KITTLER – Kettle of fish.

KELTER – Rubbish, nuisance.

KYEK – Cake.

KARD WEARMED UP – Sunday dinner re cooked.

KEN – Know.

KENNER – Knocking off time.

KRECKET – Cricket (the game or an insect) or in the pit, a small stool used.

KIST – Large tool box or in the pit, a deputy’s desk.

KEPPED – Caught.

KATCHED – Caught.

KAN THE LOUZE EZ – Can you loan me anything.

KLAGGEE – Sticky.

KLAGGED ON – Stuck on.

KLAGGED TEGGITHER – Stuck together.

KEYUL – Cool.

KLIMMEN – Climbing.

KUMMEN OWER – Coming over.

KRAH – Crow.

LIN ZHEE – Lithe.

LIST – Gumption.

LUGOLE – Ear hole.

LAPPT UP – Wrapped up.

LAPPT UP IN A PUDDEN CLOUT – Wrapped up in a pudding cloth.

LEET – Light.

LISH – Agile.

LASS NEET – Last night.

LANG – Long.

LANG UN – Long one.

LUCKS LIKE A PAIR ER SHITEN FRAMES – Somebody thin.

LEETEN – Lightning.

LUCKSTHE – Look you.

LEE-ER – Liar.

MAKKEN GAMM – Making game, pretending.

MAKKEN IN – Going in.

MAKKEN OUT – Making out, getting on. 

A foreigner was baffled one Durham Day when one miner said to another, “Ah see thoo’s makken in.” and the other replied, “Aye, how’s thoo makken out.”

MENSE – Manners, decency.

MEE-EST – Most.

MYED SUM FEET – Ran fast.

MYED LEG – Ran away.

MARRER – Mate.

MITES WEEL TARK TEE MESELL – Might as well talk to myself.

MITES WEEL GAN YAM – Might as well go home.

MAKKEN SUM REEK FLEE – Making a lot of smoke.

MAFFTID – Very warm surroundings.

NANTLEN – Going steadily on.

NEE-YEN – None.

NEE-YEN FOND – Not to daft as he appears (another use of the word fond).

NIGH and NIGH ON – Nearly.

NEE-YUK – Nook.

NIVVA – Never.

NOWT – Nothing.

NETTY – Outside lavatory.

NARS NOWT – Knows nothing.

NIVVER SEEN NOWT LIKED – Never seen anything like it.

NYAN AT ALL – Not very well.

NYAN TIDE – Not certain.

NIVVA NARN SIKE LIKE – Never known anything like it.

NAR – Know.

NEITHER NOWT NE SUMMAT – Neither one thing or the other.

NOBBUT JUST: Just enough.

NUT OWWER KEEN OYYER – Not happy about you.

NUT SUITED – Not compatible.

NEITHER SHAP NER MAKK – Neither shape or make.

NEE MAIR – No more.

NEWRIZ DAY – New Year’s Day.

OUT BY – In the pit, away from the coal face.

OWWER YONDER – Over there.

OWWEE MAN – Come on man.

OWWARD NAFF – Over the knees.

OWWARD BYUT TOPPS EE CLAIRTS – Ankle deep in mud.

OWT FRESH – Any news.

OOW IST – How are you.

OWWEED WATTER – Overseas, foreign parts.

OXTERS – Armpits.

OOW MUCH IST – How much is it?

OOW MUCH WAST – How much was it?

OOT ER FETTLE – Poorly.

OOT ER WERK – Unemployed.

ONLY THEM AZ NARS THERE ARN NARS – “Only those who know their own know.”  This was said to me by an old miner who said it was a riddle – it still is to me!