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[Jordyboy9]

No reply from you ed are you not speaking to me,hope you are well,some are being bad to me again

[spathiphyllum]

Calico, that link proves the word doesn't exist. I feel i understood what you meant, however i may have been wrong.

[SparklyKid]

Never heard of cotter, certainly not in the north west.

[Calicogirl]

Spath- how the hell do you make that out- someone else was asking about it and asking if it was solely a Midlands term. It's a commonly used word, at least in the Midlands.

[ludwig]

Mods are a bit like trolls. It's pointless getting into debates with or about them as it only feeds their sense of self importance.

[spathiphyllum]

Probably because it isn't a recognised word.

[spathiphyllum]

"It's a commonly used word, at least in the Midlands."

Never heard it in the west mids.

[jno]

it's not in my OED or slang dictionary, Calicogirl, and even the Urban Dictionary is vague about it. And yet I understood your meaning instantly, so my ignorance won't be keeping me up at night.

[Jordyboy9]

Jack okay let’s be honest there are only 2 people on answerbank I don’t get on with and you my dear are not one of them ,we have had our differences since way back remember tammo,,,,no smoking,Spartacus?you once said that you took great delight in outing banned users which didn’t go down well with me,but that’s in the past,so why are you thinking that I am going back to my old ways?

[spathiphyllum]

Oh no.. You're not back to jordyboy99 are you...

[Calicogirl]

I have a feeling actually Shakespeare used it, can't remember where though, but it's honestly quite a common word in the Midlands, I'm just looking at various dictionaries and none have them have the definition as is used locally yet. Still looking lol :)

[spathiphyllum]

Where do you class as the 'midlands' ? I live in Staffordshire

[jackthehat]

Jordy - Let's not get invloved in what was said yesterday beyond the fact that you and I *both* know who you were meaning.....and why.

You swing between putting up inoffensive threads on which there is fun to be had, and making pointed, quite spiteful posts for no other reason than to stir the pot.

Only one of those sorts of post gets regularly removed....

[Gromit]

// The dialect of the Black Country area.
Word: Cotter. Meaning: have no cotter with him (have nothing to do with him). //

[Calicogirl]

Midlands let's go 70 mile radius of Birmingham but truthfully dialect alters drastically in 10 miles in some cases. I'm from Herefordshire and certainly they use around here likewise Worcestershire and Black Country, but I would have expected it to be easily understood across the whole midlands and in fact country, but obviously it's not used further afield. you can basically put cotter anywhere you can put 'truck'. 'I'm not having any truck with him' for example would work as well saying 'I'm not having any cotter with him' meaning I'm not putting up with his nonsense.

[jno]

to me truck's something you drive, but I think it used to mean payment in kind, which might be connected to the usage you quote

[Spicerack]

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and cotters of outrageous fortune

[Calicogirl]

This one's in a dictionary Jno. I'm starting to feel like a Redneck who's wandered down from her mountain, confusing all the proper folks wid ma strange talk :)

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/have-no-truck-with

[spathiphyllum]

Are we still allowed to call it the black country

[Calicogirl]

That's it Spicey ;-)

[jno]

yes, truck in the sense of dealings might be related to the sense of payment.

Don't fret - remember, I'm the immigrant here, not you.