100 Year Old Russian Photos...Colorized

[Sohkay]

It's very interesting to see these old photos colorized.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

[Ste]

It's very interesting to see these old photos colorized.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

Oy, I posted these yonks ago!

[Rvrwind]

Steve, you best get Nadya to teach you Russian, because your English Suks!!!LMFAO
What in hell is a 'yonks'??? ???

[Ste]

Steve, you best get Nadya to teach you Russian, because your English Suks!!!LMFAO
What in hell is a 'yonks'??? ???

Means 'ages'! You can also say 'yonkers'!

Lancashire dialect...

[Rvrwind]

Sheesh now I gotta totally relearn the English language!!!
My wonderful wife & her Mother who is visiting Tver for two months in their infinite Russian wisdom have decided to institute a new rule in our home. Its the language rule I'm calling it, two days we only speak English & two days we only speak Russian.
On the surface it sounds like a good idea & a great way for one to learn the other language. However, & that is a big however, I have to ask for what I want Or what I want done in Russian & am not permited to speak English. You won't believe what I got for dinner today, now I know how bad my Russian is.
Oh, well I gotta go study up on how to order T Bone Steak Medium Raw, wait till she tries to find one, LOL. I'll get the last laugh then!

[Mamma D]

OK... here is a vidio prepared by a Russian lady and sent to me....I share with her permission....

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid988115862

Mamma D

[jb]

That's a great video, Momma D.

Just goes to show the accuracy of Our Lady of Fatima's (Nossa Senhora do Rosário de Fátima)prediction,,, these things will come to pass.

[Ste]

Here's some real Lancashire dialect words, the old un's (inc me?) still use it, I must admit my dad used to say 'thee, ty and thine' - funny that.

Some good ones here, I well remember me mum saying 'Shurrup, tha's getten bellywarks, nowt more...'

ah'm afeart = I'm afraid.
bally ann = a meal put together from whatever was available, as in "It's a bally ann meal today".
b'art or beawt = without. The former is also in common usage in Yorkshire, as in the song "Ilkley Moor b'art 'at".
bellin' = to cry out or make a great deal of noise (presumably a contracted form of 'bellyaching').
bidding = an invitation to a funeral.
blather, blether or blether-yed = someone with nothing between the ears. A head full of air. Hence, to blether meant to say a great deal about nothing.
bobber and bobbing = a man who woke up workers before clocks were common possessions; a so-called 'knocker up'; sometimes the man who also woke up those who fell asleep during church sermons. Bobbers often carried long poles, with which to tap roundly on bedroom windows or lightly on the head of a sleeper in chapel.
boggart = a ghost or spirit (as in Boggart Hole Clough in Manchester)
broo, brow or brew = a slight hill, bank or slope.
brew = also can mean a cup of tea as in "...dust want brew?" (Do you want a cup of tea?).
champion = grand, excellent, first class, superlative.
chitty = young girl or lass.
chunner = to mutter.
claggy = sticky as in dough that is too wet. Sultry or humid weather can also be described as claggy.
clough = steep sided valley or tributary to another valley.
cow slavver = cow dung. "Slavver" means to slobber or dribble.
cratchy = irritable, bad tempered.
delph = quarry or excavation.(As in the district of Delph in Oldham).
dip = sauce or syrup - sometimes fat from the frying pan after cooking.
eawl-leet = twilight or dusk (from 'owl light').
faggot = derogatory term for a woman, as in "th'owd faggot" (the old woman).
fair = entirely or completely, as in "Ah'm fair worn out".
fettle = to repair or mend. Sometimes used to indicate a good state of repair or excellent condition as in "It were in fine fettle".
fleck and flecky = a flea, flea-bitten.
gill = a specific old Imperial unit of liquid measure, but locally it could mean any small measure of drink, as in "Wil't 'ave a gill wi' me?" (Will you have a drink with me?).
hippins = baby's nappies or diapers.
jessy = a cissy, or a mollycoddle, hence "Yer big jessy!"
keck-handed or cack-handed = left-handed or sometimes ham-fisted.
keks = trousers.
likely = handsome or comely, as in "a likely lad".
lurry = lorry or waggon, often written as well as spoken.
mash = weaving term for bad work or a messy job.
mawkin = dirty, slovenly or shabby.
motty = a small sum of money.
mun = must do, as in 'Yer mun do it" (You must do it). The negative form is munna, as in "Yer munna do it" (You mustn't do it).
nesh = feeble, weak or soft as in "Eeh lass, th'art nesh", surviving from a commonly used Old English word.
nobbut = no more than, nothing but, as in "Th'art nobbut a slip of a lass" (You are no more than a little girl).
nowt = nought or nothing.
nowty = naughty, bad-tempered, irritable.
owt = aught or anything.
perish = freeze.
petty = outdoor toilet.
pissabed = dandelion, supposedly caused children to wet the bed, sometimes expressed more genteely as pee-a-bed.
pop his clogs = to die.
pop shop = pawnbroker, as in the folk song "Pop goes the Weazel"
put wood i' th' oil = close the door (literally "put the wood in the hole").
reasty or resty = rancid, rotten, putrid - usually of food.
seg = a callous or a corn, usually hard skin on the hand.
sen = self, as in "tha-sen" (thyself or yourself) and "mi-sen" (myself).
sennit = a week (seven nights), also "fortnit" for a fortnight (two weeks).
sithee = see you, or, I'll be seeing you.
skrike = to cry out, to weep or shriek.
starved = frozen with cold.
strap = credit, hence "on the strap" (bought on credit).
tater 'ash = potato hash, a local dish of corned beef and mashed potato - still a local delicacy.
tosspot = drunk or rowdy - a word now used commonly throughout England though originating in Lancashire.
wark = ache, as in "belly-wark" (stomache ache), also as in "tooth-wark" (toothache).
welly = well nigh, almost, nearly.
woven mi' piece = reached the end, come to the end of life (I am ready to die).
yammer = to yearn, lament or long for.

[jb]

thankie, ste...

[SANDRO43]

b'art or beawt = without. The former is also in common usage in Yorkshire, as in the song "Ilkley Moor b'art 'at".

So the song title means "On Ilkley Moor without a hat" ? When I first heard it (without understanding a word), I thought it might have a less mundane subject .