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Lucylastic -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 1:30:41 PM)

just a question, when did "boat race", become replaced with "chevy chase"
was it after ghostbusters?



PeonForHer -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 1:37:21 PM)

Thing about cockney rhyming slang is that it's not very old, apparently. I guess it can't be, when you consider terms like 'dog' (dog and bone) for phone and 'gregory' (gregory peck) for neck. An even more modern one - Gary, for the anus, is derived from Gary Glitter = shitter. Fairly obvious why that new bit of CRS caught on so quickly, given Mr Glitter's fall from grace.



Lucylastic -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 1:54:20 PM)

yeah I can see it being replaced, I just wondered when it 'appened, me old china
but my ol grandad would be turnin in his grave.
Got the hump?
is another one people ask me about
as are "mardy" and "havin a strop"
your doin my 'ead in is english, altho Ive heard it a lot in scotland too
of course 'ead, becomes "heed"
wobbly pop for beer....
oh and my old favourite, you are givin me gbh of the bleedin ear.



tiggerspoohbear -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 2:02:08 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

just a question, when did "boat race", become replaced with "chevy chase"
was it after ghostbusters?

I don't know about that, but when I was a young buckarette I did loooove to go to the submarine races. [sm=modxiiswatching.gif]



jlf1961 -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 2:08:30 PM)


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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

If I were in the USA and were to say 'yes' to that, I'd get the FBI knocking at my door, wouldn't I. you scallywag!



Actually, a "stock tank" is a man made pond to provide water for cattle, and of course to stock catfish and bass in for fishing.

Then in the mountains of western North Carolina, a cove is an area beneath the ridge of a mountain where the ridge takes a turn. A holler is a hollow, and a branch is a small crik, not to be confused with a creek which is bigger.



KMsAngel -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 2:16:08 PM)


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ORIGINAL: MercTech



Hmm, "flat out" where I grew up was "at top speed". = yes, flat out like a lizard drinking is going very fast (or saying you're very busy)
I know that "paying off a dead horse" in the Navy was paying back a pay advance you took out for an unforeseen expense or pocket cash for a vacation. = dead horse is tomato sauce (ketchup). pretty sure you have to have a brit or aussie accent to get the horse/sauce connection right [:)]. that cockney rhyming slang. i was horrified the first time someone asked me for some dead horse at a BBQ

Curios on the rest or if different where you live.




AlexisANew -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 2:58:19 PM)

Arse about face = back to front. Bladdered = drunk. Shufti = to look. Sweet fanny adams = nothing at all. Put paid to = to put an end to.

And little Yorkshire speak,

Popped ‘is cloggs = he died

Put wood i’th’oil = close the door, though my grandpa used to say this when he wanted my gran to be shut up.

American words that make no sense to me,

Fanny pack! A fanny in English is obviously a woman's pussy but I know in America it means a butt. A fanny pack sounds to the English like something a woman would stuff down her knickers when she has her period. yep it really does sound bad!

Restroom. Why would you call a toilet somewhere to rest?

What is Jello ? and what's a traffic circle? and am I right in believing a Zucchini is a courgette ? and an eggplant is an aubergine?











hlen5 -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 3:07:25 PM)

Jello is gelatin, a traffic circle is four roads connected to a circle. You take the portion of the circle you need to get to the road you want.

Why would you call a toilet room the powder room? Subterfuge!

And you are correct on the zuchinni and eggplant!



Lucylastic -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 3:58:10 PM)


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ORIGINAL: AlexisANew

Arse about face = back to front. Bladdered = drunk. Shufti = to look. Sweet fanny adams = nothing at all. Put paid to = to put an end to.

And little Yorkshire speak,

Popped ‘is cloggs = he died

Put wood i’th’oil = close the door, though my grandpa used to say this when he wanted my gran to be shut up.

American words that make no sense to me,

Fanny pack! A fanny in English is obviously a woman's pussy but I know in America it means a butt. A fanny pack sounds to the English like something a woman would stuff down her knickers when she has her period. yep it really does sound bad!

Restroom. Why would you call a toilet somewhere to rest?

What is Jello ? and what's a traffic circle? and am I right in believing a Zucchini is a courgette ? and an eggplant is an aubergine?




My mum is from lincolnshire, great gran and grandfather from yorkshire:) your post made me homesick
so I thought I would add a couple more that you made me think about

Arse Over Tit (Fall over hard...) my gran used to say arse over teakettle
Having a butchers (taking a look see)
Sweet Fanny Adams was Sweet Fuck all(nothing)
Zero, zero, bugger all, blank.(nothing)
He kicked the bucket chuck.




Lucylastic -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 3:59:23 PM)

We would know traffic circles as roundabouts :)



Dvr22999874 -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 4:23:09 PM)

Got the wobbly boots on .......Drunk
Three sheets to the wind.......Drunk
Pissed as a parrot...............Drunk
Talking chinese sideways...........Drunk
Neutered...........Drunk
Plastered...............Drunk



Lucylastic -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 4:25:58 PM)

pissed as a fart---drunk
brain like a sieve..forgetful
youre like a fart in a colander....dithery



doctorgrey -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 4:41:55 PM)

Going back to "dead horse", would that be from an American or British derivation?

Dead horse, to me, comes from "flogging a dead horse", or persuing a lost cause cause - pointless excercise.
Pronounced 'orse, of course!

DrG - glottal-stoppin' aitch-dropper that I am.



Lucylastic -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 4:54:20 PM)

aitch droppers of the world unite !!!!



Dvr22999874 -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 4:55:03 PM)

I think you might find that 'dead-horse' is an australianism, just as 'corned-horse' is the term for silverside of beef or corned beef as the americans call it.
Gone burko...........gone crazy
Off Tap............slightly nuts
Like a fart in a pickle bottle.............running around in ever-decreasing circles and accomplishing sweet fanny adams.
Sky West and Crooked......................all wrong and mixed up



LadyConstanze -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 4:57:07 PM)

Is somebody taking the piss?



Lucylastic -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 5:01:02 PM)

its not aus only
floggin a dead orse been around for donkeys years
or orse years:)

Extracting the urine you mean LC???
Takin the michael was around when Michael Caine was big in the 60s...* he hated being called Mickey or something*



LadyConstanze -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 5:02:34 PM)

Oh people here still take the Mickey...



Dvr22999874 -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 5:05:22 PM)

Wouldn't know shit from putty until his windows fell out........................doesn't have a clue or is incredibly stupid.



LadyConstanze -> RE: Fortnight regional language (3/14/2014 5:08:09 PM)

And you don't want to ask for a ride in the UK



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