England's Dying languages

**RDN** · 08-04-2007, 11:36 PM

"Give us a shufti" = Give us a look [Hindustani]
"No hab" = I don't have any [Thai]

**stroller** · 08-04-2007, 11:46 PM

Gizza fag mate. (may I have one of your cigarettes, please, my friend?[chav/parochial])

**thaibook** · 09-04-2007, 02:15 AM

What about coming up north here to Scotland...I sometimes need a translator when I head to Glasgow...

**in4zip** · 09-04-2007, 08:41 AM

Originally Posted by danbo

Most near everyone knows how to speak, but precious few know what to say.

errata corrige

Originally Posted by danbo

Most near everyone knows how to speak, but precious few know what they say.

**geoff** · 24-05-2007, 09:50 PM

I'm a Lancashire lad, originally, and you will find that a Lancashire accent, is different from a Manchester accent.
Also, Gob is an old word for a sailor. So there.
I'm not a very good linguist, but, after several bootles of Singha, I can speak what sounds like fluent Swahili, or affluent Swahili,.

**Marmite the Dog** · 26-05-2007, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by geoff

I'm not a very good linguist, but, after several bootles of Singha, I can speak what sounds like fluent Swahili, or affluent Swahili,.

As long as it's not effluent Swahili, you'll probably be ok.

**geoff** · 30-05-2007, 01:48 AM

I don't know if is true, but the nearest speakers of the Queens English is spoken in,Inverness, in Scotland.

**Little Chuchok** · 30-05-2007, 02:25 AM

^oh ffs!

**Sir Burr** · 30-05-2007, 09:48 AM

Originally Posted by geoff

I'm not a very good linguist, but, after several bootles of Singha, I can speak what sounds like fluent Swahili, or affluent Swahili,.

Jambo!

**danbo** · 02-06-2007, 12:40 AM

A very apt article from The Independent:

Dialect researchers given a 'canny load of chink' to sort 'pikeys' from 'chavs' in regional accents - Independent Online Edition > This Britain

There's some crackers here - my favourites

Northern Ireland
Scrake of dawn: very early

Tyneside
Copper wife: policewoman

Liverpool
Latchlifter: having enough money to go to the pub

Yorkshire
Clarty: muddy <-My absolute favourite

Black Country
Ronk: horrible

Somerset
Noggerhead: idiot

Mid-Wales
Unty tump: mole hill

Wiltshire
Loppity: to feel weak or out of sorts

Norfolk
Bishy-barney-bee: ladybird

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