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Strange Words
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PennyDainty | Report | 23 May 2005 00:07 |
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baffies can be your slippers or wee flat shoes! What about 'tumblin yer wilkies', when I moved to Edinburgh, everyone thought it was something rude! LOL Christine |
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Spud Fae Livi | Report | 23 May 2005 00:04 |
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Correct Anne. One for anyone from Edinburgh - Baffies |
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¨*:·.Susiebabes.·:*¨ | Report | 23 May 2005 00:03 |
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Spud if you google glaswegian slang it gives you sites that are in depth Stank on this site has about 15 meanings!! Check it out..Urban dictionary-author Simon Susie xx |
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PennyDainty | Report | 23 May 2005 00:02 |
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Coming from Glasgow too, Spud (notice I got your name right! LOL) I know what a stank is, but living in Edinburgh, I'm now bi-lingual, and call it a siver now! Christine |
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PennyDainty | Report | 23 May 2005 00:00 |
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I thought gutties were catapults or slings! Amazing the different use of words only a few miles apart! Christine |
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Spud Fae Livi | Report | 22 May 2005 23:59 |
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Anne I should have known that coming from glasgow. But staying here I get a bit confused. What about stanks then? |
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¨*:·.Susiebabes.·:*¨ | Report | 22 May 2005 23:57 |
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My hubby's family are all glaswegian and I have only ever heard them say 'Trainee's' for trainers it might then be Edinburgh.....Oh there you go Anne has told you it is!! Susie xx |
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Spud Fae Livi | Report | 22 May 2005 23:53 |
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Another word for trainers up here is gutties. Not sure wether it is a Glasgow or Edinburgh thing. |
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Sharron | Report | 22 May 2005 23:49 |
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When we jolly folk of Sussex have an itch we have a good firk at it.Sometimes we do it in the street without even bothering to go up a twitten to do it privately.If we don't do it now we will do it somewhen. |
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Unknown | Report | 22 May 2005 21:45 |
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Ginnell (sp?) An alleyway - couldn't understand a thing that was said to me when I first arrived in Yorkshire - it really is another language, lol. |
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PennyDainty | Report | 22 May 2005 21:43 |
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Karen, in Glasgow gym shoes are 'sandshoes or sannies' and here in Edinburgh they are 'penny blacks'! BTW up here 'mither' is the woman who gave birth to you! LOL Christine |
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Janice | Report | 22 May 2005 21:11 |
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Hi Paul, I'm a Northerner down south and I found that people didn't know what I meant when I told my children to stop mithering! Must be a Northern thing but there doesn't seem to be a southern equivalent that does the job! Janice |
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Maz from Cornwall | Report | 22 May 2005 21:11 |
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I have often seen words that I had to ask the meaning of WOTCHER was one of them! I suppose it depends where in the country you come lol!! |
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Paul | Report | 22 May 2005 21:08 |
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Evening All The other day I wrote to one of my contacts and the opening line of my email was 'I am sorry to mither you but...........'. She very kindly came back with the information I was after but at the same time asked 'What on earth is 'to mither'?!?! I wrote back and explained that it means to pester, to bother etc and she said she had never heard it before! Has anyone else had any experience of not being understood in their own country? LOL Take care Paul |
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