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Replying to Sheev Palpatine
21:42, Tue 2 Jun
Sheev PalpatineThen it's just a word. Like any word
Didn't say it wasn't. I said she calls a gulley a ginnel. She does.
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Dennis Langan 21:02, Sun 24 May
Didn't say it wasn't. I said she calls a gulley a ginnel. She does.
Kym
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Replying to Dennis Langan
20:57, Wed 3 Jun
Dennis LanganMy Mom (88) round for dinner tonight, chatting about this and that, as you do…
Subject of having kids out of wedlock came up in conversation and she said it was “living over the brush”, one I hadn’t heard before.
Living over the brush refers to the pagan practice of a couple getting married by jumping over a broom.
ManxieMany old terraced houses used to have a covered walk way between the houses with bedrooms above which gave access to all the rear gardens. My grand parents and parents always used to call them “the gully”. I’ve not heard this in years and certainly not heard it outside Birmingham but I could be wrong.
They are called gulleys out in the sticks in Burntwood.
Charcy
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Replying to Rab C Nesbitt
21:03, Wed 3 Jun
Rab C NesbittIn the Black Country gulley is used for any walkway between houses or streets.
Gulley is also used instead of alley I suppose.
Entry is another word used for a gap between houses that leads to a garden gate each side. Put the recycling bin up the entry
Yeah that.