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seahorse
Senior Member

USA
1075 Posts

Posted - 12 May 2005 :  03:22:03  Show Profile  Visit seahorse's Homepage
Hi Folks,

I'm about 6 months into life in the UK and I have to tell you that I have no idea what some people are saying. Here's a few new words I've picked up far. Try and guess what they mean.

Hole in the wall:
butty:
bum bag:
dosh:
peckish:
pavement:
afters:
bangers:
wellies:
faff:

There are more, but nothing else comes to mind at the moment

Ken
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Hamlin
Advanced Member

United Kingdom
2386 Posts

Posted - 12 May 2005 :  04:02:51  Show Profile
bum bag? Are they around still, I thought they died out in the 90's. The rest I have no problem with
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HuwR
Forum Admin

United Kingdom
20584 Posts

Posted - 12 May 2005 :  04:52:08  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage
ok, here goes a translation

Hole in the wall - usually refers to an ATM cash machine
Butty - Sandwich
bum bag - in the US they are fanny bags I think (a fanny is something entirely different in english)
dosh - money
peckish - hungry
pavement - sidewalk
afters - bit difficult to explain this one, but means ofter eating something you go back for more
bangers - sausages
wellies - are in fact wellies, a rubber boot for your feet (wellington boot)
faff - means to to something in a non methodical way
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MarkJH
Senior Member

United Kingdom
1722 Posts

Posted - 12 May 2005 :  05:40:30  Show Profile  Visit MarkJH's Homepage
quote:
they are fanny bags I think
Fannypacks, isn't it?

quote:
afters - bit difficult to explain this one, but means ofter eating something you go back for more
You've got to love the English language. It's a regional thing too. 'afters' is what we call our dessert in this neck of the woods.

I remember talking to my future Canadian mother-in-law just the other day and telling her I was 'gobsmacked'. I think she thought that somebody had punched me in the face!

Seahorse, just wait 'til you have to deal with Cockney rhyming slang!

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MarkJH
Senior Member

United Kingdom
1722 Posts

Posted - 12 May 2005 :  05:46:18  Show Profile  Visit MarkJH's Homepage
Anyway, I should stop faffing around in here, get my bacon and eggs down the apples and pears and get some grub going (because I'm rather peckish - maybe a few sarnies?) and then get back to earning some bread & honey to pay the Burton-on-Trent!

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pdrg
Support Moderator

United Kingdom
2897 Posts

Posted - 12 May 2005 :  06:46:54  Show Profile  Send pdrg a Yahoo! Message
MarkJH - that's just mean, be kind to poor seahorse - he's still settling in and wondering why people snigger when he says 'pants' ;-)

Glad you're having fun with it seahorse :)
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seahorse
Senior Member

USA
1075 Posts

Posted - 12 May 2005 :  07:48:23  Show Profile  Visit seahorse's Homepage
I thought a butty was a bread roll for weeks before I realized it's actually a sandwich.

I'm learning more English English from my kid and he's in nursery.




Ken
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HuwR
Forum Admin

United Kingdom
20584 Posts

Posted - 12 May 2005 :  08:02:00  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage
a butty can also refer to a police car their traffic patrol cars were often called jam butties because of the stripe round the middle.

and don't forget here your car doesn't have a trunk only elephants do
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ChienFou
Starting Member

Belgium
33 Posts

Posted - 12 May 2005 :  09:53:23  Show Profile  Send ChienFou an ICQ Message
quote:
Originally posted by HuwR



and don't forget here your car doesn't have a trunk only elephants do



and no Hood or Muffler either
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Shaggy
Support Moderator

Ireland
6780 Posts

Posted - 12 May 2005 :  09:58:23  Show Profile
quote:
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. - George Bernard Shaw


Search is your friend
“I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the
fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had
taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.”
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seahorse
Senior Member

USA
1075 Posts

Posted - 12 May 2005 :  11:29:00  Show Profile  Visit seahorse's Homepage
"Sorted" is something I hear a lot.

Are you all sorted?

Not hard to figure out, but it slows you down a bit sometimes.

Some of the accents are pretty strong with some people. Really hard to catch some times.


Ken
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pdrg
Support Moderator

United Kingdom
2897 Posts

Posted - 12 May 2005 :  11:42:12  Show Profile  Send pdrg a Yahoo! Message
haha Manchester may be tricky but try Geordieland(Newcastle) - nobody understands them
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ChienFou
Starting Member

Belgium
33 Posts

Posted - 13 May 2005 :  05:11:42  Show Profile  Send ChienFou an ICQ Message
Yes, Geordies are not easy, neither is the Glaswegian accent either

seahorse, did you sort out your incorporation OK? I put a link on the thread where you mentioned it.
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pdrg
Support Moderator

United Kingdom
2897 Posts

Posted - 13 May 2005 :  06:57:23  Show Profile  Send pdrg a Yahoo! Message
And it's JAM not JELLY :)

Yesterday, one of my Hyderabad colleagues mixed absolute formality and infomality beautifully when trying to understand what I was explaining...'excuse me, please could you come again?'

One foreign friend, thinking she was using an English idiom correctly got a bit confused with 'b??l??ks' (censored, as in it's common form means dangleberries, but originally meant priests [NOTTINGHAM MAGISTRATES' COURT 24/11/77 - google for a transcript]).

in everyday UK parlance...

'b??l??ks' - something pretty bad
'the dog's b??l??ks' - something really good
'the b??l??ks' - abbreviated form of 'the dog's...'

So, in a presentation in front of her UK colleagues, she pointed to a page full of impressive numbers, and stated in all sincerity 'so as you'll see from the above, this really is b??l??ks' - so near yet so far...
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Shaggy
Support Moderator

Ireland
6780 Posts

Posted - 13 May 2005 :  07:11:42  Show Profile
Ooo, ta for that, Pdrg; now I know the derivation of my favourite word.


Search is your friend
“I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the
fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had
taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.”
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chumbawumba
Junior Member

United Kingdom
304 Posts

Posted - 13 May 2005 :  08:59:25  Show Profile
scouse (liverpool) is a good dialect too:

"giz a ciggy mate"

translates to

"pardon me kind sir, please may i have a cigarrette"
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