2006-07-26 11:33:56 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Sociology
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
2006-07-26 11:38:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Must be a Sheffield thing. I'll watch Coronation Street to see if the Manchester crowd picks it up. British Columbia Canada
2006-07-26 11:37:34 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i will tone it down around my young infants, yet no longer cut back it out thoroughly. they'll learn it someplace, if no longer from me and my husband. identity fairly i knew precisely the place that they had heard it and that i could properly be there to describe why they shouldnt use it. i dont evaluate crap to be a foul be conscious. and while my young infants start to apply them, i will merely tell them that there are some words that are actually not for infants, and in the event that they ask i will clarify what the words mean. i could never EVER swear AT my young infants. that's unfavourable. i additionally very very infrequently swear in public (till im at artwork and lots sufficient decrease back interior the kitchen that the purchasers wont hear me. lol). i additionally make up multiple my very own words, swear words or no longer, so who's conscious of what kinds of issues my young infants will arise with?? :/
2016-11-03 01:53:22 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Been swearing down for at least 13 yrs 24 now and think i still do it and i am scouse
2006-07-26 11:45:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
depending on the context it isn't just a sheffield thing. i heard it a long time before i was there!
2006-07-26 11:37:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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?
2006-07-27 20:22:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Newcastle upon Tyne has the same expression in our rising young brain surgeons
2006-07-26 23:47:41 · answer #7 · answered by Peter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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]
2006-07-26 11:38:35 · answer #8 · answered by cross_sox 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, prevalent in East London too.
2006-07-28 10:38:48 · answer #9 · answered by old_but_still_a_child 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They say it in County Durham too. Similar meaning to "gospel truth".
2006-07-27 02:12:31 · answer #10 · answered by CT 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