daniel robert chapman wrote:Bus drivers in the North East will use the endearment 'love' with men and women without discrimination as people board. It's great to watch the faces of male students from the south as the male bus driver tells them

"won't be bus while ten minutes, love".

Correction. In Yorkshire. I've only heard this in Leeds. If you said this on your first day as a bus driver in Boro, you had better have brought something soft to eat for lunch.

Chapter Two wrote:

daniel robert chapman wrote:Bus drivers in the North East will use the endearment 'love' with men and women without discrimination as people board. It's great to watch the faces of male students from the south as the male bus driver tells them

"won't be bus while ten minutes, love".

Correction. In Yorkshire. I've only heard this in Leeds. If you said this on your first day as a bus driver in Boro, you had better have brought something soft to eat for lunch.

I've never been sure how far this spreads so I played it safe. Should we start up the old 'Boro is part of Yorkshire' arguments?

Bugger me gently!

daniel robert chapman wrote:

Chapter Two wrote:

daniel robert chapman wrote:Bus drivers in the North East will use the endearment 'love' with men and women without discrimination as people board. It's great to watch the faces of male students from the south as the male bus driver tells them

"won't be bus while ten minutes, love".

Correction. In Yorkshire. I've only heard this in Leeds. If you said this on your first day as a bus driver in Boro, you had better have brought something soft to eat for lunch.

I've never been sure how far this spreads so I played it safe. Should we start up the old 'Boro is part of Yorkshire' arguments?

Bugger me gently!

In Newcastle, "Pet" can be used to descibe both a man and a woman. And between a man and a man.

My dad's from Norton, and my mum's from Chester-le-Street (well, Sacriston. Well, Edmondsley) so I was exposed to some pretty impenetrable stuff from the extended family as a child.

I divvn't naw what they're yappering about half the time.

'Yappering', along with 'wittering' has become a big favourite of mine again of late.

'Half the time'.

And the supreme expression of anger at the words of another:

"Shut half yer face!"

"Ge' wif it ye fookin doss cunt"

My secondary school history teacher was famous for his lengthy discourse on the pleasure that can be taken in the various pronunciations of the word 'bastard'. I strongly prefer a slow talking Yorkshireman's delivery of a disdainful, withering and drawn out:

"Yer daft bastud."

In times of gentle exasperation I find a mumbled " Aw for fuck's sake" quite satisfying.

daniel robert chapman wrote wrote:..use the endearment 'love'

In the same way 'duck' is used indiscriminately in the East Midlands.

I heard 'mardy' (meaning pissed off/in a bad mood) quite a bit growing up there, recently resurrected by The Arctic Monkeys. A band, apparently.

Back to Glaswegian, away an' shite.

'addaway an' blast yerself.

Chuff me.