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Post by Humph on Jul 17, 2024 10:42:57 GMT
Was reflecting and conversing with the family last night on words and phrases commonly used only in specific regions of Britain.
From my Edinburgh childhood I can recall a few.
Slater - Woodlouse
Syver- street drain
Roan or roan pipes - Gutters or gutter pipes
Spyug- Sparrow
Bampot or Raj - an enraged individual
Stoory - dusty
Shotty! - Look out!
Seesahuddy - please pass me (as in seesahuddy yon screwdriver)
Cuddy- horse
Umumnae - I won’t or I am not.
Cludgie - toilet
Bawbag - an individual unworthy of respect
Any contributions from other readers?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2024 11:36:12 GMT
My colloquialisms are as influenced by where I grew up as who I grew up with - parents and grandparents all come from elsewhere.
Cheesehog/Cheeselog (opinion is divided on the matter) - woodlouse (Berks)
Dilly - hole in the ground (Berks, I assume, but never heard anyone else say it come to think of it, maybe it came from one of my grandparents)
Cockspugga - sparrow (London)
Hinny - affectionate term for absolutely anyone (Northumbrian)
Bairns - children (Jockanese and Northumbrian)
Mela - OK, and just about anything else you want it to mean (Maltese)
Snicket - alleyway/shortcut (Dunno where that's from)
Drum - house (London)
Chavvie - child (London)
All the cockernee rhyming slangs - dustbin lids for kids, trouble and strife for wife, skin and blister for sister etc etc...
Several unpublishable racist slurs from my Maltese Grandad who grew up in India
There are probably many, many more...
It's interesting to hear your Edinburgh ones, my forebears came from a bit further north and I don't recognise many of those you posted, Humph. They probably assimilated to London dialect though so I probably didn't hear many at all as I'm a couple of generations hence and I suppose they got lost. Funnily enough I was out visiting the house my Scottish forebears lived in for a while this weekend, in Mile End (before they shifted west to Fulham), which was in the midst of several pubs as it happens, so sampled the delights of each one just to make sure I'd been in their favourite haunt for sentimental reasons, you understand.
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Post by Humph on Jul 17, 2024 11:40:24 GMT
Re your snicket, in Embra, that would be a close.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2024 11:42:29 GMT
Thinking about Snicket, it might have come from my schoolmate who was from Swansea. Proper melting pot down here.  |
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Post by Humph on Jul 17, 2024 11:51:29 GMT
“Aye” can be used in multiple ways.
Ok
?
Dismay
Joy
Hello
Goodbye
Doubt
Certainty
and many more…
In fact it is possible to conduct an entire conversation using only that word provided the other participant provides enough context.
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Post by Humph on Jul 17, 2024 12:02:03 GMT
Schemie - an individual hailing from social housing.
Weegie - a once or current resident of Glasgow. As in “Aye, he’s a Weegie but he’s no daft”. 😉
Black affrontet - embarrassed
Teuchter - anyone who doesn’t live in a city.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2024 12:18:09 GMT
Teuchter's Landing is now a great place for eats and drinks in Leith. Went there before the rugby this year, followed by a wee crawl of local brewery taps. Love Embra. Couple more: Bundle - stramash Pagga - stramash again Dinkins - a beating, usually the result of a stramash Leo Sayer - all day drinking session Gorillas (modern) - resulting state of person following a Leo Sayer, rhyming with the title of an emotional film, about large primates, starring Sigourney Weaver. |
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Post by Humph on Jul 17, 2024 12:21:28 GMT
“Down South” starts at Carlisle and encompasses the entire land mass of England and Wales.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2024 12:24:17 GMT
Apart from the (occupied) bits of England north of Carlisle, I presume?
In London football parlance, any club west of (and often including) Brentford is Welsh.
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Post by Humph on Jul 17, 2024 12:30:30 GMT
A sub form of pagar, or at least a contribution to one is the pittintheheidoan manoeuvre. Otherwise known as stotting.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2024 13:21:24 GMT
You'll have had your tea.
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Post by Humph on Jul 17, 2024 13:26:04 GMT
The linguistic oddity I remember finding the most strange when I first moved to the north of England was everyone, even people I didn’t know, constantly asking me if I was “alright” whenever we met. I began to wonder if I looked ill!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2024 13:33:03 GMT
Often heard the expression "right enough" rather than "all right" all over Scotland, but never in England. Never really gave it much thought until I twigged recently that that it's a direct translation of the Gaelic expression "ceart gu leòr".
I had an English teacher in my prep school who was obsessed with using "all right" as opposed to "alright". If anyone was caught writing "alright" in their work, they were given the 100 lines punishment instantly, the line being "Alright is a horrible Americanism".
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Post by EspadaIII on Jul 17, 2024 13:50:33 GMT
Snicket is probably a ginnel in the north west.
Mither? Pronoucned My-ther = trouble. "Pay your arrears and I won't give you any mither"
In the South West - Grockle = tourist.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2024 13:57:28 GMT
My school mate, who, despite having been born in Windsor, grew up in Doncaster before returning south (Army brat) and then onwards to Cardiff for University and now resides in San Jose California, taught me his grandfather's Yorkshire wisdom, and it's always stuck with me:
See all hear all say nowt,
Sup all eat all pay nowt,
And if ever tha does owt fer nowt, allus do it for thisen.
Anyway, bit Derby Road out today, as they say in Nottingham rhyming slang.
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