Thread: Dialects - what's yours?

Fleur.......even I don't know what 'facadie' means!!!!!!!!!! And I'm local!!!

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PixieParasol

Originally Posted by PixieParasol

Fleur.......even I don't know what 'facadie' means!!!!!!!!!! And I'm local!!!

Heheh, well I guessed the spelling - I think it's a deliberate mispronouncing of 'feisty'. It describes a certain type of attitude displayed by many teenage girls. I'll show you the face that goes with it (think an Elvis lip-curl with a bad attitude behind it) and you'll know exactly what I mean! I think it might have been a specific time and place thing ...

Originally Posted by evildrneil

I've got a friend from New Zealand who once told me that ice-cream over there is called hokey pokey - I wonder if that comes from the same source!?

Not all icecream is called hokey pokey, there is one flavour which is vanilla with honeycomb bits called hokey pokey. Yummy...

Originally Posted by Emiwee

A friend of mine from New Zealand told me they call flip-flops jandal's, as in Japanese-sandals. I quite like that one

We do! Here's some more:

bach = beach house (also called a crib in the South Island of NZ)
tramping = hiking
kai = food (Maori) so you might say "I'm off for some kai"
kia ora = hello (Maori again)
togs = swimming costume
"sweet as" = kind of like "really good" as in "the gig was sweet as"
Pakeha = white person (Maori) pronounced pah-ke (as in egg)-hah
palangi = white person (Samoan I think)

Plus Kiwi's say " I reckon" a lot instead of "I think" and we put "eh" at the end of sentences - both of these have been beaten out of me over the past 6 years after getting mocked every single day for the first six months or so. One girl I used to work with was fascinated with how I said "bed" - more like "bid" and used to repeat everything I said!

My accent is much softer now and I can put on a pretty good RP (British Received Pronunciation - like a BBC presenter) accent to the extent that some people don't believe I'm a Kiwi.

Oh and in Australia they call flip-flops "thongs"

Originally Posted by Honey Wilde

kia ora = hello (Maori again)

Ha! Have you seen the orange squash?

Originally Posted by Fleur du Mal

Ha! Have you seen the orange squash?

Yes! Makes me giggle every time

oh born and brought up in the black country, lived Tipton and Oldbury i put a few words on here for you

Boster - something big or possibly something good

Bostin - literally "bursting" but actually "very good indeed" eg "We 'ad a bostin time" or "Ers a bostin wench"

Caw or cor - cannot, eg "I cor goo the'er terday"

Cocka/Cocker - mate, friend

Duck - evade, dodge

Dun Do - as in "What dun yo want?"

Fizzog - the face

Gawk - an ill dressed person, or to stare, eg "Who am yow gawkin' at ?"

Jiffy - brief moment, eg "E woe be a jiffy"

Lamp - to beat or thrash, eg "Ee giv' 'im a right lampin'"

Myther - to bother, to irritate, or be irritated by

got loads but thats just a sample ot the black country dialect

Couple of brummie ones to throw into the mix...
"0121" from the telephone dialing code meaning "do one" (kinda rhyming slang)
"Buz" Bus, plural "buzzes"