My hubby says "mardy", he's originally from Scunthorpe.

Being Scottish, we have thousands of words and phrases that nobody else understands.

Clype, Dreich, Footer Aboot, Glaikit etc etc.

Of course, I don't use any of those word, 'cos I speak awfully "Pan Loafy".

Do you need a translation, Renton?

Hello Yogi ((hug)))

Yes please - translate - the funnier the better

Need to sleep after lonnng nightshift so i look forward to reading a few

 

My Mum used to say CUDDY meaning horse (rarely, if ever, used these days)

She'd say, "I've got cuddy loads of washing to do"

Meaning horse loads - or - a lot

LOL

I moved from Suffolk to Geordieland, they think I'm Australian My Suffolk friends say my tone has changed a bit, and I do say things like; canny, hoy, mardi, shut your trumpet, aye, why aye, marra.. Lately I'm making an extra effort to speak normally though because I don't wanna to change

Most of them I can't use any NE dialect dahn Sarf, they just look blank

I used to live near Rotherham years ago and being an original yorkie lass "mardy" was often used,  you may find she speaks a lot faster and loses the end of her words (especially g in "ing" )  and if she ever says shutthigoborralsmackthi  RUN

I love "shoogly" I'm from Glasgow,it means wobbly as in  "That chair's got a shoogly leg."

Hi Renton.

Cuddy means "horse" up here, too. We used to say a wee rhyme about a cuudy called Jock.

 

Translation as follows:

Clype = telltale

Dreich = damp, dismal (usually used to describe the weather)

Footer aboot = fiddle/mess about with (a wee footer is a wee nuisance)

Glaikit - stupid

Pan Loafy = posh accent

Or a shoogly tooth? I love shoogly, it's a great word.

I don't speak Devonshire/Janner (thank goodness) but words that are used are:

 

Lem

Dimpsey

Y'ere T'is

Me'ansom

 

Bonus points for translation

I love the word Mardy,

That tennis player Mardy Fish makes me smile everytime I hear his name. He sounds like something that gives you food poisoning.

 

We have plenty of local words ( for local people) here in London. I'm not sure how many I could put on here.

We used to use the word Grockle when I lived in Dorset which I think is also a Cornish/Devonish word!

I suppose I've got what they call a generic English 'received pronounciation' accent. I live in Sarf London now and some of the mums at my son's primary school have said to me 'Int you well spoken?'  I never think I'm posh but they do take the pish out of me and say I sound like royalty.

However, having been born and initially bred in W. Africa I can easily slip in to a form of 'Pidgin' English street slang (which fills my highly educated mother with dread even though she's been known to talk it too).

My English Grandmother was from the NE so I got an early insight in to regional dialects when I was little (even though she'd been in London for most of her life, she still had a trace of Durham), I think I was the only kid in my primary school in West London calling everyone 'pet' or 'hinny' 

My older kids also do all that 'yoof' speak. 'Buff tings'; '(al)low it'; 'Jam your hype fam'...I find it quite amusing. How language evolves interests me.

Brisket would have loved this thread 

I wondered if it was something like that... my mam said she was drahked the other day (I have no idea if thats spelled right), meaning she was soaked through after being caught in the rain. I'm not convinced that she isn't just making words up

In my bit of scotland, we would say "drookit" for soaked, so it sounds quite similar.

Although neither of us are from this area, I'm sure we have picked up a bit of the lazy, flat, and glottal stop rich, local twang. Mrs Jer has imported nesh, parky, and unusual word order. I have imported "How ist?" "Ist er comin down pub?" etc. Which is how my area sounded before it were bought up by middle class and  turned  inter a northern Bournmuth.

Haha, class warrior Joe! According to some definitions, I'd say you've got a little upper middle class about you too 

That's the nicest thing anybody has ever said about me.

Shurley Not! Can't buy class like yours, though 

There's an old Irish saying....tá sé (spelled phonetically) mahogunay ...I don't know what the last bit is supposed to be, but I expect it's supposed to be something like 'go maith inniu' or something like that.  It's a saying in Irish, the true wording of which has got lost in the mists of time   so anyone I've ever asked can't tell me what it actually is, but it means, 'that's/everything's grand'

 

But you see, the Dubs can't leave anything alone   so because they can't understand what it means they put their own twist on it...so the saying now is 'tá sé mahogony gaspipes'

 

It's funny in my head

 

 

Hahahaha, I'm so glad I listened to that. It really tickled me  I'll listen to other one later when I get home. Erin 

*stops shooglin her leg and footerin wi her hair *

Brilliant! ! 

I don't know whether you'd really call refer to it as a dialect but I've kind of retained or inherited Gaelic words that are in common usage such as my mother would always say a ghrá which means my love for example Pengy a ghrá, please put the kettle on.  The only place I hear this any more is in the West of Ireland.

 

The other thing we said was mavourneen which I understood to mean my darling but whenever my mother said it, it was always with a sarkey tone such as - take a look at mavourneen over there - meaning there was something odd or different about that person.

 

There's obviously lots of Irish words that are used instead of an English word but I think some are dying out from use with my generation 

 

 

In Birmingham they say boster or bostin for something that is really good, blartin for crying, canting for gossiping and the one that flummoxed me when I first got here was piece for a slice of bread and butter or a sandwich 

 love this one!!

Its odd how things get exchanged in different areas - thats travel for you, i guess

In GeordieLand we also use

BLARTIN' - but this is seriously dying out and a word of the past.

GLAKEY (a bit like Glaikit) - a word for being a bit stupid, used rarely these days

 

PET - never used from male to male as it means sweetheart, love or darling

HINNY - used by anyone, to anyone as it means friends or matey (and sadly dying out big time up here)

Yea Renton it's vey descriptive too, "aww naw wur tables goat a shoogly leg!" Then you stick a folded beer mat under it to stop it shoogling.

I'm loving shoogly/shoogling Renton, I've only ever heard hinny used to women/kids - I'd never call a blerk hinny

Har har at Peter Reed is deid!

That's what I used to call my primary school friends in Ealing....apparently I even called the teacher that too in first year  I didn't have a clue why I was saying it, just that my Durham born Nana used to call us it at home and it must have sounded good. I still like hearing my NE family speaking, it sounds like they're singing sometimes when they're in full pelt.

 

I get alot of '(al)low' here too..   & "boid/boyd' too..    from the girl!    It kinda makes me laugh at first..   til the boy gets hold of it (he usually a late adopter of the lingo) & thrashes the arse out of it (everything is "fail" at the moment).. 

 

Hubby's accent is "received pronunciation" too..    and yeah, he does sound a bit posh (we always nominate him to deal with anything official )

 

I have a slight essex drawl..   but when very drunk or angry...  or sometimes just out of nowhere..  my northern roots come tumbling out (to the amusement of the family)

Do they say PEAK too Ditty? My lot say it when someone gets pwned (I can't believe I'm writing this! )

I'm the opposite, my hubby is Southend Essex (no no no, it's Westcliff he screams at me) and sometimes he sounds like a right geezer 

You mean RP stands for Received Pronunciation, not Reet Posh?

 

 

 And no...   had never heard PEAK...  just asked the girl & she scowled at me with disgust and said "no..  dunno what it means"..   I told her  & she said "no... never heard it... it doesn't even make any sense".. 

 

I replied "and 'allow' does?"

 

She said "no, but it just caught on"

 

 

I give it 3 months before she is giving it "peak" to me 

Reet Posh will do Saz! 

Ah Fam Dat's Peak Doh, Ya Zi Mi 

 

now knowing the translation for Peak..    I understood that sentence perfectly!