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01-21-2018, 01:54 PM | #1 |
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Want a foreign vacation but don’t speak anything but English?
Well there’s Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, England, Scotland… NO, Wait, not Scotland.
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01-21-2018, 02:05 PM | #2 |
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You may not be surprised to know that I’ve heard or used all of these except “air beige” and “pure Barry”. I shall try out these last two at the earliest opporchancity.
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Quite a lot of this slang gets used in the North of England as well. Scran, bonnie , baccy, off your trolley, bevvy, rank.
... never heard Pure Barry before - I like that one.
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01-21-2018, 04:22 PM | #4 |
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I wish we'd had some 'splanations for some of those.
Interesting stuff.
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01-22-2018, 10:03 AM | #5 |
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He 'splained them, but he was talkin' foreign so we don't know what he said.
Makes a lot more sense than the rhyming cockney shit, where A rhymes with B so you say M???????
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01-22-2018, 12:58 PM | #6 | |
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That's the best description of Cockney rhyming slang ever.
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01-22-2018, 12:58 PM | #7 | |
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What is it you want explained? What they mean, or how they came to mean it?
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Example: 'Pure Barry', it was explained what it means, but not why it means fucking brilliant. Wtf? How did that come to be? Did some guy named Barry make some astounding observation and from then on his friends said anything that was brilliant was 'Pure Barry'? Do the Scots find Barack Obama particularly brilliant? Izzat where it originates? I must know these things!!!!!
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01-22-2018, 01:32 PM | #9 | |
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Heheh. Yeah - that I cannot help you with I'm afraid.
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I though I'd try to be helpful and look it up -
Didn't really help....here's what the Time Out handy guide to some of the most useful everyday slang terms has to say: Quote:
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[eta] apologies, there it is casually mentioned in the definition of another word. It's like 'guy'. That makes more sense now.
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01-22-2018, 01:49 PM | #11 |
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I thank you, ma'am.[/hattip]
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01-22-2018, 02:10 PM | #12 | |
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I should add that, whereas the list on the vid has terms I am very familiar with, the Time Out list is purely Scottish slang - there's no crossover with northern england that I can see with that list - but maybe some of it exists in Newcastle - that place has one foot in Scotland and the other in England, culturally.
https://www.timeout.com/edinburgh/bl...gh-slang-terms
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01-22-2018, 07:28 PM | #13 |
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We used Gadger or Gadgie for guy/bloke almost exclusively in Northumberland (North of Newcastle, South of Scotland)
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