Dandelion and burp a lot, for dandelion and burdock.
A rare treat, as we usually ended up with council pop (tap water).
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âRandy lions and bird muckâ you mean? 
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Spoonerisms were popular by us.
Cracket of pisps, anyone? Packet of crispsâŠ
Grattle kids for kattle gridsâŠ
Did anyone else speak backslang?
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Not as a family, but my dad learned it as a butcher in London before the war.
e-crip for âpriceâ
team for âmeatâ
rye-H for âhairâ (riah)
He must have told us many more, but I canât remember them at the moment.
Of course he came out with rhyming slang as well: sky-rocket - pocket
tit-fer-tat hat, were two of his usual ones.
Everyone knew rhyming slang, but backslang was for âinsidersâ in the trade (to talk over the heads of customers). I learned later that it was used in other communities as well as in the meat trade.
My partnerâs family use it - eeff (eeffoc) and ekac are common in their house, along with deliberate mistranslations from Portuguese, such as overtable (= pudding, sobremesa).
reminds me of one which used to be popular on a social forum I used to inhabit:
orcheurs-de-vache for co-workers (cow-orkers
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Just a portion of lyric from me for now.
My excuse for sneaking it in here, is that it was on Radio Cymru this morning.
Heart of Gold
Neil Young
I wanna live, I wanna give
Iâve been a miner for a heart of gold
Itâs these expressions I never give
That keeps me searching for a heart of gold
And Iâm getting oldâŠ
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In France in the 70s or maybe the 60s, all cool teenagers spoke âverlanâ in which syllables or words were reversed (and a few more liberties). For ezample, âfemmeâ became âmeufâ and mĂ©chant (evil) became chanmĂ©. Iâm not sure if itâs still used. You may already have spotted that âverlanâ comes from âĂ lâenversâ / backwards. 
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1) Go on, hit me with a stunning song lyric.
I donât believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darling, that you do.
2) When did you last laugh till you were weak and why?
Father Ted. The Father Jack dies episode.
3) Or does your family use alternative names for common things?
Not really a common thing, but Iâm currently very proud of how our kids have turned âSunshine Danâ into âSunshine DANTâ. [Yes, they sing it with exactly that emphasis. Nothing accidental happening here.]
4) What is something youâve recently found yourself having to explain over and over again ?
Grammar isnât a real thing. Language is an emergent property that behaves in largely the same way as other complex adaptive systems.
5) What will be your focus for personal improvement in the coming months?
I need to have a good long run at being properly sugar-free again⊠
6) Make up your own Friday Five question and answer it.
Am I going to have time to tell everyone about NAFOW, and our new idea, this coming week?
YES.
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Aran, thatâs the song that really got me into Nick Cave, great choice 
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http://song-translations.moonfruit.com/#/divno-je-biti-nekomu-latino/4549238146 (original Croatian one and translation + video to listen to the song and all other data where to find it).
I donât remember I ever laughed that hard.
Donât remember such thing. Might be because of different culture and country or it just didnât happen to me.
Something in my office to my team who makes the very same mistakes over and over again. I was a bit angry to be honest.
Opening my chakras and with that enabling my very being (soulful and physical) to perform better. Might be quite strange for many of you but thatâs what I feel I have to do in order to function better and do things better in my life.
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Sorry Aran, donât follow that. Could you explain what you mean, please? 
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We used a form of backslang that was slightly different:- Cagan yagou spageak bagackslagang?
You can probably work out whatâs going onâŠ
Stunning lyric? Too many choices, but Iâd like to share two and although Iâve picked the same artist for both, any of her lyrics could be viewed as stunning. Guess Iâm a little biased.
From âSiglo dy sailâ by Meinir Gwilym on her âTombolaâ album
âCloi drws yr hen gell ac yna rhywun yn dy lusgo di iâr golauân wellâ
(Shut the door of the old [familiar?] cell and then someone drags you into a better light)
I had slid down a slippery slope of depression, anxiety and stress and was living on my own having moved away from my wife. This lasted a year - I decided I was going to reconnect with some happier, safer times and that was the 70s, growing up in Wales. I decided to finish learning Welsh, found SSiW, was voted in as an Angel (bless all you guys, then and now) and discovered Meinir in that process. The song-line above told me that someone had dragged me into a better light and it turned into a turning-point for me.
The second lyric Iâd like to share is from âCĂąn i Tiâ from Meinirâs latest album âLlwybrauâ and is basically a song you would sing to a young relative or to your child as a parent, full of wonderful, sage advice.
