I'm not sure I loved it ...

Er, but you didn't actually read all of it... you sort of skimmed it, and read chunks here and there, if I recall!



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Because it quickly convinced me not to read any more.

I'll see whether my local library has a copy...

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Another phrase used round here (Nottingham) is "Eh up, me duck" meaning "hello" - It is used to best mates, total strangers, dogs, cats and canaries.
BTW "Goodbye" is "ta-rah a bit"

Well, we're getting on to regional variation here, which is a bit more specialist. Westcountry for "OK" is "done d'rec'ly" (done directly), or so I'm led to believe.



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"Whisky-wa-wa," I breathed - she was dressed as Biffo the Bear.

In Worcestershire, you are quite likely to be addressed as "lover" by a total stranger, of either sex. This can be outright scary until you realise that it's just the standard local greeting!



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

KT - have you seen the book on Derbyshire / Ilkeston slang, called some spelling variant of 'Ey up me duck' ? Didn't know this expression went as far as Notts.

Derbyshire born and Derbyshire bred -
Strong in the arm and wake in the head.

It's only in Yorkshire that they think the above reads WEAK.

Dave R - 'appen.
(Translation - "Yes, I have in fact read the aforementioned book and found it to be most illuminating")

"Eh up, me duck" is THE Nottingham phrase. I am currently wearing a teeshirt with it printed on, from the Nottingham Tourist Office. I wore it recently in Canada and got some very funny looks until someone asked me if it was rude, then I stopped.

Chortle.

Nextian equivalent, 'Eh up me dodo' ? (No ducks). Or, are we are from Caversham Heights?

To go back up a bit, I'd definitely call myself Scottish rather than British. But there is a difference up here, there's more animosity towards the English (as a nation, rather than personally!) so we go all nationalistic...

People got advised fairly recently, though, to put British on their CV rather than Scottish, especially if they were applying for jobs in England, because they wouldn't get hired because people would think they were rabid Scottish Nationalists and would pop up in full highland dress with haggis, or something. Does this seem likely?



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My friend, Tony, was startled the first time a Sheffield shopkeeper addressed him as 'love' - he's from Brighton and they don't say that kind of thing down south.

I was chuffed (pleased, made up) when a Glasgow marketstallholder addressed me as 'hen'

I never picked up much Norfolk dialect, but 'bor', means friend/neighbour. A sign outside a village near where my parents live, reads 'Drive thee careful, bor'.

Well, they also recommended English students put 'British' in case the boss wa a rabid nationalistic Scot, so...



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My friend, Tony, was startled the first time a Sheffield shopkeeper addressed him as 'love' - he's from Brighton and they don't say that kind of thing down south.

I use that term all the time and count myself as a Southerner. (London>Essex>Cambridge)

Oh, did they? That's OK then, I guess...



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In fact, in North Devon and Somerset (and possibly elsewhere in the west country), it is unusual not to be addressed as 'my lover', 'my bird' or 'my duck'. Whether or not you are any of the above -- this tends to be more true the olde the person addressing you is, though.

Bluebottle: London->Essex->Cambridge -- you seem to be accelerating nothwards. Wave on the way past, won't you?



Jesus saves; Buddha does incremental backup.

Wave on the way past, won't you?

Meet you in Macclesfield?

Does anyone else know of the phrase 'going to see a man about a dog' for going to the loo (toilet)?

My grandad used to say that all the time

nggy

I say 'love','duck' and 'darling' from time to time, if that confuses things further?



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'going to see a man about a dog'

My South African grandmother said it all the time. Now it's pretty standard in my family. I recently met an American friend who knew it, too, although I think the translation was a little different.

Incidentally, Americans do not use "loo," and "toilet" is considered a bit unseemly. The polite term is "restroom."