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harper | 00:15 Sat 01st Apr 2006 | People & Places
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Can anyone tell me what the standard English is for the Leicester dialect word 'starving' ? Many thanks in advance.
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'Starving' means cold in dialects used in southwest Yorkshire and Derbyshire, so maybe it extended slightly further south into Leicestershire also.
01:24 Sat 01st Apr 2006
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Many thanks kempie. Have a bostin weekend.
01:27 Sat 01st Apr 2006
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'Bostin' - that sounds Black Country to me.
01:45 Sat 01st Apr 2006
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Well i'll go to the top of our stairs.You're roight.I was going round the Wrekin and getting on a line trying to find out what 'starving' meant.I've just looked out of the window and it is as black as the the back of Bill's mothers.I don't think I, and my doolally dog, will be going down the cut tomorrow, I'll take him down the orse rowed instead.,after I have seen to the miskin.Well i'll say goodnight,collect the guzzunda and climb the wooden hill !


Not very good, but it is gone midnight.


I actually hail from Brummagem but I love the Black Country dialect and accent.

02:14 Sat 01st Apr 2006
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Its the worst accent ever ''Black Country''
08:11 Sat 01st Apr 2006
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when I say i'm starving,it means I could eat a scabby dog i'm so hungry!!!
10:27 Sat 01st Apr 2006
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I defy anyone to listen to a black country accent and not smile.It is lovely in an awful kind of a way.Never mistake the Brummagem accent for the black country one.We brummies talk posh!


well i'm off to get me faggots and peas.

10:56 Sat 01st Apr 2006
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dont go there laurence2.


Black Country is unique...the people, the language, the region, the sence of humour..

14:19 Sat 01st Apr 2006
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In North-East Wales (which had connections with the Potteries) starving always meant "cold" - if you were really hungry you were "clemmed".
14:40 Sat 01st Apr 2006
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aren't we lucky in the uk to have such regional variations and accents,it's great !!!
15:10 Sat 01st Apr 2006
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Proper bostin !!
15:17 Sat 01st Apr 2006
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raysparx - That's the very reason that the BBC made Wilfred Pickles a news reader during the war. He was broad Yorkshire and it was reasoned that the Germans probably wouldn't understand it and definitely couldn't imitate it.


15:20 Sat 01st Apr 2006
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i'm a leicester girl and to me 'starving' means you're hungry! Is that ok for you me duck! Love ALL accents!!! Geordie is THE best though!
16:43 Sat 01st Apr 2006
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Funkymoped, I don't know whether you;re a fellow Yam Yam, but thanks for the support xx Laurence2 WHATEVER!!!
14:37 Sun 02nd Apr 2006
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TIPTON born and raised...
17:05 Sun 02nd Apr 2006
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Funkymoped, you're salt of the earth bab!!
19:54 Mon 03rd Apr 2006
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not salt of the earth, just salty old earth....
21:34 Mon 03rd Apr 2006

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