Lancashire) and I understand it (because I speak like it) but the subtitles made me so confused lol

[@obluquy7852]

@@creature2479 same lol think Lancaster is a bit softer though

[@threesixfiveart563]

Hahahahahahahahahaha ! This is lovely.

[@TheUnavator]

This is so true lol

[@LeeRaldar]

Difficult to understand the guy doing the translation lol.

[@creature2479]

Can understand the guy doing the translation less that the northern guy, but that's probably because I'm about as northern as they come

[@bensgoog]

@@creature2479 oh yeah if youre all that northern tell me what street the northern guy is stood on mate

[@johnnycolon3208]

@@bensgoog Maurice St, Nelson, Lancs

[@msbee7869]

Reetgud thatwerr! Me mam wud be smy-lin’ she wud. Eee-aye!

[@charlottewebster4233]

Now that's Lanky 😅 "Eeeeh tha's not wrong me owd fettler! It'll be reet just summat n nowt"

[@neilpye6089]

I get the council house then

[@rickyboy698]

Here's one ..... "There's Nowt Wrong Wi' Gradly Folk!!!"

[@janneaufire4762]

So similar to me grandmum and granddad. "Th'art a gradely wench"!

[@mrbigblackboots1788]

Yaaaaaaay. I can get a wigan council house

[@susanelliott1]

What about the old Burnley saying this I used to say in the 70’s. I’m agate!!!! I’m agate. Where the heck is that from???? Anyone confused I’m agate means I said

[@Wickedpissah41]

Another burnley saying ' oining' ... meaning bothering , annoying , ....mum tell him to stop oining me lol , what is mythering in manchester

[@jocktamson6493]

Whas about ecky thump them? Not to mention, put wood int ‘oll, ba’ gum it’s parkey in’t ‘ere in’t it!

[@anth5122]

A bart rite .. I’m from Wigan me 😂

[@Fishsta]

A true Lancashire town! None of this "Greater Manchester" rubbish!

[@motormouthalmighty]

orrreeeet kokkah!owe arrr ya?- good heavens!I never thought that.anything but that!(Charles Laughton!1957!witness for the prosecution!)kudd yer lend uzz a tenna pat?-

[@jackelveyder]

Blackburn to Bolton way haha

[@Canthatcrazy]

Fucking hell, I talk like this and I even struggled with some 😂😂😂😂

[@paulduckworth316]

🤣🤣👏👏

[@futdashukup]

Ahm clemt watchin this

[@DavidPotter-hd9gm]

Ey up lad it's t s tidy like

[@louisa1291]

It's missing " I were agate"

[@derbylied9553]

Not all English in England sounds the same we have over 200 dialects/accents.

[@PotentiallyAndy]

I can’t understand what the guy on the suit is saying ;) Live in Illinois, but born in Bolton… no that’s not Greater Manchester, we maintain it’s Lancashire

[@daveunbelievable6313]

I'm from Yorkshire, understand most of this, not that different

[@redpilllogic6169]

Mostly Wigan sayings these

[@jameswilkinson2144]

Pendul 'ill int backrownd

[@staffh3815]

Put wood inth ole

[@Fishsta]

Shouted most often in amateur Rugby League changing rooms in Winter!

[@seankayll9017]

Put wood i'th oil!

[@titalondonmrsbillskitchen1672]

😅😅😅

[@robertwright7937]

I gorrallevem. Where's me Ous? I'm not livin in tha Wigin tho. I's a Yicker.

[@alanastasia1610]

All wigan mostly this

[@LocalMercenary]

I hate the fact that I understand Half of it already.