for 4get, lotty, shaney and all the other Nor'folk :)

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Just found my Norfolk phrase book and thought I'd share lol

Ah u gorn near thuh Puust Orfice? - Are you going near the Post Office?

Aircal - Small town half-way between Naaridge and Gt.Yaarmuuth on the A47

Angla Swear - (Anglia Square) A masterpiece of 1960's urban architecture of unparalleled hideousness located just 'nuuth on the Maglen Street fly-ovah'. This unbelievably bleak edifice of concrete and rusting steel narrowly missed out on the prize for 'best urban regeneration project' by 137 places. One day in the future it will fall down but unfortunately none of us will be around to witness that happy event

Ar yer orrite, booy - Good Morning

Ar yer orrite, booy - Good Afternoon

Ar yer orrite, booy - Good Evening

Ass a rum ol' jarb un't it booy? - It's a strange situation

Ass roight hent ut? - 'I believe that to be correct.' A statement posed as a question; a conversational technique employed over wide ranging areas of Eest Angular sic

Assa bit black ova Will's medder, hent et? - Take a look at those threatening black clouds. I think it might rain.

Assa jook - I’m just kidding

Awld Yares Noight - New Year's Eve

Bare - Sold by the pint in Shicagoo’s

Bisha Barnabee - A Ladybird

Blast Bor, yow git a ding-a-tha-lug - I’m going to hit you now

Boats - National chemist chain (Boots) - see Foo too/Fota

Boost - To brag about one's achievements

Boots - Vessels used on river and sea e.g. at Loose-tarfed (Not to be confused with 'Boots the Chemists')

Booy - boy/man

Bulcunee - A bit that jut outer upstairs so yer can goo outside.

Buth arnhem - Both of them

[4getmenot]

Ass roight hent ut is spot on ha ha. although when I try to say puust as in post office it comes out quite posh

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Cabbit? - "Can I have a piece of that please?"

CAAANT! - "You wouldn't happen to support Ipswich Town would you?"

Card - Traditionally eaten with chips, might well have been caught off Loose-tarfed

Carra Rud - a place where Naaridge people go to watch their football team lose. Another place like this is Portman Road .

Chairs - term used when raising a glass of beer, wine etc. in the company of friends

Chimbley - chimney

Chow - Goodbye - (Rhymes with 'low')

Ci'ee - as in Naaridge ci'ee - a place for shopping

Con-cue-lata - Item used instead of an abacus - Once seen used in a Norwich shop to calculate the change to be given from £1 for a 99 pence purchase - honestly!

Cooin - queueing

Compoota - computer (used only in the subjunctive sense -- i.e. "if oy ad a compoota" -- since this technology has yet to be introduced to Norfolk ). (See also - 'Pootah')

Cossey Costessey (Which is actually pronounced, well um, Cossey)

Cruummer - Nuuth Narfak seaside town of Cromer

Cumbine aarvista - an agricultural vehicle

Cuntry -- Country; countryside

Curls - a department store in Naaridge ci'ee long since renamed as Debenhams (but news travels slowly in Naaridge!)

Dare-um - (East) Dereham

Dawg – dog

Dew u lissen hair - Now you listen to me

Dicky pron. dicka - a donkey - See 'Ha'yer.....' below

Dodman - Snail

Doo whaat? - I beg your pardon.

DOOURRR (Often accompanied by boggling eyes and deformed mouth shapes) - Isn't the aforementioned obvious?

Dunt - Doesn't

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Eltra-con-a-cuted - When one receives 230v from a power socket

Es a rummun! int e? - He is a strange fellow, is he not?

Fare ta middlin - I’m doing quite well actually

Fillum- Norwich/Norfolk people used to watch these at a cinema. Latterly they are inclined to frequent a 'videa' shop and sit at home with a 'tek-away'

Foo too or Fota - Get these developed at Boots (the chemist! - not Loose-tarfed vessels) See 'Boats'
Fool - Petrol or Diesel - Not to be confused with 'fule' a slight silly person

Fooze - Electrical component on sale at Hum Base

Furriners - People who come from anywhere south of Thetford

Fuun - telephone

Gatoo - Sticky chocolate cake

Getoninoutonit - Do come in, its beginning to rain

Goo yew stedda booy - Please drive with care

Gretole - rather large

Gu tehec bor - How surprising my man

Guunna - going to

Ha' ya gorra bead on?- Are you sweating?

Ha' ya got a loight, bor? - Could you please lend me some sort of cigarette ignition device, kind sir?

Hairo - Hero

Har ya gittin arn tagether? - Hello

Harnser - a heron

Ha'yer far gorra dicka, booy? - does your father own a donkey?

Haysbra - Happisburgh - Strangely....the correct pronunciation is 'Haysbra'

Heesay – He said

Hent - haven't

Heyya? - Have you really?

Hirrix la rouge bon fo sum dinna - Where is the local chippy?

Hoo-har - a fuss or commotion

Hoomid - As in "Thas hoomid taday" - A meterological phenomenon otherwise known as high humidity

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Hoss – horse

How fer ar ya doin' booy? - How are you?

How yer gettin arn booy? - Norfolk greeting

Hum Base - DIY store

Hunstan - Hunstanton – Nuuth-wairst Narfak coostal village

Husband/Wife - Normally a cousin

I/yoo/ee/shee gooo - I/you/he/she goes to (or 'went to')

I/yoo/ee/shee see - I/you/he/she saw (N.B. in 1943, teaching of the past tense was abolished in all Norfolk schools.)

Intat? - Is it not?

