I am visiting Malaysia right now
Ohhh, please have some watermelon juice for me. Once I visited there, I never understood why we didn't ever do that with watermelon in restaurants here in the South. It is so refreshing!
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Weird phrases from where you live (or have lived) - AKA "colloquialisms!"
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Ohhh, please have some watermelon juice for me. Once I visited there, I never understood why we didn't ever do that with watermelon in restaurants here in the South. It is so refreshing!
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Have you ever tried cantaloupe juice? If you don't have a juicer, it's worth buying one just to make THIS juice! Throw a pear in there and you've really got something fantastic! Or a kiwi - YUM!
Never thought to do it with cantaloupe. I'll have to give it a try. (No, I don't have a juicer, but it is a good idea to get one.) I currently use a blender and a strainer, when needed.
Never heard that one. Must be one 'o them things y'all peoples say up in Canadia
I've only ever heard it from immigrants or first-generation Canadians myself. A fair number of European languages do it that way, so I think they just translate to English literally.
French is like that, so I wondered if they say that in Louisiana.
St. Louis and the surrounding area weird sayings:
"Where did you go to school?" always ALWAYS means where did you go to High School, not college. Folks around these parts feel a kinship with neighborhoods more so than with institutions. It's part of the reason why the area can't quite get over being a big-small town.
"Bread Co" is our slang for the restaraunt chain Panera, which is actually called St Louis Bread Company, and we call it Bread Co for short.
"Concrete" at Ted Drewes ice cream parlor on the old Route 66 is custard that is so thick, you can serve it upside down. There's only two locations, and you always have to fight to get a parking spot close by. It's packed with lines 8-10 people deep all around the shop.
Interstate Highway 44 for some reason is pronounced most often as "farty far", which clues people in to some of the dialect.
Pop is not "pop" in this part of the Midwest. It is "soda". It's our way of differentiating ourselves from Chicago, home of the Cubs baseball team, which any true Cardinals baseball fan makes fun of. If you say "pop", you're practically run out of town.
We also like to say woulda, or shoulda, or coulda, or mighta instead of would have or should have. Missouri is pronounced as "Missouruh" if you're a native, although it burns my britches (another saying I hear) when those Missourians pronounce Illinois as "Illinoiz."
The Loop is the Delmar Loop in University City, which has some incredible places to eat and for entertainment, especially Blueberry Hill with great burgers and rock n' roll music (Chuck Berry can still be seen there jamming out with his guitar). Wash U is the slang for Washington University.
"It's no skin off my nose" is another popular saying meaning it's no big deal.
So, basically on any given day here, you just might hear somebody saying, "Hey, let's go eat at Bread Co, head on out to the game, and then afterward let's grab a concrete at Ted Drewes. We can always go to the Loop afterward. Go Cards!"
Not a lot of twang there, but it's noticeable if I head upstate in Illinois, and the next thing I know everyone is saying they love my southern accent.
"Where did you go to school?" always ALWAYS means where did you go to High School, not college. Folks around these parts feel a kinship with neighborhoods more so than with institutions. It's part of the reason why the area can't quite get over being a big-small town.
"Bread Co" is our slang for the restaraunt chain Panera, which is actually called St Louis Bread Company, and we call it Bread Co for short.
"Concrete" at Ted Drewes ice cream parlor on the old Route 66 is custard that is so thick, you can serve it upside down. There's only two locations, and you always have to fight to get a parking spot close by. It's packed with lines 8-10 people deep all around the shop.
Interstate Highway 44 for some reason is pronounced most often as "farty far", which clues people in to some of the dialect.
Pop is not "pop" in this part of the Midwest. It is "soda". It's our way of differentiating ourselves from Chicago, home of the Cubs baseball team, which any true Cardinals baseball fan makes fun of. If you say "pop", you're practically run out of town.
We also like to say woulda, or shoulda, or coulda, or mighta instead of would have or should have. Missouri is pronounced as "Missouruh" if you're a native, although it burns my britches (another saying I hear) when those Missourians pronounce Illinois as "Illinoiz."
The Loop is the Delmar Loop in University City, which has some incredible places to eat and for entertainment, especially Blueberry Hill with great burgers and rock n' roll music (Chuck Berry can still be seen there jamming out with his guitar). Wash U is the slang for Washington University.
"It's no skin off my nose" is another popular saying meaning it's no big deal.
So, basically on any given day here, you just might hear somebody saying, "Hey, let's go eat at Bread Co, head on out to the game, and then afterward let's grab a concrete at Ted Drewes. We can always go to the Loop afterward. Go Cards!"
Not a lot of twang there, but it's noticeable if I head upstate in Illinois, and the next thing I know everyone is saying they love my southern accent.
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High Priest
-What up doe- Is how most of us say hi.
cablescavenger
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We have a hill by is called the Wrekin which you can see for miles around as it is a fairly flat area.
If someone is trying to tell you something but keeps going off on a tangent we say they are "going all round the Wrekin".
Which basically means instead of being direct and telling us what they mean they are taking us on a tour round the area.
cablescavenger
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If anyone nearby Lake Michigan way knows what a 2 percenter is I would like to know.
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Cablescavenger -PLEASE share more UK phrases and words with us! As an American, I am fascinated with the similarities - and the differences - between our versions of English!
Plus, I'm going to the UK later this year and I don't want to sound like an eegit. Or idiot either.
Plus, I'm going to the UK later this year and I don't want to sound like an eegit. Or idiot either.
Ok, this is not a saying, but it is an actual sign near Springhill, Louisiana!
