Author Topic: Regional English (Read 2814 times)

« **on:** July 09, 2006, 10:03:20 am »

Does anyone have any examples of dialect from their own area?

I'll start us off with some Nottingham gems:

Wor e we is sen? = Was he by himself?

Didjugadahn? = Did you you go to see Nottingham Forest play?

Did yer gerowt? = Did you meet any nice ladies?

EasterBunny · « **Reply #1 on:** July 09, 2006, 12:14:37 pm »

Norfolk

I aren't sure= I don't know

I got wrong= I was told off

on the wonk= not straight (wonky)

hang you on= wait a minute

pollywiggles= tadpoles

And in Norfolk they "look at" the television or a book rather than "watch" or "read"

Forth Bridges · « **Reply #2 on:** July 09, 2006, 12:19:37 pm »

scotts land

ay I dina ken hen what on o boot =

I have no idea what she is taking about woman

« **Reply #3 on:** July 09, 2006, 12:27:32 pm »

EasterBunny I just love pollywiggles. I'll never call them anything else. Pollywiggles hee hee!

EasterBunny · « **Reply #4 on:** July 09, 2006, 12:37:09 pm »

If you love pollywiggles, try these Norfolk creatures see if you can work them out:

Bishy-barneybee, Sukey, Mavish, Coney, Dodman, Erriwiggle, Fresher, Mouse-hunt and Sea-Pie (you should know that one)

There is a Pollywiggle Close in Norwich, I really wanted to live there, even looked at a house there because if its name!

« **Reply #5 on:** July 09, 2006, 01:08:21 pm »

bishy baneybee - some sort of insect, presumably not a bee. Since ladybird is the most popular insect i'll go for that but it's a guess.

Erriwiggle - earwig?

Sea-pie - Oystercatcher (the bird that got me into birdwatching!)

Don't know the others

smurfboy · « **Reply #6 on:** July 09, 2006, 01:37:01 pm »

'It's looking black over the back of Bill's mother's' - It looks like rain

'She had a face like fourpence' - She looked really pissed off

'She wants hitting with a red-hot stocking full of sh*t' - She needs some sense knocked into her

« **Reply #7 on:** July 09, 2006, 03:07:27 pm »

We have an expression, 'It's Black over Bill's Mother's' too.

However the pronounciation is completely different from standard English. For example, the o in mother's is like the o in hovers.

We have some other phrases:

'Gee it some ommer!' 'Give it a kick and it will work'

'Come in or'll fetch ya one round't tab. Come in or I'll give you a clip round the ears.

'Well I'll goo to ahrouse!' Gosh what a a surprise!'

phyllisbermann · « **Reply #8 on:** July 09, 2006, 03:13:12 pm »

« **Reply #9 on:** July 09, 2006, 03:55:35 pm »

'She has a face like she's been dookin' for chips.' I fear she has had a tad too much sun.

oldspice · « **Reply #10 on:** July 09, 2006, 05:31:45 pm »

As black a Newgate's knocker (he/she was dirty) - an east London saying.

Old boy - anyone male, whatever their age - Fens saying.

I didn't get back while Three o'clock (I didn't get back until 3 O'clock) - seems to be characteristic of the region north of Lincoln

EasterBunny · « **Reply #11 on:** July 09, 2006, 05:59:03 pm »

Bishy-barneybee is indeed a ladybird,

Sukey= a hare,

Mavish= a thrush,

Coney= a rabbit,

Dodman= a snail,

Erriwiggle= an earwig of course,

Fresher= a frog,

Mouse-hunt= a stoat, i like that one

and Sea-Pie, Bounty was right an Oyster Catcher

wjp666 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 09, 2006, 08:55:21 pm »

not quite the same, but has anyone ever eaten a dorset knob?

loulou · « **Reply #13 on:** July 09, 2006, 11:40:49 pm »

No but I've had an eccles cake.

phyllisbermann · « **Reply #14 on:** July 10, 2006, 12:09:30 am »

How now brown cow?

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