To disown DD or move to Hampshire immediately?

[Lovecat]

She came home from first day in Y1 at (Greater London) school yesterday and said "Teacher arksed me"...

My inner pedant is appalled.

DH's reaction is to want us to move "back" to his neck of the woods so she grows up speaking proper, like. Is he over-reacting?

Oh Lovecat LOL. You can join me and Chute in our local not quite anywhere MN

Glad DD is enjoying school tho thats the main thing!!!

mumbar me to at the local.

queefer - are you amanda holden?

Oh yes forget she was from there!!

Your not far from me queefer - I'm Fareham.

Sharbie, how did you guess?

Actually, she was at our village fete in the summer. And she was in exp's class at school.

Mumbar, I like Fareham. It's my nearest town I think.

alright mushes...

mick's burgers? portsdown hill?
that takes me back...

has there been mention of the finest thing to come out of pompey since the Victory...? The word "squinny".

oh yh squinny

Yes! Squinny!

When I first moved from Winch to B-Dub I actually did this at the word. I had to have it explained to me. People were saying it to my DD!

yes we used to say 'arksed' back in the 80's too(school-days,Kent) I grew out of it I just thought it was trendy at the time! I'm sure she'll grow out of it too. Kids deliberately speak badly if they know it annoys their parents, its a form of rebellion. Unless she's at a particularly bad school in a rough area i would ignore it for now.

Squinny! Takes me back.

Also "somewhen". Never heard that outside Hampshire.

MrsD dd used somewhen the other day with such aplomb,I had to ask her to repeat herself. Genius word!I can't believe it'd never really registered as a made-upword before.

....anyone for 'cop the needle'?
I have never heard this anywhere else except Pompey!

How about 'gurt nice' or 'gurt night out' etc. Meaning very good, excellent

It was quite common when I was growing up.

Please god let it have died out.

Shudder at 'somewhen' and 'anywhen'. My Mum says both with frequency. Apparently it originates in Dorset. Had no idea it wasn't a word until I left Hampshire. Also 'reach' for 'retch'.

cop the needle, ha ha I've not heard that since my school days in Gosport.

What does that mean, sodslaw?

queefer
it means get annoyed/mildly angry

Also the Hampshire expression 'He's got a cob on' means something very different where I live now.

Where I live now it means he is in a mood. In Hampshire it meant he is in the mood

i always thought gurt meant great - as in it was a gurt big field

somewhen - doesn't everyone say this ??

this is my fave thread ever

move to Glesga then kids ill no hae an Inglish accent at aw