- Tidney Mines
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Sydney Mines
- yer getting on me nerve, tanya
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Said to child who is annoying parent
- git on da nob
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Go away, you are annoying me
Contrib: C. Andrea
- Nort Tidney
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North Sydney
Contrib: W. MacKeigan
- Up-da-avenues
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The streets known as the Avenues
Contrib: W. MacKeigan
- Brown Street Country Club
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Teenage partying spot in behind the houses on the south side of Brown Street Extension
Contrib: W. MacKeigan
- D'ay don't know da issues Norris
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from CJCB Radio Talk-Back
Contrib: W. MacKeigan
- Greeners
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Cliffs over looking Sydney Harbour
Contrib: W. MacKeigan
- Jeet yet? No,jou?
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Eaten yet ?
Contrib: C. Jessome
- Scuttlebutt
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Pre-dance drinking place by Memorial High
Contrib: C. Mauger
- da red row
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Row houses built during the coal boom
Contrib: S. Vickers
- da barracks
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Remains of WWII fortifications
Contrib: S. Vickers
- Rocket Robbie Waye
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Our first astronaut
Contrib: S. Vickers
- S'anyways
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So anyway
Contrib: Jonathon Caldwell
- da Mines
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Sydney Mines
Contrib: Debbie Olson
- Little Italy
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Bottom of Atlantic Street
Contrib: Debbie Olson
- Sesame Street
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Area around Notre Dame Street because of so many young families
Contrib: Debbie Olson
- The back beach
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Atlantic Street beach
Contrib: Debbie Olson
- Jeet? No jou? Not jet, jawanna?
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Want to eat ?
Contrib: Rick Shaw
- Pill Hill
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Shore Road hill where all the doctors live
Contrib: Bayani Igancio
- The Jungle
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The low rentals across from Notre Dame School
Contrib: Norma Baxter
- The Heaps
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Back of Main St and Guy St, heaps of steel slag?
Contrib: Alanna Brogan
- Fox Rock
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Teenager gathering spot off Victoria Dr.
Contrib: Alanna Brogan
- Bill Jerroe did it!
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Young Tommy Dolhanty always said it, whatever happened.
Contrib: Jack Dolhanty
- Down Nort
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Down North
Contrib: Joe Cordeau
- Da Bullies
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Popular skating pond behind York Street
Contrib: Linda Osmond
- Da Maple
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The woods between York and Barrington Street (now a new subdivision)
Contrib: Linda Osmond
- Carters Ladder
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A vertical pathway up the cliff down by 'DA BARRACKS'
Contrib: John Lamond (Sutherlands Corner)
- Da land of Da Korner
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Sutherland's Corner or Shore Road and Main Street
Contrib: gafraser
- Yer lookin gud....too bad yer wernt gud lookin
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In true English to be read as "You are looking good, Too bad you aren't good
looking!" A real back hand compliment. Language from the corner.
Contrib: gafraser
- shooting the drag
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That was from Pius 10th parking lot to SMH on a constant basis.Somedays it
could take you 45 minutes to go that far once.
Contrib: Jim Cantwell
- The bog
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marsh between Butts and Forrest Streets
Contrib: Linda Mitchell
- The men in the Pitt
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The miners, whose opinions and advice were treated as Gospel
Contrib: Linda Mitchell
- Hangin' on the corner
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Popular activity for pre-teens and teenagers to
socialize on a street corner after supper and early evening
Contrib: Linda Mitchell
- Clampers
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Ice floes in Sydney Harbour during spring breakup
Contrib: Linda Mitchell
- The Enterprise
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Tommie Jacques store
Contrib: gfraser
- Cranberry
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the area down off pitt st.
Contrib: Brian Billard
Contributions are welcome and will be acknowledged. Please email to
john@johnandrea.ca
Eventually I hope to include sounds of the phrases as well.
begun: Dec.18/1995
updated: Mar.25/2006
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