Dialect

[Waaii]

I admit I was being lazy. Prolly is not a word Probably is.
nor is Kida or even kinda, should be Kin of, sorry
anyway made me wonder
Do you have special (dialect) words for things where you live?
In (very) rural Hampshire and Sussex folks keep Chicken (however many) not Chickens. Next Wednesday will not be tomorrow that is 'this Wednesday'. Next Wednesday is the following week.... if you follow!

[ummmm]

we say frit...as in you frit the life out of me. I didn't notice it until my neighbour, who is Spanish, pointed it out.

[Eve]

Loads up here I had to figure out when I moved up north.

Gipping - "it made me gip" - it made me throw up/ nearly throw up.

To let on to someone - to say hi to them.

Pants - that they are trousers up here, pants to me are knickers.

Ginnel/Brew - alley between backs of houses/hill

To call someone - to say something offensive about someone eg "so and so called me"/"you calling me".

Making a brew/brewing up - making a cuppa

Barm/muffin - a bap or roll from where i come from.

In wales - cheers instead of bye and ta da is used a lot too.

[Eve]

Oh, saying "now then" when answering the phone, that one always makes me giggle.

[missjef]

i remember i had to think about regional dialects and stuff for my english but i cant remember that much now!
my mum says 'spice' for sweets.
does everywhere else know the words chav and scal? because i remember when i went to scotland and they had no idea what we meant by that because they say 'N.E.D's' instead which stands for non educated delinquents!

[Eve]

I heard ned in wales to, my mate used to call her son one :)

"Scally" and "chav" are widely used up here.

[Goodsoulette]

instead of asking where is that? we ask where is that to? I still dont really understand why that isnt right, and i certainly dont understand why it makes the question difficult to understand but apparently it does.

[pixie_woo]

Well, CHAV is a social worker acronym which stands for Council House And Violence, I expect the same phrase exists in Scottish social work but it hasn't trickled down to common use as it has south of the border.

I assume Scal is short for Scallywag, this seems to stem from post Civil War U.S. This was a political term applied to white southerners who associated with black people. Scallywag has now come to mean a dishonest and untrustworthy person.

[mattie]

"after" - an unspecified time in the future as in
"i'll do it after"

[Eve]

Mealtimes too, for me it's breakfast, lunch and tea/dinner.

My mates call my lunch dinner. Although I would say it's dinnertime as well as lunchtime even though for me I have lunch. Think that's a school think, dinnertime/dinner break. Hmm confusing myself now!

[OBonio]

'Ere and Arr are two words/noises oft used in these parts of the south west. And the use of 'be' instead of 'are'.

'There be ghosts in tha' there 'ouse. Arrrr'.

[Eve]

Nowt is very common up here too.

Right to as in it's "right" nice.

"Silly o'clock " was one I used to love meaning the early hours of the morning.

"Go have a word with yourself " too.

"Mardy" for stroppy/miserable.

Proper as in "it's proper ******* it down out there"/ "it's proper nice".

We had an random discussion the other day about how to pronounce Halfords, I say Hal and my workmates say Hol.

They take the **** out of my pronounciation too, such as u's.

[4getmenot]

But the thing is Wasii ive seen people put prolly before thats what made me wonder :-)

[missjef]

my boyfriend says 'well' a lot as in 'its well good' and also 'its proper good'.

[mandimoo]

where is ummmm from - cos we say frit too?