To the Brits...

[Huw63]

You horrible Ffilistine ............. here's something truely beautiful

So you stole a Welsh harp and got the backing singers of Clanhad to sing Maori folk songs. Hardly the stuff of an eisteddfod... But not dissimilar to some traditional Welsh music.

Of course I have a heavier taste in music... Being a heretical heathen philistine

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

You horrible Ffilistine ............. here's something truely beautiful

You horrible Ffilistine . have you been on the wee goldies "Philistine "

 

[DEL]

Hardly the stuff of an eisteddfod...
Being a heretical heathen philistine

True enouFf Huw .......... it's nice to see they got to take their sheets on day release .......

 

[DEL]

You horrible Ffilistine . have you been on the wee goldies "Philistine "

Ffs sake Ron it's a play on words ........ the Welsh double F as in Ffestiniog

 

[Huw63]

True enouFf Huw .......... it's nice to see they got to take their sheets on day release .......

And what's wrong with carrying your sheets with you ???? It's useful if you need a nap.

Poor Joe - he must be totally baffled by inter-Celtic banter on top of English dialects...

Joe - Del is a Scot, Ron is a Scot (technically a sort of Scot belonging to an Italian clan) and I'm Welsh. We are not English and are real British. The English are a bunch of "Jonny-come-latelys"

Hope this clarifies things and attempts to get the thread somewhere in a millions miles of being back on track...

Cheers

Huw

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Ffs sake Ron it's a play on words ........ the Welsh double F as in Ffestiniog

Theres me thinking it was a narrow gauge railway in the land of the Leek

 

[Larry Esposito]

Poor, Larry. He is probably highly confused by this time.

Mark.

Yes, but enjoying the lessons immensity. My Mother was Irish/Scottish and Welsh, as well as half Italian...my dad full Italian ancestry. I've always had a keen interest on etymology, and the regional slang is fascinating. Some of you guys can't understand each-other!

My American take on some of this:

• Cheers - as stated, mostly said while drinking. Was the name of a famous Sitcom in the 90s and a bar in Boston
• Mate - almost never said without a prefix (soulmate,roommate.classmate) The verb to mate.(fornicate)..better not say that to a lady friend, it carries an animal connotation. Please only use when speaking of animals (ask "Jimmy the Greek")
• Necking - probably out of style slang from the 70s/80s meaning kissing/making out with your girlfriend..usually in a car.
• Fag - Never used anymore, most are politically correct and society, thankfully, much more accepting. Say it to a heterosexual and it could be fighting words, though I think it is used btw friends much more as a term of endearment. You always greet your friends with lots of insults over here...male bonding.
• ta love and up duck - these are awesome! You would get a look like you had 2 heads over here...but I think they are cute/sweet. what a nice cordial way to be with people. Some women may take offense..same ones who don't like it when you say hun or dear....too uptight those people are..
• cracking/bullocks and wanker - undeniably British. No one uses them here. I really like the cracking adjective. We probably would use "wicked" "sweet" "bad-a$$"...I may start mixing that one into my vocab!

New Question!!!

Bloody - is that a substitute for the F-word? Is is considered a "bad word"?

Thanks for all the replies!!

 

[Larry Esposito]

G'day Larry, what a bunch of bloody Galahs.....Geez mate you've got Buckley's of following this lot of dogs breakfast.
A lot of the humour here is as dry as a nun's nasty but it's usually a piece of piss to work it out.
Anyway mate you'd have a pisser of a time down here because one of our sayings is "Happy as Larry".......Cheers Mate!

LMAO Mark, you made me happy as my name!

Let me see if I can decode.

"Hello Larry, what a bunch of freaking fools. Jesus, friend, you have got some balls trying to follow this crap. Anyway, friend, you would have a hell of a time in my country because, ironically, one of our sayings is Happy as a Larry (Happy as a average man?)"
Thanks friend

did I pass?

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

LMAO Mark, you made me happy as my name!

Let me see if I can decode.

"Hello Larry, what a bunch of freaking fools. Jesus, friend, you have got some balls trying to follow this crap. Anyway, friend, you would have a hell of a time in my country because, ironically, one of our sayings is Happy as a Larry (Happy as a average man?)"
Thanks friend

did I pass?

Yip

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Yip

I will be in New York in April so will try out some of my favourite Glaswegian slang words

 

[Huw63]

LMAO Mark, you made me happy as my name!

Let me see if I can decode.

"Hello Larry, what a bunch of freaking fools. Jesus, friend, you have got some balls trying to follow this crap. Anyway, friend, you would have a hell of a time in my country because, ironically, one of our sayings is Happy as a Larry (Happy as a average man?)"
Thanks friend

did I pass?

Not bad for a yank. Or in Cockney rhyming slang - not bad for a septic tank

 

[DEL]

Que Senor
Mick

Here you go Mick ......
GEEZABREKYABOBAGSORYELGITRAHEIDPITOANYE.
Stop annoying me you scrotums or you'll get head butted ......
Pretty obvious really

 

[peedee]

This is all absolutely the Doberman's danglies isn't it chaps.

P

 

[peedee]

By the way Larry, it is so good to hear of your ethnic origins.
I too am from a mixed race family, my father is a Scot and mum preferred the 5,000 meters.

Paul

 

[mick3272]

Here you go Mick ......
GEEZABREKYABOBAGSORYELGITRAHEIDPITOANYE.
Stop annoying me you scrotums or you'll get head butted ......
Pretty obvious really

Not quite the Queens english. But straight to the point
mick

 

[Tubby-Nuts2]

Here you go Mick ......
GEEZABREKYABOBAGSORYELGITRAHEIDPITOANYE.
Stop annoying me you scrotums or you'll get head butted ......
Pretty obvious really

Clearly! It just rolls off the tongue.

Mark.

 

[mick3272]

Clearly! It just rolls off the tongue.

Mark.

Only if you have a mouth full of marbles.
Mick

 

[Helm]

Iffen yo dusun pack it oop, yo'll stop a luuraup along yor yed
*If you don't stop, you'll get smacked around your head

As an aside it's said the Black Country dialect is the nearest surviving to the Original Anglo Saxon

 

[Huw63]

Iffen yo dusun pack it oop, yo'll stop a luuraup along yor yed
*If you don't stop, you'll get smacked around your head

As an aside it's said the Black Country dialect is the nearest surviving to the Original Anglo Saxon

Thank god the Normans came along then !

 

[billyturnip]

As an aside it's said the Black Country dialect is the nearest surviving to the Original Anglo Saxon

That makes me so pleased ours in Yorkishire is closely related to Danish.