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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Aaron Curran

Quirky sayings you'll only know if you're from St Helens

A dialect is a massive part of a town or area's identity.

St Helens has no shortage of unique sayings that separates them from the rest of Merseyside. The Lancashire influence on much of the town's speech is still clear to see, despite St Helens leaving the county in the 1970s..

Revisiting a topic previously explored by the ECHO, we looked at some popular St Helens sayings, and what the true meaning/ origin behind them really is.

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