Billing Dialect

Wot dust reckn' Tom LINK ?

Are those two Billinger's ?

Might be from Billinge but not a Billinge accent

I could't tell owt they said, an odd word here and theer

I said that it was over the top, and that is what I found, just the odd word and maybe part of a sentence.

Clearly, very well rehersed.

Love it!

I could understand about 30% of it. The bloke on the right had no teeth in, so that made it harder to understand from him.

Mollie

It were gobbledygook to me, I got it from Wigan Peers LINK

That was pure Bilinge , I remember my grandfather speaking as they did all Bilingers didn,t speak like that but most of them did, it was different to the Lancashire dialect , dun yu know war am on about,?

"Gerr'aaaigh'nit"!

My father-in -law was a Billinger... he always advised or offered alternatives on local dialect... and once said a Wiganer would say something like "I just saw a dog reynd't' corner"... and Billingers would say " I just saw a dug rarnd't 'corner. But it changed from relative nearby areas - mostly the same dialect but with regional differences within a small town. I remember in my early working years struggling to know what folk from Aspull were saying...hast gettn anooo (have you got enough, and so on). One old man asked me "Ersse thememi" I had to continually ask please say again.... It was only when he pointed to his wrist that I realised he was asking the time (How's the enemy.... a reference to time!).
I do remember my mam once telling me that she was parading (as a teenager) along Whelley up to Aspull (as everyone did in Wigan, Pem, etc way back). Someone asked if they knew where Cale Lane was as she was trying to get in touch with someone. My mam's mate said she didn't know... my mam looked at her mate and said "yes you do - you live in Cale Lane!"
Her response was 'No I don't... I live in Kyle Lone"!!!
If ever there was chance to create a local film or series based on accents and nostalgia, etc. then there is much to glean from the accents of Wigan and larger district.

You Don,t live in Billinge plus you're nor owdinoo Fort ear it spoke,n

I were born e Billinge, nor in't thospital, in R hause, 23 Wiggin rode Billinge, next doer wuz Bartons and tuther side wus Ashalls and noan o them spoke.n liaaake that video liaaake,

Tha too young Tommy