Regional dialects...
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Amusing piece on the innumerable regional dialects that exist in the UK and the vast number of slang/local words that each region produces that are incomprehensible to anyone else. UK dialects 'strong and varied' [^] So, what's the most unusual slang word (not crude!) that exists only in your locale?
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It annoys me a hell of a lot that on national TV and radio in the UK there are no people with rural dialects doing anything other than gardening programs. Even on BBC local radio here in Cornwall, you never get someone with a local accent reading the news, only doing snippets like the travel or weather reports. Most of their presenters don't have a local accent, and many aren't from the area and can't even pronounce placenames properly. :mad: Exits left, muttering.
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Or the yank who told a bunch of British school children to be quiet and sit right down on their fannies. regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and WebTwoZero. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
Paul Watson wrote: Or the yank who told a bunch of British school children to be quiet and sit right down on their fannies. Or the Indian student who asked his American lady-classmate for a rubber :-D
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It annoys me a hell of a lot that on national TV and radio in the UK there are no people with rural dialects doing anything other than gardening programs. Even on BBC local radio here in Cornwall, you never get someone with a local accent reading the news, only doing snippets like the travel or weather reports. Most of their presenters don't have a local accent, and many aren't from the area and can't even pronounce placenames properly. :mad: Exits left, muttering.
Yeah but your coucils are getting their revenge arent they? You can only get a job there if you are cornish. You'll have to speak it next to work for local government! Anyway, how about emmets? You must know that one, as slang for tourists, and from the cornish word for ants. We use grockles for tourists in devon, along with wazzock for fool, janner, for a local person. Nunc est bibendum!
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Anonymous wrote: f***ing shagged Which is bloody confusing if you think about it. regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and WebTwoZero. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
Paul Watson wrote: Which is bloody confusing if you think about it. Its what the English language is best at. :laugh:
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: That rather reminds me of the old one about the Brit who walked into a shop in the US and asked for a fag... :rolleyes: Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
I remeber hearding about a British guy asking to have his fringe cut in a barbers in New Orleans. Fringe over their means you public hair line. Naturally, they barber kicked him out on his ass. :laugh: For those in the US, the fringe in th UK is your hair line at the front of your head.
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Yeah but your coucils are getting their revenge arent they? You can only get a job there if you are cornish. You'll have to speak it next to work for local government! Anyway, how about emmets? You must know that one, as slang for tourists, and from the cornish word for ants. We use grockles for tourists in devon, along with wazzock for fool, janner, for a local person. Nunc est bibendum!
fat_boy wrote: Yeah but your coucils are getting their revenge arent they? You can only get a job there if you are cornish. Eh? Get a job where? Local councils have loads of non-Cornish! You'll have to speak it next to work for local government! Hag an pyth yw kamm gans henna? Rann dhe les a'gan istori yw! Anyway, how about emmets? You must know that one, as slang for tourists, and from the cornish word for ants. It's from Anglo-Saxon for ants actually - Cornish for ants is moryon.
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Did you ever hear Mike Harding's Red Specs album? The sketch where he describes how he lost his cherry to a passing dog on a windy New York Street had me in absolute stitches when I was a kid....:rolleyes: Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :-O regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and WebTwoZero. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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Paul Watson wrote: Or the yank who told a bunch of British school children to be quiet and sit right down on their fannies. Or the Indian student who asked his American lady-classmate for a rubber :-D
hehe yeah. That one always irritated me in school. Back in my home town a rubber was an eraser and not a condom. But on moving to Cape Town I found that all the kids called them erasers and would giggle like nutters when I asked for a rubber. I felt like screaming "We are not American!" but that would not have gone down well with all the American Wannabes in schools here. regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and WebTwoZero. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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fat_boy wrote: Yeah but your coucils are getting their revenge arent they? You can only get a job there if you are cornish. Eh? Get a job where? Local councils have loads of non-Cornish! You'll have to speak it next to work for local government! Hag an pyth yw kamm gans henna? Rann dhe les a'gan istori yw! Anyway, how about emmets? You must know that one, as slang for tourists, and from the cornish word for ants. It's from Anglo-Saxon for ants actually - Cornish for ants is moryon.
hmm, quite correct, I was led to believe emmets was celtic, I just checked and it is old english like you say. I guess you cant believe all you read! Re the councils though, I forget which one it was, perhaps near 'larnson', which was starting to mandate 'cornishness' as an employee attribute. I must say I am impressed to see you know cornish, there arent many who speak it! Nunc est bibendum!
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hmm, quite correct, I was led to believe emmets was celtic, I just checked and it is old english like you say. I guess you cant believe all you read! Re the councils though, I forget which one it was, perhaps near 'larnson', which was starting to mandate 'cornishness' as an employee attribute. I must say I am impressed to see you know cornish, there arent many who speak it! Nunc est bibendum!
fat_boy wrote: I must say I am impressed to see you know cornish, there arent many who speak it! Current best estimates are around 500 fluent speakers, and up to around 3,500 who can hold a simple conversation. You're looking at many thousands who know some words like the name of their town/street/surname. There are classes in East Cornwall if you're interested...
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fat_boy wrote: I must say I am impressed to see you know cornish, there arent many who speak it! Current best estimates are around 500 fluent speakers, and up to around 3,500 who can hold a simple conversation. You're looking at many thousands who know some words like the name of their town/street/surname. There are classes in East Cornwall if you're interested...
I should be more interested, it being the original British, Brythonic celtic, language, but, as I live in Belgium, where French and Dutch are spoken, I doubt I will do it. I guess if I lived in Britany I would do. Also, dutch and french are very interesting languages to learn, as almost all of present day english comes from these languages (OK, old english is a relative of dutch, but it is quite a close one). For example, hunger in english comes from honger in dutch. Faimished in english comes from faim in french. This makes them very interesting to learn as they often give insight into the original meaning of the word in english. eg, delay does not realy mean late, it just means a period of time, as in the french delai. Nunc est bibendum!
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :-O regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and WebTwoZero. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
The sketch was called A Limey in New York[^].... "A Yank in Burnley" was just as bad (and equally hillarious). Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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I remeber hearding about a British guy asking to have his fringe cut in a barbers in New Orleans. Fringe over their means you public hair line. Naturally, they barber kicked him out on his ass. :laugh: For those in the US, the fringe in th UK is your hair line at the front of your head.
"Je pense, donc je mange." - Rene Descartes 1689 - Just before his mother put his tea on the table. Shameless Plug - Distributed Database Transactions in .NET using COM+
You learn something new each day. :rolleyes: It now appears I have two fringes, when before I only knew of one. Obviously, this means I now need a hairdresser with slightly wider experience than previously. I'm told Brazilians are in fashion right now, though whether they know much about fringes only time will tell...;) Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.