We was Brung Up Proper

Question

Excuse the bad garammar in the title but the object is to highlight how we used to live and, by the way, how we used to speak, especially where I came from.

Nostalgia

Just let me live my life.

It sounds like perfect cockney to me, governor! - 005faa61, Jan 28, 2011

excellent piece - Yeser007, Jan 28, 2011

Julian, almost correct, gov'ner. - Eddy, Jan 28, 2011

Would that be the same gov´ner u lives in the big wite ouse? - 005faa61, Jan 28, 2011

Answer 1

I know I wuz! 3-18-1952

Good grief I was 9 years old by then. - Eddy, Jan 28, 2011

Answer 2

“What doesn't kill you makes you stronger”

Polio? - afowen, Jan 28, 2011

Answer 3

Interesting. I have received the Spanish version of that text many times during the last 15 years or so.

Some of it strikes me as funny; some of it as "just so true". Other bits I don't quite agree with so much. Any way you look at it, though, it is a good reflection about the way in which the world has changed so dramatically in the last 50 years.

Answer 4

That's interesting Eddy.....especially the 'we was brung up proper'. Wasn't that used mostly in the east end of London?

100% correct. - Eddy, Jan 28, 2011

Answer 5

Thanks for sharing. I remember the "blood sister" thing that someone commented about My little friends would prick their fingers and I would too, then we pressed our fingers together and became "blood sisters". It was a quite a common thing to do when I was younger. Can you imagine doing that now? I shudder at the thought!!!

Yes, especially with your closest friend. - Eddy, Jan 28, 2011

hmmmmm - Brynleigh, Jan 28, 2011

Answer 6

Eeh but it were reet grand up t'north our Eddy (well ... the East Midlands anyway)

Aye ... when I were a lad ...

*** 10 points for anyone who can make sense of this (No Brits please) ***