British slang

lovemeg5186 · Joined: Jan 23, 2006 Posts: 60

Is any one willing to teach me some british slang?

volare · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:06 pm Post subject:

What do you want to know meghan.? ..the trouble with British slang is that there are so many different variations around the country. Rolling Eyes

However say a few things and we will help you out... Very Happy

lovemeg5186 · Joined: Jan 23, 2006 Posts: 60

ok but what do i say

Zio · Joined: Jan 03, 2006 Posts: 64

http://www.aldertons.com/

The link above is a good website for Cockney (London) slang, which is the most used. Don't think rest of country has much. I don't think you hear much of it now days.

Anyway, have fun Laughing

xotic · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:08 am Post subject:

Haha, this is funny Laughing

Should have had something like that before I went to London years ago. I might have understood my host mother's family much better. Laughing

volare · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:27 am Post subject:

Lucy · Joined: Feb 03, 2006 Posts: 38

I think that, rather than 'slang', different regions just have different names for certain things. It's quite difficult to tell what it slang/regional until you travel or speak to other people from various parts of the country.

Doppleganger · Joined: Jan 17, 2006 Posts: 29 Location: Scotland

A pretty good site is http://www.urbandictionary.com/

Some of the entries can be very funny.

lovemeg5186 · Joined: Jan 23, 2006 Posts: 60

The rhyming slang was a bit difficult for me

Nicola · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:19 am Post subject:

There is chav slang that is used a lot. Totally random words. Like 'bare' means 'many' and 'buff' means 'good looking', 'sick' means brilliant or excellent, 'milf' which I'm not even going to translate. The main thing with british slang is that it constantly changes and most of the time they are just saying the proper words but pronouncing it lazily or using extremely poor grammar. For example 'is it'? 'Wozzat?' 'Bovard' and so on.

Cockney slang isn't used much outside of that particular London area. Especially the rhyming slang.

Student · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:02 pm Post subject:

Here's some Cockney rhyming slang, see if you can translate it!

My trouble and strife came running up the apples and pears after being Brahms and List on a bottle of fuddle de dum and gave me a kick up the bottle and glass!

jaxx · Joined: Feb 24, 2006 Posts: 2 Location: Nottingham

(My wife came running up the stairs after getting drunk on a bottle of rum and gave me a kick in the backside).

Each area has it's own dialect, moving from Newcastle to Nottingham a simple thing like a Bread bun changes it's name up home it's a bun in Nottingham it's a cob and I believe further south it's a bread roll, if your ever in Newcastle Meghan go to the Grainger market in the City centre there is a book stall called Robinsons where you can by a fun book "Larn yersel Geordie" [Learn yourself Geordie] it's worth a read

xrainy · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:42 pm Post subject:

hey jaxx i dont call bread rolls any of what you said, to me they are baps. But even when i ask for them where i live i get a confused look from the shop people. so i dont know where i got baps from. hehe

Student · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:12 pm Post subject:

Bread rolls are cobs to me! That's the Black Country!

I'll give you something in my dialect, see how it sounds to you!

"If yo'am saft enuf to come dahn eya when the road werks are on yo tae'll gue cold!"

"It war me I day do it, yo day see me yo core prove it!" This is the Black Country National Anthem they used to say at school!

maximus2uk · Joined: May 05, 2006 Posts: 17 Location: West Sussex

Are you 'avin a bubble bath or wot ?

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