British Dialect Meme
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jaceyThanks to la_marquise_de_ for this. Much more suitable than the US one that's been doing the rounds:
la_marquise_de_ for this. Much more suitable than the US one that's been doing the rounds:1. The space between two buildings containing a footpath: ginnel (hard G) or snicket. Snicket is more likely to be between bushes not between buildings. York has snickleways.
2. A knitted item of clothing worn over a shirt, without buttons: jumper, pullover
3. The act of not going to something that you're supposed to go to: skiving or laikin' (laiking particularly as in not going to work) and bunking off as in not going to school
4. Playground game in which someone is "it" and has to touch someone else who then becomes "it.": tigs
5. Playground truce term when you want a break from the above games Can't recall anything specific
6. Playground term you say when you want to claim something: I bags this.
7. Slip-on shoes worn for school sports in the days before trainers: pumps
8. Small round bread – teacake (if it's flattish and very soft with no discernible hardening at the 'crust'); breadcake if it's round and flattish and a more dense consistency; bread roll if it's spherical and a more dense consistency with the option of being crisper on the outside). Something dense, bigger, flat, round and and then divided into quarters to make nearly-triangles is a scuffler.
9. Sweet course that follows the main course: pudding, afters, sweet or dessert
10. Scone: pronounced to rhyme with "gone" or with "moan": moan.
11. Generic term for a bird: bird. spuggy for sparrow
12. Round food stuff made with batter on a griddle, which is brown on the outside: lots of regional variants. pikelett or pancake depending on whether it has holes or is deep or is very flat and thin.
13. A delicacy that you feel is particularly local to you: Yorkshire pudding
14. Term of endearment: love (pron. luv) or silly bugger
15. Someone who's soft and easily feels the cold: nesh
16. Tourists: rare
17. A field boundary: wall or hedge or fence depending entirely on what it's made of. (mostly dry stone walls here)
18. You see a group of animals standing in a farm building. They have udders and go moo. Complete the following sentence: "Look at those ____ standing in that ____!" Cows, byre
19. You haven't had anything to eat in a long time, and your stomach is letting you know about it. You would also like to be warmer. You say: starving cold (but my granny would have said clemmed)
20. Your friends invite you to enter a haunted house: you demur. What do they call you, by way of a derisive taunt? yeller
21. A man who dresses flashily with lots of expensive jewellery is a ____: medallion man or spiv... maybe wide-boy
22. What do you say in a shop when you are handed your change? Thank you or ta
23. Generic friendly greeting: hello, hi, hiya,
24. Slang term for a pair of trousers: kecks, trollies
25. Slang term for left-handed: Dorky-handed
26. Pronunciation of Shrewsbury? Newcastle? Glasgow? Shrewsbury (rhyme with shrew - yes i know it's wrong); NEWcastle (emphasis on the ist syllable, yes i know it's wrong), Glasgow. Try 'Slaithwaite' (sla'witt) or Wombwell (wum-well) or Penistone (penny-stone)
27. Two pieces of bread with a filling: sandwich, sarnie or butty
28. A playground way of saying someone is out of order: They'd get called names (insult du jour)
29. Dialect terms for hands, ears, face – and, indeed, for any other body parts you care to name: mits, lugs, mug, conk (and I'm not going any further down)
30. Terms for someone who looks miserable: mardy. a mardy-arse, miserable-as-sin,
31. Potatoes: spuds. taties
32. Pale round food stuff with a brown base, lots of holes in it, which you serve hot with butter: now those are pikelets
2. A knitted item of clothing worn over a shirt, without buttons: jumper, pullover
3. The act of not going to something that you're supposed to go to: skiving or laikin' (laiking particularly as in not going to work) and bunking off as in not going to school
4. Playground game in which someone is "it" and has to touch someone else who then becomes "it.": tigs
5. Playground truce term when you want a break from the above games Can't recall anything specific
6. Playground term you say when you want to claim something: I bags this.
7. Slip-on shoes worn for school sports in the days before trainers: pumps
8. Small round bread – teacake (if it's flattish and very soft with no discernible hardening at the 'crust'); breadcake if it's round and flattish and a more dense consistency; bread roll if it's spherical and a more dense consistency with the option of being crisper on the outside). Something dense, bigger, flat, round and and then divided into quarters to make nearly-triangles is a scuffler.
9. Sweet course that follows the main course: pudding, afters, sweet or dessert
10. Scone: pronounced to rhyme with "gone" or with "moan": moan.
11. Generic term for a bird: bird. spuggy for sparrow
12. Round food stuff made with batter on a griddle, which is brown on the outside: lots of regional variants. pikelett or pancake depending on whether it has holes or is deep or is very flat and thin.
13. A delicacy that you feel is particularly local to you: Yorkshire pudding
14. Term of endearment: love (pron. luv) or silly bugger
15. Someone who's soft and easily feels the cold: nesh
16. Tourists: rare
17. A field boundary: wall or hedge or fence depending entirely on what it's made of. (mostly dry stone walls here)
18. You see a group of animals standing in a farm building. They have udders and go moo. Complete the following sentence: "Look at those ____ standing in that ____!" Cows, byre
19. You haven't had anything to eat in a long time, and your stomach is letting you know about it. You would also like to be warmer. You say: starving cold (but my granny would have said clemmed)
20. Your friends invite you to enter a haunted house: you demur. What do they call you, by way of a derisive taunt? yeller
21. A man who dresses flashily with lots of expensive jewellery is a ____: medallion man or spiv... maybe wide-boy
22. What do you say in a shop when you are handed your change? Thank you or ta
23. Generic friendly greeting: hello, hi, hiya,
24. Slang term for a pair of trousers: kecks, trollies
25. Slang term for left-handed: Dorky-handed
26. Pronunciation of Shrewsbury? Newcastle? Glasgow? Shrewsbury (rhyme with shrew - yes i know it's wrong); NEWcastle (emphasis on the ist syllable, yes i know it's wrong), Glasgow. Try 'Slaithwaite' (sla'witt) or Wombwell (wum-well) or Penistone (penny-stone)
27. Two pieces of bread with a filling: sandwich, sarnie or butty
28. A playground way of saying someone is out of order: They'd get called names (insult du jour)
29. Dialect terms for hands, ears, face – and, indeed, for any other body parts you care to name: mits, lugs, mug, conk (and I'm not going any further down)
30. Terms for someone who looks miserable: mardy. a mardy-arse, miserable-as-sin,
31. Potatoes: spuds. taties
32. Pale round food stuff with a brown base, lots of holes in it, which you serve hot with butter: now those are pikelets
