You say potato, I say potarto....... - Page 2

Gemma83 · #11 (**permalink**) 15-05-2008, 02:56 PM

I don't think we have many in surrey, and the ones I do use are proberly so normal to me that I don't see them as strange!

I have noticed though that people from Surrey do say "basicaly" far too much. I was just on the phone to an agency and the guy must have said it 10 times in 5 minutues!

tashi · #12 (**permalink**) 15-05-2008, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by mattyh

Lol... Haven't heard that one for years.

my paticular pet peeve of (major generalisation) people from this side of yorkshire, is the fact that they miss H's off the start of words! Harrogate becomes 'arrogate etc etc.. I know not everyone does it, but my OH does, and so does the girl I work with... drives me mental

That is a big thing in the Valleys as well, but I know of someone who writes as the speak so He has becomes e as

Gemma83 · #13 (**permalink**) 15-05-2008, 03:00 PM

me and my sis do call each other "flid" a lot, we used to say "window-licker" people used to think we were being really cruel, but given that we both have disabilties we have gotten used to larghing at each other being flids!

Oh and scanky or manky when somethings icky

tashi · #14 (**permalink**) 15-05-2008, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Gemma83

Oh and scanky or manky when somethings icky

My girls say minging

Gemma83 · #15 (**permalink**) 15-05-2008, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by tashi

My girls say minging

My friends' kid says that! I think a lot of these words become a generational thing, my dad asked me the other day what "emo" is as he had heard some kids talking about in a coffee shop and couldn't make up his mind if it was a band or some type of drug!

tashi · #16 (**permalink**) 15-05-2008, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Gemma83

My friends' kid says that! I think a lot of these words become a generational thing, my dad asked me the other day what "emo" is as he had heard some kids talking about in a coffee shop and couldn't make up his mind if it was a band or some type of drug!

I struggle to keep up with the girls and all their sayings and my mum who lives with us is way way out of her depth - she says the funniest things to the girls when she doesnt understand

Jamie's Menagerie · #17 (**permalink**) 15-05-2008, 04:18 PM

my Granny used to call tap water Adam's Ale.

andrea 35 · #18 (**permalink**) 15-05-2008, 06:07 PM

We say council pop too for water , and gobbling rods for cuttlery, pipis for slippers , drooby drobe for wardrobe , my son comes out with some great stuff like minging , and everything thats not good is gay !!! everything that is good is sick , I still quite like cool and awsome (in a real fake american accent ).

cocis · #19 (**permalink**) 15-05-2008, 10:28 PM

I know that in the North East people call the toilet the 'netty'.
Anyone know why?!!!

englishrose943 · #20 (**permalink**) 15-05-2008, 10:42 PM

People in liverpool laff when i say 'ginnel' it means the alleyway between the houses.
My OH has cockney slang like 'birds nest' - chest
Mince pies - eyes
Plates of meat - he names his mate Pete. lol

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