âBeth bynnag ddaw, beth bynnag fydd, mae hiân ddigon i fod yn chdiâ
(Whatever comes, whatever will be, itâs enough [just] to be you]
Whatever kind of person you are, mouse, lion, bear etc, just be who you are. We are being reassured that itâs ok to be who we are and many people really need to hear this!! (But especially me!!)
Thanks Meinir, for absolutely being who you are!
PS Meinir, I love âGormodâ!!!
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Yob for boy is one that escaped out into wider society.
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1) Go on, hit me with a stunning song lyric.
Well, âAll Along the Watchtowerâ - words by Bob Dylan and as played & sung by Jimi Hendrix - is probably too well known.
So, @JohnYoung has already chosen one by Neil Young and Iâll choose another: âDonât Let It Bring You Downâ:
Old man lying by the side of the road
With the lorries rolling by
Blue moon sinking from the weight of the load
And the buildings scrape the sky
Cold wind ripping down the alley at dawn
And the morning paper flies
Dead man lying by the side of the road
With the daylight in his eyes
Donât let it bring you down
Itâs only castles burning
Find someone whoâs turning
And you will come around
Blind man running through the light of the night
With an answer in his hand
Come on down to the river of sight
And you can really understand
Red lights flashing through the window in the rain
Can you hear the sirens moan?
White cane lying in a gutter in the lane
If youâre walking home alone
Donât let it bring you down
Itâs only castles burning
Find someone whoâs turning
And you will come around
2) When did you last laugh till you were weak and why?
I tend not to find standard jokes terribly funny, and as for modern TV comedians well the less said the better as far as Iâm concerned. But I find certain situations and individual people really amusing. There was one guy on a group holiday a couple of years ago who was such a natural comedian that he had me in semi-permanent stitches, and it got to a point where I had to avoid him mealtimes etc as I just couldnât stop laughing. Yes I probably need help.
3) When I was a child in the 70s a bakery van used to come to our street⊠does your family use alternative names for common things?
Can I skew this a bit towards a nickname? When I was very young for some obscure reason I used to call my grandfather âGogâ, and this became the standard nickname everyone used for him. This was Caerdydd in the 50s & 60s, when one hardly knew anyone who spoke Welsh (my other grandparents did, but thatâs another story). Fast forward 60 years and itâs only since SSIW that Iâve come across the popular use of Gog for Gogledd. Iâve got used to it now but when I first saw it I could barely believe it.
4) What is something youâve recently found yourself having to explain over and over again ?
Why I am learning Welsh. There are a tiny few people who get it immediately; but despite all the support one gets from this community, I find thereâs a knee-jerk reaction by most folks in Lloegr, if only at the joke level, to all things Welsh.
5) What will be your focus for personal improvement in the coming months?
Getting to bed occasionally before 1.30 in the morning.
6) Make up your own Friday Five question and answer it.
Q. Why donât I answer this Pump am y Penwythnos thread more often?
A. âCos youâre so blinkinâ uncreative, mate, that you never get as far as being able to make up a Friday Five question.
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Just now! It might just be my sense of humour, butâŠ
I was in the kitchen explaining to my son about how one person in a Uwch-level Welsh class who insists on speaking English a lot, means that everyone else starts speaking English as well, however much the tutor tries to change it back. In what other sort of classes does that happen? âIn fact, the class is more for socialising than learning Welsh - why donât they do something else such as Art?â, I said.
âHang on a momentâ my son (who just been to a life-drawing class), replied. You mean go to a life-drawing class and do life-writing instead: âThereâs a man sat in front of me, with his bum hanging over the edge of the stoolâ. The others gather round - âOh, thatâs much easier than drawing, weâll write down what we can see!â
Well, the tears were rolling down my face and I couldnât breathe - I could imagine it as a sketch on Dim Byd.
But the serious point is, other than language courses, where else do you voluntarily sign up to do something and then do the opposite?
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Probably needs a separate thread, one of these daysâŠ
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I worked in the butchers department in David Greggs, when I was 16. The butchers spoke back slang all the time. I canât remember much but I do recall if a woman/girl walked into the shop wearing a red hat. The boys would shout, what sounded like, âder tach on roundersâ
It made little sense to me but was supposed to mean, red hat no drawers! If you remove the âsâ and âcâ it would mean. Red hat no reward!!
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