Misunderstood Regional Sayings (totally stolen idea from another thread!)

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When we moved from the North of England to London my partner had this conversation with a colleague:

Partner: “The cleaner proper saw her arse last night”
Baffled Collegue: “You saw the cleaner’s arse?”
Partner: “No! She seen her arse”
Baffled Colleague: “She was looking at her arse?”

This went on for some time!

When I started my new job they all laughed when I announced “the butty woman’s here” in my flat, Northern accent.

Puggies for slot machines is one (amongst many others on this thread) that confused me when I moved to Scotland.

I could scran scabby 'oss atween two back do-ers - my grandad was rather hungry

I've thought of another.
My gran always you say "be good the master is watching you"
The master was any man about the man behind the counter, the hairdresser, the butcher.....

"Fettled" as in "ready". "I'm off to get fettled now" or "Are you fettled?" I use this a lot.

Reminded if a few more Bristle phrases while smoothing me dog either going to the chippie for a cod lot or to the butcher for some chitterlings [yuuuum with white bread and butter] that you casn't go down the slider when the snow has ptched.

That must be simlar to eating a scabby pig between to bread vans @iklboo?

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@AamdC - I'd say so. Grandad was a Lancastrian, where's the pigs one from?

Don't want to derail the thread, but I can't help thinking that I hardly ever hear anyone speak in a very broad West Country accent nowadays. You will hear the occasional group of (really) old people having a laugh / moan but that's it.

Do people in other regions find the same?

(I still live in the West Country btw!)

Bolton so not far away

Maybe because peolple move around the UK more and immgration etc there is more of a generic accent Anything?

Good thought - and with the war grandad will have probably mixed with blokes from all differences areas and picked up sayings?

Anythingbutmagnolia - sadly I think accents are getting watered down due to more frequent migration.

I still have friends my age (mid 40's) with strong West Country accents but their DC's accents aren't so strong.

It's a shame I love all the different accents and phrasing.

AnythingButMagnolia I've got a very broad West Country accent . So do my family and most of my friends, neighbours and people I work with! (I'm 46)

Heman, good to hear

Mine fluctuates depending on who I'm with. It is very suppressed at work.

I fear my best efforts (trying sooo hard not to sound the 'arrr' ag end of words and replace with 'uhhh' still make me sound like a bit of a tit.

Pigs and horses? You were lucky. My dad would ‘ave et a scabby donkey.

@weebarra "Shan" cracks me up for some reason.

I particularly like when "barry" is used to mean great:
"It was a barry laugh, ken"

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Form as a word for bench or seat is national, an old usage. That's why we used to say 'first form' 'sixth form' etc. It was literal- in old one room school rooms you changed benches as you went up the school.

Thats intetesting @EarlyModernParent. Itsonly something i remember my Grandad saying but it makes sense i suppose!

Sorry if it’s already been said but is nesh regional. I used to hate being nesh before I hit what I can only imagine is early menopause!

A few more classics from my late grandad. Laldering - fussing, making an unintelligible noise. Like a midge on Pelham's pillar - very small/hard to see. Bird was pronounced bod. And you'll not ail a deal if meant follow this advice and all will be well.