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Aside from its own language, the ancient Celtic tongue Kernewek, Cornwall has a lexicon of its own variations on English words or phrases.
Here are eight of the best known. Share your own in the comments section below or at www.facebook.com/westbriton
'ansum - handsome, as adjective, or pronoun for person you're speaking to, also as 'my ansom'; doesn't actually matter what they look like
wozzon? - 'what's up?', 'what are you up to?', as in 'what's on?'
emmet - tourist or holidaymaker
lover/my lover - similar use to 'ansum', can be anyone, including a stranger, not necessarily the person you're sleeping with
where you/he/she/it/they to? - where are you/he/she/it/they, where are you/he/she/it/they going?
dreckly - a bit like directly, as in 'right away', but not necessarily likely to be anytime soon
tuss - an insult, as in 'tusspot', like tosspot, without the 'o' or 'pot'
proper job - a good thing
Here are eight of the best known. Share your own in the comments section below or at www.facebook.com/westbriton
'ansum - handsome, as adjective, or pronoun for person you're speaking to, also as 'my ansom'; doesn't actually matter what they look like
wozzon? - 'what's up?', 'what are you up to?', as in 'what's on?'
emmet - tourist or holidaymaker
lover/my lover - similar use to 'ansum', can be anyone, including a stranger, not necessarily the person you're sleeping with
where you/he/she/it/they to? - where are you/he/she/it/they, where are you/he/she/it/they going?
dreckly - a bit like directly, as in 'right away', but not necessarily likely to be anytime soon
tuss - an insult, as in 'tusspot', like tosspot, without the 'o' or 'pot'
proper job - a good thing
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In Coventry we love a cheese and onion bap.
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We also call everyone bab.
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zejdź mi z drogi, That's Polish for get out of my way, I think/hope
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Bigmo, you're just up the road from me,
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Bigmo, they are Cobs not Baps.
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No sorry Paddy Hair they are baps as they found out in London last week.
Think they're also called tea cakes in Barnsley? |
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In Rugby we call them expensive.
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"Alright me old china". London thing.
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Bigmo, here in Leicester they are Cobs, in Coventry Baps and in Nuneaton Batch's.
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Paddy batches are what they are called in Rugby, just remembered as I never eat them.
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"Cursin' 'em" - thank you in Hungarian (true story)
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"Either pi$$ or get off the pot"
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"Fit like mon, still goat the bidie-in?"
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Baps are something completely different round here.
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Baps are something completely different round here.
"Fit like mon, still goat the bidie-in?" What's that in english akabula? |
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am away ta the bru to sign on.
translation for english people... I will be going to the jobcentre to look at the strange creatures that torture poor people. |
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the cups are ben there...with a pointing motion.
if you are sitting in the living room, the next room. It must be a throw back to olde english. be in ... ben. |
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"did you get yer hole last night ? "
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Have you cut that effing lawn yet?
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You need a translator for NI but there are differences in accents even in such a small country.
Waddaboutye Yousuns Freeze the ballix off ya Quaire Scundered Norn Iron loads of others, it's really a language in itself |
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Give me ya money bruv or me and my fams will slice you.
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if someone asks "whats that" and you are not sure ............you answer "lay oles for meddlers"
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Black over Will's Mother = it looks like rain
To give somebody a doughboy = to thump them , I think it came from the fact that yank servicemen often wore doughboy hats and were likely to be duffed by English gentlemen when visiting local pubs. Ockerd = awkward To go on the Razzle = to party but with sexual intent Get weaving = get cracking Duck(s) as a term of endearment. |
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"Shut it you slag" is something heard quite frequently here in London.
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no way to talk to the wife though Johnny, when she forgets to close the door of the new range rover evoque.
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@bigmo
"Fit like mon, still goat the bidie-in?" Fit like mon -It's how you would greet a mate - how you doin. still goat (got) the bidie-in - a bidie-in is a live in lover. |
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Doantwin2easy
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"Shut it you slag" .Absolutely nobody says that where I live Johnny Mustang, that's something from an episode of The Sweeney in the late 70's early 80's.
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I know Slippy, was only teasing. I actually grew up in your manor, Streatham, Tooting etc., never heard it other than on TV. Used to play in the half Moon in Herne Hill, is it still there or has it gone the way of many?
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Shut it you slag mustang,
how are you doing mate?. |
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Funny you should mention The Half Moon J.M., it reopened about three weeks ago after having been closed for over two years because of the flooding.
They have done away with the stage so no live music anymore, it's a typical Herne Hill pub now, nice decor and good (but overpriced) food and Mum's clubs and the likes. Not the pub I used to remember going to see bands, U2 even played there but I didn't see them there. Upstairs is a hotel, they have done a really great job refurbishing it and it must have cost absolute fortunes but it's a typical "trendy" South East London pub and not somewhere I'll frequent but have a few mates that live nearby so will no doubt have a few jars there every now and then. |
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Evening BTF, am very well thanks, how are you doing?
I guess the Half Moon's reinvention was inevitable Slippy, not sure there's that much demand for it's old-style (but fabulous) venue these days. And you might know this, was there a boxing club just across the road at one time, maybe called Mancini's or am I thinking of somewhere else? Couldn't believe the amount of people I saw last night hanging out on the pavements outside bars and restaurants around midnight pretty much the whole length of road between Clapham North and Stockwell, there were literally thousands. |
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Yeah I good JM.
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Fabulous to hear that BTF.
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The boxing gym was above the pub J.M. , my brother used to train there before he moved to The Thomas A Beckett in The Old Kent Road.
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Great stuff Slippy, thanks for that.
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i saw u2 at the half moon .. after seeing bob marley at the crystal palace bowl that afternoon ... what a day
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