I say, Do you speak Dawley?
Take our 8 question fun quiz on the Dawley dialect!
If you are starving in Dawley, you are...
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If you are 'Nesh' you..
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Beer in Dawley is known as...
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A large sandwich in Dawley? That's a...
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'Shift thee Shammocks' means move your...
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If you are 'cowd' you are...
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A name for a local bloke.
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Something described as 'bost' is what?
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'I'm am going to purchase a small bag of suck' What would you be buying?
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I have really enjoyed this post c
Happy to do this,owd cocka They dunner cum much more Dorley than me.
Good bit of fun
Bostin Jockey..
Ba avin foggits pais n taiters fer me tea..
Bit of an incommensurability mi’sen
Haven’t lived in Cawley for35 years. Good fun post
Door the lock put window on key any basin in the puddin thin it is .
Dawley people I know would not get all those words, because they are not all Dawley
Dawley talk is the hardest thing to understand or get to grips with its like black Country lingo
My Grandad was from Dawley. Every time it rained he used to say ‘If thee’s frittund of a drap a wairter then thee’s never adda wesh!’
love it and love Dawley speak