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
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That's a good point. Accents must cause havoc with so many words
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.
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.
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Scandinavian origins .
Teg me hyem.
Almost the same in Swedish and here.
Ryhope alsoI grew up in Seaham. Table was "chebble" in our house.
Smart or clever in the US
Yeah, that has a completely different meaning here in the US
Since Norse was Germanic in origin it's probably got the same root?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’.
Exactly! It's just @Napoleon Dynamite is an uneducated cheb end!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
Bloodclatt I’ve heard too which I didn’t think was offensiveSo does claat to mean cloth if you think about a Jamaican accent.
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?”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
How the fuck do they sound even remotely similar? Think you might be pronouncing one wrong.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.
Since Norse was Germanic in origin it's probably got the same root?
Sometimes get the same confusion with Latin and Norman French.Yeah, that’s often where the confusion came in. We got them from the same place rather than us getting them from the Danes.
So basically any word beginning with “m” that has an “r” somewhere in it reminds him of “merde”.How the fuck do they sound even remotely similar? Think you might be pronouncing one wrong.
Appears that way.So basically any word beginning with “m” that has an “r” somewhere in it reminds him of “merde”.
The same sense Shirley? As in 'gan canny' i.e. take care.Tight with money in Scotchland.
Ye narr nowt ye lad.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.
Sneck 》latch.Been ages since I've heard sneck .
Chebble is NW County Durham. As us Byuk (book), skyul (school) etc. And Thoo (you)