Lively night for us in sunny south wales tonight. Next door is having his roof tiled and was showing me what they were doing on our side when we saw/heard a bloke shouting down the street. He was waving at cars and standing in front of them causing no end of bother. He gets within 10 yards and we think we'll move off the street into the backgarden to look at the roof from there and avoid the obvious.

Anyway, we can still hear him round the back and then we start to hear the crashing noises. He's jumped in the skip full of old tiles and is chucking them in the road. This goes on for a few minutes and a young lass with a pram shouts to us wanting to know how to get through our houses to another street without going past him. Enough I thought and after showing her I rang the police.

20 minutes later, he's still at the skip, still ranting a mix of army/rugby nonsense at nobody in particular and literally jumping up and down in the middle of the road. Not drunk, not sure what was up with him.Still nobodies turned up.

I rang 999 again and I'm going through it all again when my wife says there's a gang of kids taking the mick out of him. Forgetting where I was living for a minute, I say to the police on the phone "there's a gang of kids here now and they're chewing him." Slight pause at the other end of the line in Swansea. "Sorry sir, theyre doing what?"

Anyway, they turned up in 2 cars five minutes later and took him away quietly. With all the excitement I forgot about the 'chewing' for an hour or so but have been sat here with a daft grin on me face since.

ahh the noun/verb 'chew.'

It only has 'our' meaning within about a 2-mile radius of Hartlepool. It also looks completely wrong when written. I remember a piece in the Fail where some participant in a town centre Friday night special was quoted saying 'It wasn't me out looking for some chew...'

When you say " chew" round our way you get the same response....................lack of good education I say.

Nah. Probably just causing chew, I reckon

In the posh areas they say someone's been causing a bit of mastication.

It should apparently be spelt 'tew', and comes from the old English verb 'tawian' which means to be harrassed. At least that's what it says here, about halfway down the page:


http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/teesspeak/page15.phtml


Canny website, although the emphasis seems to be on the Smoggie side.

I'd forgotten all about 'feggy', 'seggy' and 'theggy' until I saw them in that web-site. Do kids still use those words or do they just push in, these days?