wiganworld   (Feedback, help, your ideas for new content.)

Thank you for your helpful pointers, Dostaf.

The "ladies" you mentioned can sling their hooks.

I'd say, and you can quote me on this, it is just these "characters" that can sling their hooks.

(You knew I was ^barnt tell you off about that comment, Dostaf.)

^barnt - colloquial for bound to(?) - was/is often said where I grew up in our borough.
So, I think, its usage might be nowhere nearly as restricted as you thought.

Thank you also for sharing your cop*ing mechanism.
I won't be copying it - *here I add y:

Someone dear to me was originally from Yorkshire - how-den can I not like Tykes?
Some of my family are Southerners.
And Ooh la la! - I love frogs!

To sum up, I think:

Where a person comes from adds to, rather than detracts from, who they are.