Wildcat burger? Don't they mean catamount burger?
No, wait... puma burger.
No... mountain lion burger.
No... uhhh...
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Wildcat burger? Don't they mean catamount burger?
No, wait... puma burger.
No... mountain lion burger.
No... uhhh...
That ho is a real wildcat - errr, catamount - errr, cougar - err something like that!
GabrielWithoutWings
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Wow.... I thought my state was the only one that put up signs like that.
It is not unusual to see signs stating that they have biscuits that are "ho-made."
cablescavenger
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Where you are going in the UK, I can probably give you something a little more local to your visit?
First thing to remember is virtually every film we see over here is American, so we are very familiar with American language use, so you wouldn't sound stupid. I also think people over here mostly like Americans so you will probably make a lot of friends here.
You will find the British accents are varied and rich, you might find some dialects easy to understand and struggle with others.
I was told by an American girl that what she loved about our language was that you could travel right across America and encounter maybe 4 or 5 different accents whereas over here you can travel 20 miles and encounter a new one, and that to her our language was a lot more musical as opposed to the American accent which is more monotone.
Back to the sayings:
Chav - Someone who dresses up in cheap designer wear, or fake designer wear, or bling when they really can't afford it.
Drunk - Pi**ed, arseholed, wan*ered, pie eyed, plastered, sh**-faced
Easy - A doddle, a cinch
Expensive - it costs a bomb, or is dear.
Good looking - "a sight for sore eyes", fit, tidy, hot
Great - Brill, ace, the bees knees, the dogs bo**ocks
Have sex - bonk, bang you, shag you, hump you, screw you
Lucky - Jammy, flukey
Make a mess - a dogs dinner
Mocking someone - Taking the pi**, taking the mickey, pulling your leg
Mistake - a coc*-up, or ba**s-up, or a bodge
Party - Pi** up, knees up
Picking someone up - chatting them up, kopping off with them, getting off with them.
Smug person - 'like the cat the got the cream', or 'a dog with two di**s'.
Stupid - Thick, stupid, gormless, air head, bubble head
Talk too much - going on and on, waffling, don't shut up, gabbing
Ugly - munter, pig, dog, skank
Very Sad - Gutted, devastated
People from different areas:
- Liverpool - Scouser, or Liverpudlian
- Manchester - A Manc (short for Mancunian)
- Newcastle - A Geordie
- Birmingham - A Brummie, or Brummigen
- London - Londoner or Cockney
- Bristol - Bristolian
- Glasgow - Glaswegian
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
I'm so excited! We'll spend a few days in London, and then travel north to Yorkshire, Harrogate to be exact. So I expect to spend most of our time in the northern part of England. Also I would like to research some of my family tree a bit - which is in Northumberland.
My daughter is moving to Harrogate for the next four years so we'll be able to make more than one trip, hopefully. The plan is once a year. WOOOHOOO!
I hope so. I am a lifelong Anglophile. I've always been fascinated by British history, culture, etc.
Interesting - I'll let you know what I think!
Hmmmm, I'm in for a feast of words and phrases! By the way, I LOVE two British comedies in particular - Black Adder and Father Ted - because of the wit of the scripts especially. I mean, many British comedies are very well written but those two in particular really keep me laughing. Oh - and The Vicar of Dibley is well written too.
What are people from Yorkshire called?
cablescavenger
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These are pretty good
raining cats and dogs - raining hard
You could say someone is all over the place - they are either drunk and falling all over the place, or they are not very bright and are talking gibberish.
A gob****e - someone who talks rubbish or is loud and talks rubbish
full of sh** - someone who talks rubbish
If someone a little strange - you could say they are not right, or they are doolally, or not all there
If someone struggles to understand what everyone else seems to understand or they can't keep up with the conversationthen they are slow or not on the same wavelength, or not the sharpest tool in the box.
A bad day - is an off day
A good day - a blinder
Dressed nice - smart, dapper, looking the biz, or trendy if it is up to date.
Clothes - kit, gear, outfit
McDonalds - MaccaDees
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
It's amazing how many similarities there are - or maybe not amazing, but entertaining. For instance we also say "not right," for weird. We say "raining cats and dogs," and "full of ****" and "off day" and "outfit," and something ALMOST MaccaDees - we say Mickey Dees.
cablescavenger
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Harrogate is lovely (posh end of Yorkshire) and the countryside surrounding it is stunning. I was up Yorkshire last weekend visiting a friend. I traced my mothers family back to around 1702 they were all farmers from the Yorkshire Dales around the Leyburn area.
They are extremely friendly people in Yorkshire and they will take the mickey and laugh at you, but don't take heart it is a way of showing acceptance and being friendly, so let people laugh at you and don't be afraid to poke fun back at them.
You will probably struggle to understand much of what they say when you first arrive, Yorkshire is a strong dialect. (as is Northumberland).
If you want to do some genealogy join ancestry.com and try and find out as much as you can about relatives from living relatives because in the UK you can't get hold of census data until 100 years have passed, so it helps if you can get that far back without relying on the census data.
You will notice a massive difference between the London accent and Yorkshire.
If you want a taste of the Yorkshire accent look up last of the summer wine on youtube, particularly the character called compo.
For hello they will probably say "ay'up" (hey up)
Good taste. Black Adder is mint (good), as is Father Ted (I have seen all of the episodes of both of them), the Vicar of Dibley is ok but not so good as the other two.
As far as I know just Yorkshire men and Yorkshire lasses.
You might like this advert for Yorkshire airlines.
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Yorkshire Airlines - YouTube