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Re: Local sayings and their origins (if known) « Reply #30 Posted: 28 May 2010 at 11:42 AM »
iI dwile floking suffolk? always thought it was ....cant remember where I thought it originated but didnt connect it with here so much
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Re: Local sayings and their origins (if known) « Reply #31 Posted: 28 May 2010 at 12:05 PM »
If you're dwile flonking all you get is wet or drunk .
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Re: Local sayings and their origins (if known) « Reply #32 Posted: 28 May 2010 at 01:40 PM »
My wife, who is Lowestoft born, ocassionally comes out with what I assume to be a Sufffolk expression i.e. that something is 'funny awful', which always amuses me - the two words to my mind (being a Scot) contradict each other. I can remember my father-in-law saying 'Well I'll go to Norwich!'  when he was astonished at something. He would also make a  remark, when asked where he was going by mother-in-law (and others), that he was 'off to Gunton to get a ball of chalk'!!. There is often reference made to 'Silly Suffolk' but I understand that this is a corruption of 'Soilly Suffolk' - the word 'soilly' meaning 'holy' and refers to the great number of churches within the county. My favourites (again from my wife) have to be - "I doesn't do that" - meaning " I dare not do that" and 'I'm now going' whereas I would say 'I'm going now'!!
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Re: Local sayings and their origins (if known) « Reply #33 Posted: 28 May 2010 at 02:48 PM »
Robbie  - it's pronounced "Dussent".
FC   Dwile Flonking thought to have originated in Beccles/Bungay areas.
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Re: Local sayings and their origins (if known) « Reply #34 Posted: 28 May 2010 at 02:52 PM »
Then there's the Suffolk girl that "shew" me her charms - instead of showed me.
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Re: Local sayings and their origins (if known) « Reply #35 Posted: 28 May 2010 at 03:07 PM »
thank god i flonking essex then mick
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Re: Local sayings and their origins (if known) « Reply #36 Posted: 28 May 2010 at 03:25 PM »
Thanks for the correct pronunciation Freelance!!
Just thought of another one! My wife will say that 'it snew' instead of ' it snowed'!!
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