Spelk

[Lord Potts]

When I first moved down south I always rember the reaction to expressions like "You'll get wrong." and "I'll play war with you."!

 

[MackemBob]

Being bad instead of feeling ill. Confuses lots of folk north of the border.

 

[PrisonBroken]

Don't get me started on Monkeys Blood.

It'll be cold day in hell when I ask for Rasberry Flavouring on me 99.

You are 100 percent correct but in sunny Burnage I asked for that and he said, do you want blackcurrant as well? Two f***ing sauces, it's the future

 

[Latka Gravas]

You may need to edit this marra.

Read it again.
You said you asked for winkles not willicks

 

[Jasper]

Funnily enough I had my first spelk since I was about 14 yesterday.

 

[MEEKLANGLEYFTM]

A splinter is a 5ft rat that looks after the ninja turtles, some wranguns down south mind

 

[The Muffin Man]

The next one the southerners hate is when two people from Sunderland speak to each other. Mate said, you might as well literally be speaking another language, you lot speak so fast and not a word of it sounds like English. I have an accent but deffo posh mackem hybrid, they would be fucked if they spoke to anyone off my estate.

 

[Deleted member 5265]

Word origin of 'spelk'

from Old English spelc, spilc surgical splint; related to Old Norse spelkur splints

OED:

Etymology: Old English spelc (also spilc), = West Flemish spelke (De Bo), Norwegian spjelk, Icelandic spelka, †spjalk, related to Middle Dutch spalke (Kilian spalcke), spalc(Dutch spalk), Low German spalke, spalk splinter, chip.

 

[muggboots]

Apparently, children in other parts of the country don't get wrong.

Aye. That's a topper.

The next one the southerners hate is when two people from Sunderland speak to each other. Mate said, you might as well literally be speaking another language, you lot speak so fast and not a word of it sounds like English. I have an accent but deffo posh mackem hybrid, they would be fucked if they spoke to anyone off my estate.

It's class when abroad if someone is trying to earwig the conversation.

 

[The Muffin Man]

Aye. That's a topper.


It's class when abroad if someone is trying to earwig the conversation.

Truth mate, its like you are speaking chinese to some people.

 

[muggboots]

Truth mate, its like you are speaking chinese to some people.

Even southerners struggle when you hoy in chebble, clarts, narkies and pagger.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

Aye. That's a topper.


It's class when abroad if someone is trying to earwig the conversation.

or read it for that matter... sometimes the way some of you fuckers "speak" on here and the words you use just leave me feeling like I'm trying to read Beowulf in the original old English...

Actually, do find it fascinating though.

Even southerners struggle when you hoy in chebble, clarts, narkies and pagger.

ahem, not just southerners, pal

 

[muggboots]

or read it for that matter... sometimes the way some of you fuckers "speak" on here and the words you use just leave me feeling like I'm trying to read Beowulf in the original old English...

Actually, do find it fascinating though.


ahem, not just southerners, pal

It's a gift. It's not just the colloquialisms and slang, it's the speed we can spit it out. Hewmanwaddyathinkyafuckindeeingmanyaradgedfuckingbastard? Yagannagerrusfuckingclippedallower.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

It's a gift. It's not just the colloquialisms and slang, it's the speed we can spit it out. Hewmanwaddyathinkyafuckindeeingmanyaradgedfuckingbastard? Yagannagerrusfuckingclippedallower.

From the sound of this thread the rest of England has a hard time understanding you fuckers so I don't feel so bad

 

[Beery]

Skelf in Scotland

 

[muggboots]

From the sound of this thread the rest of England has a hard time understanding you fuckers so I don't feel so bad

You're lucky, our speech actually pre-dates written English so I had to slow it down to type that.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

You're lucky, our speech actually pre-dates written English so I had to slow it down to type that.

I believe it

 

[muggboots]

I believe it

Never mind gallowers, gissies, plunders, benkers or crackets.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

Never mind gallowers, gissies, plunders, benkers or crackets.

Yeah... you're going to have to translate that. I tried looking them up on Google and this is what I got as a response:

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[Abu Dhabi Red and White]

Misread the title, thought this was a thread about @Frijj

I thought it was about plank causing grief again...