That is the ring around the ankle?? no

yep and singing songs of separation

from beloved (UP Ahir community)

SILL and LORHA

Not familiar with this one

Brick one flat and the other round used for grinding

massala etc.

VB here is biraha

Or to hit de husband, when he make demands at the wrong time.

Me logie neighba used to say 'gyal come pour some oil in me ear na'.

PIERA

I like this video, very traditional. Plus, excellent camera work.

Hand-held cameras, don't always do a good job.   

PIE-RA  not PERAH

Waste from trashing rice from stalks.

Rice stacks correct.

What does PIERA has to do with Classis Clay/Sonny Liston fight in the early 60s ?

On our way home from school near Guava Bush bridge, on Nigg post office dam.

The Muslim barber had a wooden corral for his cows, covered with PIERA.

As kids we were rally in tuned with the Classius Clay/Sonny Liston fight and imitate it during recess.

On the way home after school, I was supposed to pretend to fight me late friend Moti [who died in Schenectady NY] in the PIERA  covered corral.

I was Classius Clay, he was Sonny Liston and I was supposed to knock him out, during our pretend fight.

Things got a bit out of hand and when I knocked him out over the wooden rails. The boys standing around the corral watching, held on to his hands and we took off his clothes.

Motie got  really mad by this time and he ran  home naked.

Since I was his best friend and was in the corral with him, every looked at me to take his clothes home, but I was scared of his Ma.

Walking to his house with his clothes in my hands, I noticed his mother standing by their gate with a stick in her hand. Now I am really scared.

 I stood still for a while surveying the situation, how am I going to do this without any licks.

So I ran up to his fence, throw the clothes over and shouted

'AUNTY, MOTIE FEGET HE CLOTHES AT SCHOOL'

and me took off home.

It was months before I would visit him again at his house.

A true story.

Motie dad's gun that we borrowed to shoot birds, shot me accidently on my left elbow and that is not a PIERA story.          

We use to play in the heap of piera,after that skin does

itch.I can recall when we were little our mattress was

made from piera and rice bag,that was poor days.

Our piera matrass and pillow were made of 'striped cloth' [why striped? maybe low cost]  and every few months the stitch was opened and piera spread out in the sun to dry. 

I never like the smell of piera pillows and even today the odour on pillows can keep me awake.

I have a bag needle and visiting  kids were told, its used to stitch bodies during an autopsy. After that, I knew it would be safe. No one wants to touch it.    

Is there a  name for the ground where the grass is removed wid shovels and a pole  planted in the middle to mash rice wid cows ?

BE-AAH, or is dat the rice nursery ?      

"Is there a  name for the ground where the grass is removed wid shovels and a pole planted in the middle to mash rice wid cows ?"

Thanks.

This thread is getting too long to rememba all de words, if not visited daily.  

LOGIE

on another note I used to swim in the soaking tank that water used to leave yo smelling like old rice bag  

Housing on sugar estates.

KARHI

One of the things I noticed with bathing wid water from the estate overhead tanks.

It had a high iron content and would rusty containers. Also while sweating, the iron odour is very strong. I never like dat smell.

In a rice soaking tank at rice mills, what was the dead rice that float called ?   It was bagged to feed chickens.    

wind paddy

hint... food made with yellow split peas

That is one right word, but there is boosie from  milling rice and annada name.

pholorie cooked in sour yogurt or dhall gravy.

KHAJA

Berbician's called it PAMPI

Is that from a young coconut palnt..just sprouting out.

That is correct,Skelly.

Also being bowled half of a lampi pampi ball. A ball wit one an a half bounce.

GOOGLY

Sounding like Google,surely it's not related,it's a type

of bowling in in the game of Cricket.

lang time ah din hear dis wan boy go clean yo BOO BOO  look like we running out ah wuds

Yo think we start one on cussing rass