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"Accents"

Just discuss various Accents from various places here. Could end up being pretty funny... :)

"Why aye man"

Apparantly that's what we geordies say every day. Although in my 19 years of life I've only ever heard a couple of people ever mutter those words.

The only thing that Geordies seem to say is, "like", at the end of a sentence.

Yeah, we do say like a lot. And "geet". I don't even know what geet means, but here's a few examples.

"He was geet angry."

"And he was, geet, shouting at wu and stuff."

It's sort of like, well, like, only not.

Canny is another one. Means friendly/nice up here (apparantly it's the total opposite down south) but can also be used like this -

"It was canny good."

"He's canny gay, like."

See? Using like again.

Huh Canny means Can't in Edin:

"You canny dae that!"

We have the problem with say Like too though. That and You know:

"It was like amazing you know, totally like fantastic you know, you just know you know?"

A favorite American word would have to be:

Buttooks

English_Bloke wrote:
> I remember talking to a Scot once.
>
> “I’m gonna smash your head in with this pole!”
>
> Crazy talk…I can’t remember anything else after that.

That's a very polite Scot you were talking to.

'Am gonny smash yer heed in way this pole man'

Surely.

:)

Galacticdramon wrote:
> "BRAW" apparently means "Good"

No, it is for brilliant. It's a mutation on brill.

And it's also for a fighter type person;

"Aye, a braw lad indeed"

I have a Black Country accent, here are some of our words.

Uwa - Ouch
Tarra a bit - Goodbye
Sharrap - Shut Up
Mo Mon - My Man
Ta - Thanks
Mind Yow - Although
Floower - Floor
Hoss - House
Oss - Horse
Noo - New
Tat - Rubbish
Sponner - Spanner
Loffin - Laughing
Doower - Door
Fust - First
Mucker - Friend
Fower - Four
Kalied - Drunk
Chate - Cheat
It ay - It isn't
Babby - Baby
Stop Blarting - Stop Crying
Aer bin ya - Are you alright
Doolally - Mad
Faggits Un Pays - Faggots and peas
Ah Cor - I Can't
Bonk - Hill
Gel - Girl
Bost - Broken
Caw - Can't
Dowen - Down


There are many others, but not sure how to spell them.

Foreman wrote:
> Bonk - Hill

Wha?