Iss'at roight? - Comment to show that attention is being paid to the speaker

Jargon - Like running, but at a more leisurely pace

Khaarsee - Suburb on the western edge of Naaridge

Kelp? - Another 'high-speed' contraction of speech - 'May I be of assistance?'

Koo - Any of the bovine-family of animals (Not to be confused with 'coo' - a line of people 'cooin')

KooDee - Discount shop at the top of St.Stephens Street and in Angla Swaer

Loight elbow - Lighthouse

Loose-tarfed - East coast fishing port

Lully ole jarb - Lovely old job = Excellent

Mardle - General chit-chat, much favoured by older members of the community, about 'suffin' qv. and 'nuffin' qv.

[ummmm]

I notice 4get says 'yer' a lot...

Do you two speak like that?

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Muutah - automobile

Naarfak dumplin - A vaguely nasty, sinking, dumpling/a person from outside the city wall with questionable parentage and too many fingers

Naaridge Yoonyun - Sometime major Naarfak, but now northern India, employer

Neet-said - the village of Neatishead 'nuuth ah Naaridge'

Noo idare - no idea/ don't know

Nuffin - Nothing - Generally employed along with 'Suffin' as in 'Suffin an' Nuffin' suggesting that other wonderful Norwich phrase 'A luud of ol' tosh'

Nuuth - one of the points of the compass

Oi gaat rongg - I'm in trouble/I was told-off

Oi hatta larf - It was extremely funny

Oim goo un up tha ci'ee ta doo a bih a shaarpen - I am heading into Naarridge to make some purchases

Oim jus gorn oop the ruud - I am just going up the road

On - Of (as in "I loike tha look on that cairke, can I hav a piece on uut?")

Oodiun - Where the people of Norwich used to watch "fillums"

Oover air / oover ere - 'I'm over here'

Pootah - Computer

Roight - right

Rup Bah - Variation on the above

S'artanoon - referring to the period of time between mid-day and evening

Sheranum - Seaside town (Sheringham) a few miles to the west of Cruummer

[4getmenot]

nearer to loftie

http://www.urbandicti...ine.php?term=swaffham

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Shicagoo’s - Nightspot on Prince of Wales Road, Norwich

Shink - Should think

Shoont - Shouldn't

Slantendicular - It’s not straight

Sproight - Fizzy lemon drink

Spr'stn - Sprowston

Stare-shun - where trains arrive and depart as in 'Thorpe station'

Stoop ud - Term applied to very silly people

thas scoowiff - it isn't straight

Suffin - Something - Generally employed along with 'Nuffin' as in 'Suffin an' Nuffin' suggesting that other wonderful Norwich phrase 'A luud of ol' tosh'

Swaaafum - Swaffham

Thang Kyer - Spoken at high speed, used by Norfolk shop assistants when accepting money

Thas a bit on the huh - That's a bit wonky/uneven

Thas a rum'un - Not quite up to scratch

The P.O.W. - The 'Chav' abbreviation for Prince of Wales 'Ruud'. Or where the Loocal Constabry (Constabulary) frequent on a Friday/Saturday noight.

The social - Despite many previous name-changes (as with Curls q.v.) 'JobCentre+' is still known as 'the social' in Naaridge

[4getmenot]

surely cuntry wouldnt have an t in it

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Traaacta - a farming vehicle

Tripe writer - type-writer

Troos - Suburb on the southside of Naaridge

U dunt hatter do ut! - You haven't got to do it.

Uh day - to day

Uhnt-it - "Isn't it?" (see innit)

Varmun - A naughty person, generally young. e.g. 'Gerron outta hair you young varmun'

Wah e say – What did he say?

Well i coatasee – Goodness me

Where u gorn? - Where are you going?

Windum - Small town south of Naaridge (Sensible abbreviation of it’s proper name : Whymundimundimundium)

Woont - Wouldn't

Wossamaa'er/Wossrong/Wossup Is there a problem?

Wotchamacaulut – Thingumajig

Wot choo mardlin' on 'bout? - What are you talking about?

Wot choo up ter uh day - What are you doing today?

Wotja – Hello

Yow siller owld fule - Comment made to someone displaying “backward” tendancies

Yuull git rongg! - You will get into trouble/told-off!

[4getmenot]

yer

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no you're right 4get, thartd be cunn-ree!

no, we dont speak like that ummm, 4get does slip into a Norfolk accent at times but not that much lol

[4getmenot]

actually even though I was born here and lived here all my loif people say I speak quite posh. Although when I was on tv once I cringed at my accent

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you only slip occasionally into the local dialect, 4get. lol. Nothing like many of your friends

[LoftyLottie]

Thirty years plus living in Norfolk and I still have my South London accent but use a lot of the above expressions. I can now understand the Norfolk language very well though.

When I first moved up here, I couldn't understand why there were so many men called Davit. It took a long time to realise they were all actually called David.

Also thirty years ago most of the old booys on the market used to almost speak original East Anglian - unfortunately they have all passed on now.

I speak good old posh Queen's english on the telephone apparently.

haa ya got any more interviews yet, 4get.


What really peeves me is that they cannot get the Norfolk dialect right in any dramas or films whatsoever. It always sounds like West Country and the East Anglian dialects are nothing like those in the west country.

[LoftyLottie]

It was Shaney that introduced me to bishybarnybees!!

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oh i know! How steven Fry could let everyone do those awful accents on Kingdom when he lives 5 miles up the road is beyond me lol

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Ha ha re 'bloody wars'

[LoftyLottie]

It's a really difficult dialect to actually get right. You have to either be born here or live here a long time!

I actually love it, long may it live.

Funnily enough, my son was born and bred here but although he can talk Norfolk extremely well, he has got our Southern accents.