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Regional Dialects what words do you know.?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Some of our regional dialects are teetering on the brink of extinction because people can't understand them experts say.
Nine out of ten Britons can identify foreign phrases such as hasta la vista Spanish for see you later but only three in ten know scran is the word for food on Merseyside so what local words are dying out in your local dialect. ?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My dialect comes from the South and I live in the North
I have no idea
There are lots of words I don't like where I live now but I don't hate mail from people who like them  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When I work away, a lot of people don't get most of the words I'm using. Especially when I work in Ireland. Phrases such as
Getting some snap - getting some food
Black bright - Dirty
Well chuffed - Excited
Gormless - Stupid
Over yonder - Over there
Always seem to go a miss in other parts of the country |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"My Grandad was a farmer and as as child I would here a lot of different words you don't here today .... Keep Yew a Troshin' Bor I loved that ."
Troshin is Threshing and Bor is a Boy . just you never here some of the words now my own children would think what the hell they on about. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Lush means lush
Propper job means propper job
Maid means maid
Greggs pasty means im hungry lol"
lol xxx well theres a place I am sure for new words , |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Here some of our Norfolk words and some make me smile.
Mawkin Scarecrow
Mawther Girl
Mardle To gossip, chat or talk
Mavish Song thrush
Mob To scold or nag
Muckwash Sweaty and dirty
Oven-bird Long-tailed tit or bluetit (from shape of nest)
Pightle Small field or enclosure
Puckaterry Muddle or confusion
Quant To pole or punt - as in a wherry
Queer Out of sorts/ill
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Hate local dialect!
Loathe people TYPING it....(bad enough when they speak it)"
Well its dieing out . And some words I find strange and make me think where do thay come from ...... I see it as our colorful heritage . And coming from Norfolk we have one or two strange words. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Eftir be-in cloured ower the heid wi an aix, it’s a fair pleisir ti be loundert wi a stick.
And that is ? "
After being hit on the head with an axe, it is quite a pleasure to be thrashed with a stick.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Eftir be-in cloured ower the heid wi an aix, it’s a fair pleisir ti be loundert wi a stick.
And that is ?
After being hit on the head with an axe, it is quite a pleasure to be thrashed with a stick.
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was that French , lol Tell you in some parts of London I can't understand a word at times and they as me if I am from Australia oz. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Eftir be-in cloured ower the heid wi an aix, it’s a fair pleisir ti be loundert wi a stick.
And that is ?
After being hit on the head with an axe, it is quite a pleasure to be thrashed with a stick.
was that French , lol Tell you in some parts of London I can't understand a word at times and they as me if I am from Australia oz. "
haha no it's Sottish....
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I was born in Greenock, Scotland and my nana used to say 'stop yer greetin' if we were crying over nothing and 'hod yer wheesht' if she wanted someone to shut up. I've lived on the south coast of England since I was 6 so I don't know if they still use those expressions up there. Anyone? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It took a while before I realised that cousins from the second best city in Scotland (Newcastle) were talking about food when they spoke of 'bait' and that cigarettes are 'tabs'."
Or put another way:-
It took a while before Ah realised tha cousins frem the second best city in Scotland (Newcastle) were taakin aboot scran when they spoke of 'bait' an tha cigarettes are 'tabs'... man!...
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Hasta iver sin a coo lawp a fawer bar yat?And that is ? "
Have you ever seen a cow jump a four bar gate
Not really dialect as such just broad Cumbrian but we do have different numbers - Yan, Tan, Thethera, Methera, Pip is 1,2,3,4,5 |
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
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"Hasta iver sin a coo lawp a fawer bar yat?And that is ?
Have you ever seen a cow jump a four bar gate
Not really dialect as such just broad Cumbrian but we do have different numbers - Yan, Tan, Thethera, Methera, Pip is 1,2,3,4,5"
And in a different part of the county, aina, peina, para, pedera, pimp (although most of the dialects I know 15 is bumfit, which is such a brilliant word )
Harreet marra? Hossing it doon yere n ah's garn to Spatry on me leg iron fer a gander at some new kecks |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I used to work in black country I used to hear
upple meaning apple
rut -- rat lol "
Correction opple is apple
And rot is rat, as in
Ah jus took wamal daahn the cut an ah _nny sidd a rot aightin opple, soo ah gid it a good owd terterin we a stick.
Or in plain English
I was walking my dog along the canal and To my supprise i saw a rat eating an apple, so I despatched the rodent with a stick.
Proud to have been bought up in the Black Country the only place I know off where it's not offensive to call someone a wench and ask for a suck lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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For anyone who wants ro understand the Scouse dialect, there are some learn yourself scouse books on sale in the albert dock.
Tatty ed- girl
ees got an ed as big as birkenhead - very confident person. |
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The older generation of my mums family all still speak in broad Norfolk and I still use a few phases on a regular basis...sounds a little odd and i get some 'funny goid' looks as I sound more northern than Norfolk now! I 'reckan' Norfolk folk must think I'm a 'furrnier'. And I'm forever telling the kids to stop talking 'popple' and 'squit' or they 'git' a 'thacking'
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I was born in Greenock, Scotland and my nana used to say 'stop yer greetin' if we were crying over nothing and 'hod yer wheesht' if she wanted someone to shut up. I've lived on the south coast of England since I was 6 so I don't know if they still use those expressions up there. Anyone? "
I said for goodness sake will you no just hod yer wheesht to a kid a work last week , not only did he stop talking but every member of staff did as well. They then asked me what it meant |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Owd yeh osses, a canna under stand a werd me owd
South Derbyshire for, plese slow down, I cant understand you  "
Owed yeh oases, same thing in the Black Country, interesting  |
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I moved down South a few years ago from Scunthorpe, and some words I used had never been heard of down here.
Snicket - the little alleyway between houses leading to another street.
Crogger - someone sitting on the seat of your bicycle while you stood up and peddled.
Black bright - dirty, from playing outside.
Snap - lunch (although we called it dinner), usually sandwiches.
Barm cake - bread bun.
There are loads of others, but can't think of them now.
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Snappin - food (usually a packed lunch)
Nesh - someone who complains that it's too cold
Pot Bank - pottery factory
The famous local phrase is "cos kick a bow agen a wowe an yed it til thee bost it?"  |
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