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Watch as we asked Germans to decode Yorkshire sayings - their guesses were absolutely brilliant
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00:00A-O-P. A-O-P. A-O-P. I don't know what you mean with this. You don't know what that could mean. Have a guess. Have a guess. A-O-P. Is it an abbreviation for something? Yes. Very good. It's like, uh, hello. Ah, okay. It's a greeting. It's a greeting, yeah. A-O-P. Yes, I have to learn it. Yeah, so you can use that for the next couple of days. It's important for me. Yeah, yeah.
00:29When you're at Kirksell Abbey, just say A-O-P. They'll know what you mean. Okay, yeah. The second one is mush. Mush. Oh, is it something, um, you say if, uh, something, uh, is wrong, or is getting wrong, or, like, so? Not quite. It's, uh, it's like a term of endearment. So you'd say it to a friend, like, mate. Okay. A friend. So you might say A-O-P mush.
00:59Okay. Okay. So, yeah. Yeah. And then, um, this is quite a tough one. This is more like a phrase. Yeah. But it's put wood in all.
01:10Tor, wo? Put wood. Wood. Put wood. Put wood in whole.
01:19Ah, this is, uh, I think, Yorkshire English. And, uh, I saw in the hotel room a saying there, and it's very difficult for me. Yeah, yeah.
01:30To understand it, because, uh, yeah, I'm happy if you speak slowly and distinctly, so I have a chance to say.
01:38Well, that, if it was, you know, traditional English, it would be put the wood in the whole.
01:43Ah, put the wood in whole. Put the wood in the whole. Yeah.
01:47And what is the sense of this?
01:49Close the door. Ah, close the door. Okay.
01:51Okay. Yeah. So you say, put wood in whole. Okay, okay.
01:54So this is more like a phrase, but egging on.
01:57Egging on.
02:00To go on to take something further. Something like that.
02:05Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah, it's like to encourage.
02:09Or, like, you know, yeah, push someone to go further with something.
02:13So if you egg someone on, you know, yeah, you'd, you'd be, like, encourage them to, uh, I don't know, yeah, go faster, maybe, or, like, you know, yeah.
02:22Yeah. Yeah, very good.
02:23So we'll do one more.
02:25Um, so this is another phrase, fair to middling.
02:30Fair to middling.
02:31Fair to middling.
02:31To make something together, to meet someone, to have a party or something?
02:46Yeah, it's more like how, describe how you're feeling, fair to middling.
02:51I'm just going to give you one more.
02:52Yeah.
02:52Yeah, so this is a noun, jinnul.
02:56Jinnul.
03:00I've no idea.
03:01No, a jinnul.
03:03If you're going to walk down jinnul.
03:08I don't know.
03:09No?
03:09If you had to guess.
03:11I'd pick from, uh, yeah, take a stab in the dark.
03:20To go shopping?
03:22Or have a drink in the cafe or something?
03:25Yeah, it's like an alleyway.
03:27It's just like a name for an alleyway.
03:31Whatever is called or anything, I don't know.
03:32Besides, if you were here, you're in a way.
03:33I'm going to mind if you were in an symmetral zone.
03:34Yeah, it's like a name.
03:35It's like a sign.
03:35And it's like one of those things.
03:36I know.
03:37If you're in a happy life than you're in a night mama, you could see.
03:38It's like when you're in a happy life.
03:40Do it, and if you're in a happy life.
03:41Here, you might get what thatrés was.
03:43If you have a map of luck, you're in a beautiful house and there's like a lover.
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