That sound you made at primary school if someone broke a rule

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When I was at primary school, if someone broke a rule or did something deliberately naughty, we would make an ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm! sound, with the inflection rising then falling.

My husband (who comes from the West Country) says his peers used the same inflection, but with an 'ah' at the end: ummmmmmmmmmmmah! A friend once told me that where she came from (Northern England), it was a similar inflection, but the sound was ooooooooooooooh!

I've asked my teenage children about this, and none of them have any idea what I'm talking about. Was it just a 1980s thing? Does anyone here remember children doing this? If so, what sound, what part of the world and which decade?

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm!

70s/80s Surrey

And also jiiiiiiiiiii-meeeeeeeeeeee! For chin rub

Btw isn't the origin of chin rub because lying in body language is often accompanied by subconsciously rubbing your chin?

We "touted", "squealed", "slabbered" and "shit stirred", but rarely "told"

Am I the only one that has no idea what anyone is talking about?! OP do you mean when another child was a bit annoyed at something someone did and was going to tell or more in celebration of it? I'm imagining the whole class making these noises at once and the teacher getting very annoyed. I generally have a very good memory of primary school but am lost on this one (but fascinated!).

Example scenario:

It"s raining outside and the children are having indoor play in their classrooms. A group of six year olds are drawing pictures of their favourite superheroes. Alfie has been a bit daring and decided to draw Batman urinating into a bin. The children sitting near him notice what he has done. They know he is going to be in so much trouble when the teacher finds out. With raised eyebrows, in unison, they all exclaim "Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm!" (Or equivalent regional vowel sound).

Yes! West miss here
Definitely Ummmmmmm telling! To above scenario

But also

OooooooooHHHHHJJJooooh! For flouncing off behaviour

I wonder if all countries have this

Aaaaammmm! I changed region so not sure which one I picked it up in!

When your neighbour knocks you as you were working... Aaaaammmm! You jogged me!

Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

West Yorks

The kids at my school still make that noise. Often followed by ‘Miiiiiissssssss’

This suggests the origin of chinny reckon is from a German phrase!

metro.co.uk/2018/05/11/chinny-reckon-come-mean-7538824/

I gave mine upthread, but I have a both dh and dd, so hEre's theirs.

DH, 60s, NE Surrey, Uuuuuuum. Long u, with a short m at the end.
DD, noughties, East Devon, doesn't remember anyone doing it at all. ()

"...asked both dh and dd"

North Yorkshire (Commondale, Castleton, Egton Bridge schools) in the early 60s: we chorused "Eeeeyyyaaamm" a pause and then "Ah'm telling Miss of yooou"" - with long-drawn out, flat Yorkshire vowels.

I’m from East Anglia and we said Ammmmmerrrr!

@IMissGin yours is what I remember! West of Scotland. "Oheeoheeohee", which was sometimes followed by "chips and macaroni".

Between Stoke and Manchester, and ours was like a cross between an ohhh and an ahhh!

We said "chin rub" rather than chinny reckon in South London. A French person told me they mimicked playing a recorder instead of rubbing their chin if they didn't believe someone where he grew up

We said “ ommmmmmmmmerrrr am tellin on you” at primary school in Lincolnshire back in the late 60s. When I made the same sound to DD recently she looked at me like I was an alien so I thought it was some weird thing specific to my old village. So good to see it’s almost universal in one variant or another.

I'm from the north east....

With us it was always

Ommmmeeeerrrrrssssss