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The 21 words and phrases you’ll only know if you’re from Yorkshire
We asked you for your favourite words and sayings - here they are
Have you ever had to bail on a night out because you're jiggered, or been told to stop chelpin' because you're doing someone's head in?
Local dialect is still very much alive - even if some recent studies found that some words and phrases are dying out amongst the younger generations.
But, unless you know what's actually being said it can sometimes seem like a load of indecipherable gibberish.
On The Hoot Leeds Facebook page a while back, we asked our readers for some of their favourite sayings and phrases from Leeds.
Here are our picks of some of the best, in honour of Yorkshire Day...
Summat
Meaning: something.
Example: I need summat to do at the weekend.
Sithee / Sithi
Meaning: goodbye, see you later, contraction of ‘See Thee’.
Example: Aye lad, Sithee!
Reet
Meaning: right or very.
Example: We had a reet good night.
Misen
Meaning: myself.
Example: I don’t like cricket much mi’sen.
Bob into
Meaning: To go into
Example: Just gonna bob int' shop - do you want owt?
Radged
Meaning: angry.
Example: He were radged about his shed being broken into.
Ere mush
Meaning: Hiya, love
Example: Ere mush, how's you?
Tin Tin Tin
Meaning: ‘t’in’t in’t tin.. as in “It isn’t in the tin”
Ketty
Meaning: nasty or rancid, referring to raw meat, offal or rubbish. From Icelandic or Swedish origin.
Example: We can’t eat this chicken, it’s ketty
Bottle job
Meaning: Someone who backs out when the pressure is too much
Example: What a bottle job, he couldn't hack it
Jiggered
Meaning: Exhausted or broken
Example: I'm proper jiggered, gonna have to give tonight a miss mate.
Spogs
Meaning: Sweets
Example: Be good and I'll get you some spoggs later
Laik
Meaning: To play
Example: We've come to see if Kelly's laikin' out?
Ginnel
Meaning: Narrow alleyway, passage
Example: He just run down that there ginnel, I saw him a minute ago
Ey up
Meaning: ‘watch out’, ‘be careful’, or to be used as a greeting, especially when seeing someone/something you weren’t expected.
Example: Ey up lad! Not seen you in ages.
Capt
Meaning: Shocked, surprised
Example: You got me a present? I'm capt!
Buffet
Meaning: Stool / footstool (pronounced like "tuffet")
Example: Get your feet off that buffet!
Kegs
Meaning: Trousers
Example: 'Ere, 'ave you seen my kegs about?
Chelpin’
Meaning: talking.
Example: Stop chelpin’ and get some work done.
Ding
Meaning: to hit heavily, to knock.
Example: I dinged my car door on the wall getting out earlier. Gutted!
Dollop
Meaning: a lump of something, usually food.
Example: Can I have a dollop of mash wi me pie please?
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Turnstile to play their only UK headline show this year at Halifax Piece Hall
Clementine Hall
Turnstile will headline the Halifax Piece Hall this summer, their only UK headline show.
The Grammy-winning hardcore group have just announced a very special show at historic venue the Halifax Piece Hall.
As part of the venue's huge summer season, Turnstile will take to the stage on Wednesday 26 August marking a whopping 41 shows at the Piece Hall's calendar so far.
The group pulled huge crowds at Glastonbury festival last year and scooped up two Grammy Awards earlier this month, using their platform to thank fans who "swung in the dark" with them.
Nicky Chance-Thompson MBE DL FRSA, CEO of The Piece Hall Trust, says: “2026 will see Turnstile playing at some of the world’s most iconic festivals and then here in Halifax at UK’s most iconic heritage venue.”
“We always aim to deliver for the full spectrum of music lovers in Calderdale and knowing how passionate our rock and metal community is, this gig will be off the scale – truly unmissable!”
Alongside Turnstile, Halifax Piece Hall will welcome the likes of Hollywood Vampires, Paul Weller, Bowling For Soup, Skunk Anansie, Garbage, Empire of the Sun, Sex Pistols, Mcfly, CMAT and Jimmy Eat World this summer. What a season it's going to be.
Baltimore’s hardcore heroes will head to West Yorkshire to play TK Maxx presents Live at The Piece Hall on Wednesday August 26.
Tickets go on sale this Friday 27 February at 10am, and you can get your tickets here.
Find out more about what's going on at the Halifax Piece Hall this summer here.
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This iconic Leeds pub is selling 25p pints for the weekend alongside a 70’s-inspired menu
Clementine Hall
Whitelock's Ale House in Leeds are turning back the clocks for four days only.
Ever fancied giving time travel a go? Well now's your chance, as a historic Leeds pub are looking back to time gone by for the weekend.
Whitelock's Ale House are collaborating with Double Diamond beer, an iconic British pale ale made popular in the 70's and now somewhat having a resurgence.
From this Thursday 26 February until Sunday 1 March 2026, pints of Double Diamond will be available for just 25p.
Yep, you can't even get a Freddo for 25p these days let alone a cold, refreshing pint.
Guests will be able to grab their first pint of Double Diamond for 25p along with a nostalgic specials menu from the Whitelock's kitchen.
And if you know anything about their food, it's always class so this specials menu will be absolutely no exception.
The specials menu includes a french onion quiche, a coronation chicken sandwich, gammon, pineapple, egg and chips and to top it all off, a raspberry Swiss roll with custard.
You can get three courses for just £30 and you can either pre-order or order individually when you're there.
This is set to be a real blast from the past, so rally your mates together and prepare for a trip down memory lane and for what could be the cheapest pint of your life.
You can find out more and book your table at Whitelock's Ale House here.
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Georgina Pellant -
31st July 2023 
