To ask if you've ever had a dialect fail

[DizzyZebra]

I think dialect is the right word?

Anyway, I once really offended a girl who was new to my school. I had made friends with her and she invited me to her house, She got changed and i said 'Omg that suits you dead bad!'. Now, As an adult, I agree with her and can see the stupidity in saying something like that, BUT it was something EVERYONE where i lived said when really what they meant was 'That really suits you'.

She imediately looked hurt and i could tell by the look on her face she thought i was back pedaling as i sort of choked and tried to explain, and stuttered through it. I think she realised within a few weeks when she made more friends though.

My Mum also, after moving to the north, became increasingly frustrated one night. Her partners son came downstairs and asked her (As she was folding laundry) if there were any of his pants in there.

She said 'Yeah there are some over in the other pile'

He went over to look and said he couldn't find any, My mum said there were definitely some in there. He searches again and still can't find any. My mum said 'I just this minute put some red pants of yours in there, i know i did! They must be there'

He says 'I don't have any red pants'

My mum marches over, Grabs a pair of red boxers and says 'Look! red pants! See!'

Only for him to fall about laughing as he had actually meant trousers, and everyone here calls them pants, she just didn't know.

Favourite thread ever....rofl

Tangles in hair are cotters. Tangled or matted hair is cottered. I bought a book about Northern Lincolnshire dialect as it is dying out. It reminded me of my grandparents as they used words that are seldom heard anymore. I've lived in the north west too and encountered new words there. Like skriking vs bealing (already mentioned) a chip butty and a chip barm both being on the menu and being different (had never heard of a barm cake). My grandad always said mu'nt and wi'nt (pronounced sort of mooant and weeant) for must not and will not. Yer mu'nt....preceded an instruction not to do something. It wi'nt 'ot yer was his way of saying that the neighbour's dog was in fact friendly. I miss hearing him speak a lot, it was wonderful and should have been recorded.

My mum is from Sheffield, and when she first moved down to London, she got a teaching job. One of the children in the classroom asked her "Where's the bin?", to which she naturally replied "I 'ant bin nowhere"

"gave her into trouble!" i am from ne scotland and dh is from sw scotland and we had a few arguments about this, he wants to be english i think, but he lives up here now so I've got him telt!

Or alternatively I've learned him!

I'm from Glasgow but my my partner is from Fraserburgh in the North East. He got a slap a while ago for saying he'd taken the notion for a fancy peice.
Like someone said up thread it's a cake but I thought he fancied a bit on the side.
I was confused when he asked me when the scaffies were coming too. To me a scaffie is a scaffolder but in the NE it's a bin man apparently.

This thread has reminded me of something my sister said last year, still makes me chuckle.

We grew up near Bristol (but Dad's from W London & mum's Irish). I moved up to Derbyshire a few years ago, where DH is from. Sis moved into this area last year too.

We were going t' pub, DH asked her if she wanted to come too. She replied "Aye, I'll come t'pub, where's it to?"

Lovely melding of Bristolian and Derbyshire

My friend aged 16 on a hair and beauty course at college had a guest speaker giving a talk about working on cruise ships. When I later asked her how it went she said with horror, "I could never do it, she said you have to have an injection in your fanny!"
The guest speaker was Amercian

I love this thread.

QOD.I think you should ask Mumsnet to remove the 'R' word from your latest post though.I'm sure you didn't mean to be offensive but it is an offensive term.

Done Marmalade. Certainly don't want to offend, thanks for pointing it out nicely

I terrified a new mum at our school, who isnt a locaI l when I phoned and told her her DD had a coggi on her head. Coggi is a bump which has come out in big lump..

I quite like 'how' - pronounced like across between how and who - as a general exclamation:'How, what y'deein?' Or just, 'How, man, lad'.

I do say 'Haway'. And 'Haddaway and shite'

nottingham has twitchell

I'm from Birmingham and years ago offered to go to the outdoor for my boyfriend and myself. Outdoor is off licence for non-brummies. I asked him what he would like and he, being from the Black Country (dudley etc) said " don't mind, as long us they're Colduns". I had never heard of Colduns and asked him repeatedly what he meant before he explained that Colduns meant " cold ones" I.e. didn't care what brand as long as they came out of the fridge.

Weirdo ( but i still married him)

oo - I love this thread. Not quite read all yet, though. We have a word here for small passageways between houses or footpaths, and it's "twitten". I think this is local to the South East. I have heard "jitty" used in Leicestershire for the same sort of thing. Tell me your "twitten"!

Oh - just seen I've repeated the alleyway thing - should have read to the end - sorry!

First time I mixed with folk from Englandshire somone asked me where something was, to which I (naturally) replied 'I don't ken' and they were really grumpy with me. Apparently she thought I'd said 'I don't care'. she was a grumpy cow herself so assumed the worst of everyone else

When living down south I phoned up a Ford dealership to ask if they had any Ka's for sale. We had a very confusing conversation while he asked me what kind of ca' I was interested in and I kept saying 'just a Ka' and eventually I spelt it and he said 'Oh, we call them K-A to avoid the confusion' to which I replied 'there is no confusion if you pronounce the letter 'r' in car'. I bought a Nissan instead.

Oh, and I got very funny looks the first time I tried to order a fish supper in a chippy in Oxford.

SP - nowt, owt but when I see the words nought and ought in books I always pronounce them nowt and owt.

Some words I think might have been pretty local to us in my part of Northumberland as I've never heard them anywhere else - gowk for apple core and ket for sweets, though I think ket might be an old Northumbrian word for rubbish.

Do any Geordies remember the shuggy boats at Whitley Bay? Are they still there?

I grew up in the Black Country and we'd say Gulley for Alleyway.

nickelbabe we always say indoors (am in Essex). I didn't realise that was even a thing. It means at home or inside to most people or no?

This thread is funny, although I don't know most of the terms as I'm from East Lndon and lots seem to be Scottish or northern. DH is from the Caribbean, we both speak English as our first language. Sometimes we can get so mixed up because of one or two words.

My parents and even my generation use quite a lot of cockney sayings and slang which drives DH mad! Also the way someone like my dad talks about money in terms of scores, tons, Ponys etc can lead to lots of confusion.

God I didn't think id get this many replies, I only posted as I've been reading 'scouselyrics' on twitter and found them hilarious and it made me think.

This is so funny though reading these.

My london friend had trouble understanding mardy too.

I have a good mix of midland and northern expressions now. I haven't been home for ages though and have picked up an accent here, but I don't sound like where I live - its sort of ended up like a snooty trying to be posh slightly irish sounding thing.

My friends will be horrified nextweek when they see me.