Thread: Dialects - what's yours?

Hello everyone,

Random train of thought today led me to an interesting way to kill some time. I was at work today and a lady went past and asked her friend 'D'you want a tuttu?' Now, it's been a long time since I heared the word 'tuttu', and for the non-East Midlanders out there the sentence can be translated as 'Do you want a sweetie?' My granddad, he of the 'Coad out, int' it?' (translation: 'Cold out, isn't it?') would often offer round tuttus or 'tuffies', but he was the only person I knew who used the words. Coincidentally, he was also one of the only people I knew with a very heavy Derby accent. And the random overheard sentence today got me thinking about dialect.

A girl at university once asked me to participate in her dialect project, asking me what terminology I used for different things. For example, what did I call a round falt piece of bread you put a burger in. I called it a cob. She looked at me wide eyed - 'I've never heard that one before'. Two pages of results in tiny handwriting, and amongst all the baps, rolls, barm cakes, stotties and even teacakes, I had said the first 'cob'. Strangely, the year before I had bonded with many new friends over the different terms for this ver object, and it was not until I met a fellow Derbeian that I was not laughed at for the word 'cob'. It seems to be unheard of outside of Derby and Nottingham (where there is the shop, The Cobfather, so I know they know it too).

I'm sure Pixie is probably the only one here who has the slightest idea what I'm on about, so come one people - what's your dialect? What words and phrases do you use that have out-of-towners looking at you with bemusement?

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Originally Posted by Fleur du Mal

Hello everyone,

Random train of thought today led me to an interesting way to kill some time. I was at work today and a lady went past and asked her friend 'D'you want a tuttu?' Now, it's been a long time since I heared the word 'tuttu', and for the non-East Midlanders out there the sentence can be translated as 'Do you want a sweetie?' My granddad, he of the 'Coad out, int' it?' (translation: 'Cold out, isn't it?') would often offer round tuttus or 'tuffies', but he was the only person I knew who used the words. Coincidentally, he was also one of the only people I knew with a very heavy Derby accent. And the random overheard sentence today got me thinking about dialect.

A girl at university once asked me to participate in her dialect project, asking me what terminology I used for different things. For example, what did I call a round falt piece of bread you put a burger in. I called it a cob. She looked at me wide eyed - 'I've never heard that one before'. Two pages of results in tiny handwriting, and amongst all the baps, rolls, barm cakes, stotties and even teacakes, I had said the first 'cob'. Strangely, the year before I had bonded with many new friends over the different terms for this ver object, and it was not until I met a fellow Derbeian that I was not laughed at for the word 'cob'. It seems to be unheard of outside of Derby and Nottingham (where there is the shop, The Cobfather, so I know they know it too).

I'm sure Pixie is probably the only one here who has the slightest idea what I'm on about, so come one people - what's your dialect? What words and phrases do you use that have out-of-towners looking at you with bemusement?

Now you're talking MY language Fleur!!!!!!!!!!! Have you read 'Ey up mi duck'????? Buy it for Southerners and get them to translate it........hilarious!!!!!!! Sorry Southerners!!!

I always try to imagine MoBsters talking in their local accent. For example Amethyst in Nor'n Irish. Sad but true!!

kisses
PixieParasol

ps there is a facebook group calle 'it's called a COB'!!!!!!!!!!!! must join it!!!!!!

Originally Posted by PixieParasol

ps there is a facebook group calle 'it's called a COB'!!!!!!!!!!!! must join it!!!!!!

HA! I've seen that - but I dislike Facebook ....

Originally Posted by Fleur du Mal

HA! I've seen that - but I dislike Facebook ....

I used to be a non-facebooker although I was a member. But over the last couple of months I have found lots of colleagues, old friends and............ex boyfriends on there so I like to have a nosey at everyones life!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also the quick chat thing is handy, they don't have that on myspace.

kisses
PixieParasol

Eeeeeeh lass tha's never 'ad a crusty cobb

Sheffield has some amazing dialects and slang so much so that I'm amazed that people form one side can understand those from the other! Some faves are:

Gennel - a narrow passageway between (usually) terrace houses
Mardy - prone to sulky and grumpy behaviour (also known as "'avin face on" or even "'avin cob on")
Nesh - sensitive to or scared of the cold
Snap - food
Spice - sweets / confectionary
Thee, thar, dee, dar - you/your

Originally Posted by evildrneil

Eeeeeeh lass tha's never 'ad a crusty cobb

Sheffield has some amazing dialects and slang so much so that I'm amazed that people form one side can understand those from the other! Some faves are:

Gennel - a narrow passageway between (usually) terrace houses
Mardy - prone to sulky and grumpy behaviour (also known as "'avin face on" or even "'avin cob on")
Nesh - sensitive to or scared of the cold
Snap - food
Spice - sweets / confectionary
Thee, thar, dee, dar - you/your

We also use mardy, snap and nesh........ but a gennel is a jitty!!

kisses
PixieParasol

I'm a yamyam (Black country wench).

I am not too happy with my accent, people assume I'm thick because of it. I have my moments but I'm not really...

I don't like a lot of scouse dialect (all the "lad" stuff arggg!) but I probably use more of it than I realise. I remember talking to a girl from Sunderland once who didn't know what I meant when I said someone was "made up."

Oh, and it's definitely a burger "bun", but if it's for a sandwich ("butty") then it's a barm.

A mixture. I use words like mardy (I can't imagine another word for being mardy actually, non of the standard dictionary words seem to describe it well enough for me), but they don't form a massive part of my dialect. I use cob and bap interchangably though.
I probably use more localised words these days by virtue of having to make myself understood (particularly necessary when finding people looking at you as if you were speaking Martian).
I have been accused of coming from the home counties repeatedly, despite all denials and Lancashire (and also Canada?!), I'm not quite sure why people think I would lie about being from Nottingham it's not that great. So I assume that on the whole my dialect is mostly non-specific.

Oh i love these things...

Im from Between Southport and Preston in Lancashire, Have a french mother and a scouse father so mines fairly mixed!!

but ham salad between two clice of bread ....is a butty!!
round flat bread...Barm or Bun...

We use
Numpty - Idiot
Ginnel (between terraced houses)
Kecks/Pants = Trousers
Made up! some people i know have never heard this as well as "on the sly"

Baggin Time = Break time!

But fleur...Ive heard of Cob!!:excited: