British Slang Words & Phrases

Discussion in 'Evolution of Language' started by Hal Pollner, Jun 26, 2018.

  1. Frank Sanoica

    Frank Sanoica Supreme Member
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    "Ahsk it? Ahsk it??

    I Cohmahnd it!

    Richard Burton in "Where Eagles Dare".

    Frank
     
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  2. Hal Pollner

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    That's not a slang phrase, Frank...that's an Accent.

    Hal
     
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    @Hal Pollner
    Well then how about "gudgeon"?
    Frank
     
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  4. Hal Pollner

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    I'm not familiar with the word, except how it works together with the pintle.

    Hal
     
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  5. Bobby Cole

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    I’m just trying to get past all the terms used in cricket. After I have a firm grasp on those, maybe someday I’ll start worrying about all the rest of the stuff but it looks like that’ll be a while.
     
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    @Bobby Cole - don't concern yerself with Cricket Bobby, you'll pass out with boredom :rolleyes:
    Its hardly baseball ! :p
     
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    Very true because when I first started perusing the list of cricket terms I believe I fell asleep somewhere between Bail and Bat Pad. :)

    There is, however, one term in Cricket that is very common below the Mason-Dixon line in the U.S.: Howzat or Howzee in cricket is when the bowler or fielder asks the ump for his opinion and simply means "how is it" in relation to the wicket. In the south, it seems that nearly everyone uses that same jargon for anything and at any time.
     
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    Bullocks:cool:
     
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  9. Patsy Faye

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    @Bobby Cole - yea and the la de da toffs have a habit of saying 'Its not cricket ol chap' :rolleyes: (when you say something that irks them)
    Well that's good I thinks - anything but cricket ! :p
     
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  10. Bobby Cole

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    To go along with @Ken Anderson’s observation concerning the British and the use of too many vowels, the slang “bloody” is used in the stead of uh....”da_n”. It’s seems so much simpler to say the four letter version rather than the six.
    But then, as I observed when I was a young lad, perhaps if my now departed pentecostal grandmother had said bloody in the stead of it’s American version, she wouldn’t have retired to her prayer closet so much asking for forgiveness. Since I was a definite chore when I visited, she spent an awful lot of time in that closet! Ah, the memories.........

    That said, I do often fight the vowel syndrome by using the Elizabethian term of “whilst” rather than “while”. One less vowel but one more consonant.
     
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    Never said 'whilst' in me life, sounds silly and very la de da for Patsy :rolleyes:
     
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  12. Tom Galty

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    Not a English slang term but what about having a Faggot on a cold English Morning.

    Sets you up for the rest of the day.

    Or you smoke 20 FAGS a day and die young.
     
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  13. Bobby Cole

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    Ah yes, I imagine to make the distinction between ginger-beer and your term. :)
     
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    That reminds me when I lived in Hungary I saw quite a few license plates that said FAG, obviously it's not a word there. :)
     
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    @Tom Galty , what is a faggot in this case?
     
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