Things you say that nobody understands.

Gilly said:
It should be pronounced gerrartn'it! You lot are half-arsed, no wonder not even the southerners want you :D
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LMAO, yeah we're stuck in the middle and get the worst of the bad parts.
I'm bought up on the border of Nottingham and Derby (where D.H. Lawrence was born and bred) so i get both sets of twangs and dialects.
We shared the same stomping grounds.....me duck! :)
 
kevmeister said:
Owt, as in the opposite of Nowt

Nowt - Nothing

Out - Anything
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This! As in 'Do you want owt from shop?'

I mist admit since living outside of where my dialect is from, and having to speak to a wide range of people as a teacher, I've really stopped using my local dialect, and even my accent has diminished.

However I still say 'while' as in 'i'm working 7 while 9' instead of 'until' and refer to the meal you eat after 5 as 'tea'.
 
A massive confusion in the UK is with .. well . as example .. ''Next Wednesday".

Northerners think 'next wednesday' is different from "This Wednesday" by 1 week. Hence 'I'll meet you next Wednesday' could by 10 days away.

Southerners think 'This Wednesday' and 'Next Wednesday' are exactly the same date ... and start using 'A week Wednesday' to describe further away ..

Leads to many problems ..
 
Psypher5 said:
biggest meal is tea. at tea time. Before that is dinner. at dinner time.
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So you never go for lunch or have a lunch break?

Dinner is the name of the main meal of the day. Depending upon region and/or social class, it may be the second or third meal of the day.

Lunch is an abbreviation of the more formal "Lunchentach use as a word for a meal that was inserted between more substantial meals.

Tea time gets it's name from 'Afternoon tea' which is a light meal typically eaten between 3 pm and 5 pm and 'High tea' (also known as meat tea) which is an early evening meal, typically eaten between 5pm and 6pm

At school it was always Dinner time at noon and Tea time when I got home. As an adult I generally have lunch around 1pm and Dinner when I get home. However on Sundays I have a Sunday Dinner. All gouverned by when my main meal is.
 
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britboy4321 said:
A massive confusion in the UK is with .. well . as example .. ''Next Wednesday".

Northerners think 'next wednesday' is different from "This Wednesday" by 1 week. Hence 'I'll meet you next Wednesday' could by 10 days away.

Southerners think 'This Wednesday' and 'Next Wednesday' are exactly the same date ... and start using 'A week Wednesday' to describe further away ..

Leads to many problems ..
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Erm im from down south and Next wednesday means wednesday week, this wednesday is the closest one.
 
semi-pro waster said:
"Dinnae fash yersel lassie, dinnae greet now". ;)
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Any takers for "dinnae fash yersel"? Or care to guess what time "I'll see you at the back of 4" really means?

Another one that used to be common when I was younger was "monys a mickle, maks a muckle" although I've only recently found out that it was mistaken, mickle and muckle should mean the same thing. The phrase itself means that many little things make a lot.

Gilly said:
Pea-wet makes me shudder, no-one around here has heard of it.
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What is pea-wet? At a guess I'd think a weather related term but I don't imagine that would make you shudder.

Gilly said:
I told the footy lads the answer to the question 'what are parentheisis?' on a quiz machine and when I corrected the spelling and got the answer right, they all just stood there looking at me whilst their clock ran down.

Fickie ****ers!
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You were showing knowledge, a dangerous game that. :p
 
Psypher5 said:
biggest meal is tea. at tea time. Before that is dinner. at dinner time.
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Oh my life, my wife is a mentalist when it comes to mealtimes.

In our house we have lunch and tea. I grew up with lunch and then dinner or supper. Apparently this is INSANE. You'd think I'd been abused as a child, the way she carries on.
 
Here's another one...

Today is Friday.

When is next Sunday?

I reckon it's 9 days away. My wife insists it is 2 days away, being as that is the next Sunday. But I would call the Sunday 2 days away "this Sunday", not "next Sunday".
 
I also call sweets spice, and nobody in Leicester gets this.

If I say this in South Yorkshire everyone understands.
 
vonhelmet said:
Here's another one...

Today is Friday.

When is next Sunday?

I reckon it's 9 days away. My wife insists it is 2 days away, being as that is the next Sunday. But I would call the Sunday 2 days away "this Sunday", not "next Sunday".
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lol yea I just covered this a few posts above. It's a north/south thing ..
 
DampCat said:
See you at the back of four - means "sometime between 4:30 and 5"? or "sometime before 5"?
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For me it is any time between 4 and 4:30ish, it would be more logical for it to be the back end of the hour but it's not. It's one of the reasons why I scarcely ever use it because very few people would guess it to be the same as it was meant.

vonhelmet said:
When is next Sunday?

I reckon it's 9 days away. My wife insists it is 2 days away, being as that is the next Sunday. But I would call the Sunday 2 days away "this Sunday", not "next Sunday".
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The 22nd is last Sunday, the 29th is this Sunday and the 6th is next Sunday. She's right that the 29th is the next Sunday in the calendar but it's not a very useful phrase in that sense.
 
h00fzilla said:
Is scraps with fish and chips a regional thing?

Here you can get chips with scraps, fish and chips with extra scraps and so on.
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We certainly did scraps when I worked in a fishy down in Salisbury. However no-one ever ordered them so we just gave them each night to the homeless guys when we shut up shop ...
 
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