Chapter Two wrote:Help ma boab!


Scots people: do people really say 'help ma boab?'

No, only members of the Broons http://www.thatsbraw.co.uk/ and Oor Wullie use that kind of expression these days.

Chapter Two wrote:Help ma boab!


Scots people: do people really say 'help ma boab?'

Haven't heard it much outside the pages of 'Oor Wullie' - however one might say "help ma boabie" had one been kicked in the baws by a radge.

'Bent as a bottle of crisps' - that's fantastic!

I also really like the word 'shitehawk'.

Wot's all this then?

I, too, enjoy "innit".

One time when rysie was going on vacation he said:

and I couldn't be arsed to send a postcard so you lot can fuck right off

cunts.

All that stuff is funny, innit?

Oi! pleases one of my american friends immensly.

simmo wrote:In the contemporary vernacular one says "innit?" or "wunnit?" my friend.

Yes yes. I know. But pretty much all of the Brit I hear is from my boss, who is old and more proper than that.

I am a big fan of the 'mercan equivalents, "idnit" and "wudnit". I would love to know how often I say "wasn't" versus "wudn't". I would be shocked to find that I ever say "wouldn't have" in favor of the way-awesomer "wouln'ta". But I digress! Back to the Britisms!

If I said "Moises Cooper Errrrr..." would people in jolly olde England know I was saying "aluminium" via rhyming slang?

Chapter Two wrote:Scots people: do people really say 'help ma boab?'

I've said it a few times.

night_tools wrote:I'm also a big fan of 'radge'.

I occasionally uses the word radge, but sometimes prefer "bam" or "bampot".

Here is a news story about a pure mental radge - there are some funny bits in it (apart from the murder) :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edi ... 754791.stm

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".

"What? No, no, stop, stop. Stop saying all those things at me. I just want a coffee. A cup of coffee, with some milk in it. Okay? Please. And anyway, I thought a barista's what you hold on to when you go up the stairs"

Favourite northern expression of surprise:

"Bugger me gently!"