Talk:Barrovian

Ulverstone in Barrovian
Pronounced something like "Ooerstan" - worth mentioning? Herbgold (talk) 16:51, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Split of the article into an article about the dialect and another about the mixture of the standard language and the dialect
Hello,

this article covers both the dialect and the mixture of the standard language and the dialect. Kind regards, Sarcelles (talk) 08:27, 22 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure what the traditional dialect was in Barrow. To the best of my knowledge, no one did any studies on this.  It would be long forgotten now.  There was a huge influx of Irish workers to Barrow in the 19th Century, and we all know how that changed the dialect in Liverpool.  Epa101 (talk) 22:11, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

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Lexis 'n' that
I think "tight" doesn't strictly mean "unfair", it's more like "mean" or "mean spirited". As in "don't be tight!" "Aaaaw that's really tight!" These are both things a kid might whine to their parent. You can also accuse your friends of being tight, if they are being tight. Sure, "unfair" might also fit in as a description here, but there are other cases of the word meaning "mean" particularly.

Of course there might be a crossover with "tight-fisted", also expressed just as "tight". Could be the one use gradually mutated into the other, things like that happen all the time in slang, which evolves much more quickly than formal language

I say all this as a native West Yorkshire speaker. Not from Barrer, but it's a general bit of Northern English slang, or even entirely British slang. I'm fairly sure I've seen Southerners say it.

It can also mean "unfortunate", to describe a set of circumstances or a result. Slang is like that, doesn't apply well to rules.

84.65.94.92 (talk) 02:39, 23 January 2022 (UTC)