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Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:35 am
by Adam CR
Stone the crows!
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:35 am
by Mose Varty-Seppanen_Archive
scott wrote:For me, it's either "right then!" or the ending of sentences with "yeah?" or "isn't it?" / "aren't they?" / "wasn't he?" or any other way of taking a statement and making it into a question begging for affirmation.
......aren't I?!
......innit?
.......ain't I?!
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:36 am
by fantasmatical thorr_Archive
here's some:
ooh, you daft apeth!
daft as a brush
if i had a swimming pool it would catch fire!
crash the ash (gi's a fag)
awight cunt?! (black country)
cow me! 'ark at 'er! (black country)
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:09 am
by chairman_hall_Archive
Chapter Two wrote:steve wrote:Up the Garry.
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steve wrote:Bobbins!
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Are you making these up?
I concur, it must be a southern thing.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:25 am
by fantasmatical thorr_Archive
bobbins? means rubbish, crap, a load of bobbins!!
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:11 am
by rashiedgarrison_Archive
fantasmatical thorr wrote:bobbins? means rubbish, crap, a load of bobbins!!
As in, Little Frank, that's bobbins
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:31 am
by simmo_Archive
scott wrote:For me, it's either "right then!" or the ending of sentences with "yeah?" or "isn't it?" / "aren't they?" / "wasn't he?" or any other way of taking a statement and making it into a question begging for affirmation.
In the contemporary vernacular one says "innit?" or "wunnit?" my friend.
*edited for typo*
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:34 am
by stewie_Archive
Awww fach yooo, yooo faching caaant
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:34 am
by Chapter Two_Archive
Help ma boab!
Scots people: do people really say 'help ma boab?'
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:38 am
by night_tools_Archive
Josef K wrote:Me too, It's not always used in an aggressive way as in the example above. It is often used as a term of endearment between friends. e.g.
"alright bawbag?"
Aye, dinnae ferget the similar term 'cuntybaws'.
I'm also a big fan of 'radge' - a crazy or hard man, and 'bottin' - a fool or idiot. The first is Edinburgh slang, the second Glaswegian.
