Non-natives - North East slang that means something different where you are

[Cockney Mackem]

That's a good point. Accents must cause havoc with so many words

The 70s film Slade in Flames about the eponymous Brummie rock band was originally going to be called the Quite A Mess Experiment

 

[Charmless Man]

Mine is 'sket' means give us a clue.
Braw, that is old Norse for good as well. 'Bairn' is another one that is Norse for child.

Unlikely we got bairn specifically from any Norse dialect, probably Anglo Saxon.

I always understood the word Canny to be a local word meaning pleasant or ok when referring to a person,
as in Canny Lad.

However I get the impression that in recent decades it’s been picked up in other areas of the U.K. and given an entirely different meaning as in clever, smart or worldly wise.

Comments ?

The use of ‘canny’ to mean that in other parts of the country isn’t really a recent thing.

Scandinavian origins .

Teg me hyem.
Almost the same in Swedish and here.

The ‘hyem’ thing is another one we got from our original Anglo Saxon dialect we often incorrectly assume comes from Old Norse because it sounds like Modern Danish.

It’s just our pronunciation of the old English term ‘ham’.

 

[ErichZann]

I grew up in Seaham. Table was "chebble" in our house.

Ryhope also

 

[Charmless Man]

Smart or clever in the US




Yeah, that has a completely different meaning here in the US

Heard that American comedian Tom Stade talking about being at a market stall in Britain where the trader shouts “I’ve got a bag of faggots!”

 

[safcrhys.]

I once called the mrs bonny and she turned around and slapped me, apparently bonny means chubby or fat in the Midlands.

 

[pillars of hercules]

Unlikely we got bairn specifically from any Norse dialect, probably Anglo Saxon.



The use of ‘canny’ to mean that in other parts of the country isn’t really a recent thing.



The ‘hyem’ thing is another one we got from our original Anglo Saxon dialect we often incorrectly assume comes from Old Norse because it sounds like Modern Danish.

It’s just our pronunciation of the old English term ‘ham’.

Since Norse was Germanic in origin it's probably got the same root?

 

[Typhoonftm]

Cheb = cock.
From the Sunderland yards - in describing a well hung gadgie's cock.
" He's gotta cock on him like a chebble ( table) leg.
Shortened to Cheb.
Fuck all to do with tits or any other Urban dictionary shite that is on the internet

Exactly! It's just @Napoleon Dynamite is an uneducated cheb end!

 

[cornish mackem]

So does claat to mean cloth if you think about a Jamaican accent.

Bloodclatt I’ve heard too which I didn’t think was offensive
I perceive it More as friends than owt else

Cheb = cock.
From the Sunderland yards - in describing a well hung gadgie's cock.
" He's gotta cock on him like a chebble ( table) leg.
Shortened to Cheb.
Fuck all to do with tits or any other Urban dictionary shite that is on the internet

So not, “she’s got a pair of tits like s chebble top, you can rest your pint on them or she can catch all the crumbs off her savaloy dip?”

 

[Typhoonftm]

That word bugs me to no end... sounds too much like the French "merde" to me. To me it sounds like what you would call the shit that is smeared on the toilet paper when you wipe.

How the fuck do they sound even remotely similar? Think you might be pronouncing one wrong.

 

[Charmless Man]

Since Norse was Germanic in origin it's probably got the same root?

Yeah, that’s often where the confusion came in. We got them from the same place rather than us getting them from the Danes.

 

[pillars of hercules]

Yeah, that’s often where the confusion came in. We got them from the same place rather than us getting them from the Danes.

Sometimes get the same confusion with Latin and Norman French.

 

[Mickdundee]

How the fuck do they sound even remotely similar? Think you might be pronouncing one wrong.

So basically any word beginning with “m” that has an “r” somewhere in it reminds him of “merde”.

 

[Typhoonftm]

So basically any word beginning with “m” that has an “r” somewhere in it reminds him of “merde”.

Appears that way.

 

[rokerexile]

Tight with money in Scotchland.

The same sense Shirley? As in 'gan canny' i.e. take care.

 

[Butcher's Coat]

What a mess of a post. Not even gonna bother editing that shit.

Book = byuk
Table = tyebble or tyabble

Chebble? Stick to talking about blokes Cocks ya lunatics.

Ye narr nowt ye lad.
Another one who never worked in the yards.

 

[dixonsafc]

Don’t ask for a bag of ket outside of the north east, especially if our plan on operating heavy machinery or being able the string a sentence together for a few hours afterwards.

 

[peachy]

Been ages since I've heard sneck .

Sneck 》latch.

 

[1more]

A lad from Gateshead said to me before he lives on chucky. Chucky meaning debt not a penis.

 

[fyl2u]

Chebble is NW County Durham. As us Byuk (book), skyul (school) etc. And Thoo (you)

Most of these were how we spoke in Seaham too.

For us it was byuk and sk(y)ewel (to rhyme with jewel), and for "you" it was usually "yayer" (to rhyme with layer but less emphasis on the "er") but I think there were times when "thou" was used too.

 

[The Snockerty Friddle]

Does anyone still sit on a cracket? Or was that just something my Grandparents made up?