Today, preoccupied, I said to a visiting child who I was about to take home, "Have you got all your your trankliments?" Meaning toys, shoes, phones, etc.
Is this word in use in other areas, or is it just Yorkshire?
Bill
Hardly surprising, given it's an English regional dialect word. OED2 has "trinklements" which it says is a Lancashire word meaning "trinkets, knick-knacks".
See
Not heard it but guess that it?s a dialect form of ?accoutrements?.
Tim
According to Wright's 1896 "The English Dialect Dictionary" a bit wider:
TRANKLIMENT, sb. Cum. Wm. Yks. Chs. Shr. Also written tranklyment Yks.; and in forms tranklement Yks. Shr.1; trantlement Cum.14 Wm. [tra·?kliment, tra·?klim?nt.]
I'm a bit surprised you don't have a well-thumbed copy of Wright's so as to be able to educate the grandchildren on their heritage :)
Well, I'm half Yorkshire and had not heard it myself. Sounds like some kind of composite of two words to me. Brian
Not familiar with that version/spelling, but...
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1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.3 ReferencesEnglish Etymology
Coined in its current sense by the English cookery writer Dorothy Hartley in her book Food in England in 1954, but probably derived from a similar dialect word with variant spellings (e.g. tranklement, tanchiment) used before that date across North and Central England and meaning "ornaments, trinkets; bits of things". Noun
tracklement (plural tracklements)
(Britain, rare) A savoury condiment (for example a mustard, relish or chutney), especially one served with meat.
As it was possibly written by Bill (or just maybe his forbears) he probably has a number of copies that were presented by his publisher.
It must be admitted that's it's probably aged better than the cardigans featured on the front covers of "Television".
I often read (past simple) that magazine in WHSmiths.
Owain
That must me a cheapskate publication.
Bill
So, Is this word in use in other areas, or is it just Yorkshire?
Bill
It's a new one on me. (Lancs)
I'd never heard of it, and all search hits said yorkshire or specifically sheffield ...
I've only ever come across it in Yorkshire. A few miles up the M1 from you its 'tranklements - with an 'e' not an 'i'.
A few miles south of you into Derbyshire and it was never heard and had to be explained.
Never heard it darn sarf (surrey/East anglia)
While Joseph Wright came from Bradford he had no issue who survived beyond childhood so he can't be one of Bill's forebears as such. Possibly a collateral. Not to mention a bloody clever bloke who went from illiterate mill worker to Oxford professor.
He might have had a bike. Many of my male ancestors had bikes, I have come to believe.
Bill
I have never heard of either. (J38 of M1)
I was a bit further north - J39. Mebbe the cut off point was Woolley Edge?
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