Do any of the kids near you "swear down" or is just a Sheffield thing?
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Yup my daughter says it also....it stems from ''i swear on my life'' then to ''i swear down on my life'' by doing this it emphasizes the ''truth'' of what they're ''swearing down on'' ...... honest its the truth i swear down. lol
explain.?
I hate kids and there retarded jargon
explain what that is first please
'swear down' is a geordie expression.My mates up there were saying it 10 years ago.
yep my 10 year old daughter and 8 year old son do , but i havent got a clue what it means, were in lancs
yep scouse too. might be a northern thing
Must be a Sheffield thing. I'll watch Coronation Street to see if the Manchester crowd picks it up. British Columbia Canada
They also do it in the Manchester area.
depending on the context it isn't just a sheffield thing. i heard it a long time before i was there!
it's a teenage thing i think, my children say it, i think it means something similar to swearing with your hand down on a bible but that is my interpretation from what they say. it is supposed to mean total truth and honesty, [yeh really with most of todays teens]
mancunian kids do it too.but it's rarer.
I think the scouse do it too
Been swearing down for at least 13 yrs 24 now and think i still do it and i am scouse
Newcastle upon Tyne has the same expression in our rising young brain surgeons
They say it in County Durham too. Similar meaning to "gospel truth".
i still swear down now! and also make my husband swear down too! and im 21 he is 24, we live in germany and people out here do it but were from leeds originally and everyone there does it too.
crazy eh?
Nope, prevalent in East London too.
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