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The term Pegged it, in Essex means some one ran away, but the same term in Suffolk means some one died, so you can see theres plenty of space for confusion.
Now my main gripe, I dislike the Norfolk accent, in fact I hate.
They have a god awful phrase 'It craze me it do' which when translated means 'its driving me mad'.
I hate it but hear it frequently as im working Norfolk presently.
So what are your pet hates thens ?
The child may belong to them both, but pregnancy is a medical condition of being impregnated and so can only be true about the woman.
Genearlly true, but I am reminded of the ditty I learned as a youngster...
When Mary had a little lamb,
The doctors were surprised,
But when Old McDonald had a farm,
You should have seen their eyes!
It was bad, and it was my fault, so it was my bad.
:) *Please note the, like, tongue in cheek nature of this post, even though I could care less what you think.* :)
- "Synergy"
- "Team Building" (if your company needs to conduct team building exercises, then the cause is already lost)
- "Our Product is Quality" (or any variation - pretty much any use of the word "quality" in marketing speak)
I spent over 2 years working with a Social Agency - social workers need a swift boot to the head to dislodge the following from their vocabulary:
- "Socially Disadvantaged" translates to - "He's an a**hole no one wants to talk to."
- "Sympathy Fatigue" - actually, I kind of like this one, it applies to people who work in the field, are burnt out, and don't give a rat's butt anymore.
- "He has impulse control issues" - various meanings, best summed up by "He's a hopeless thieving junkie prone to violence."
- Everything is qualified as an "issue" - "He has substance abuse issues" - "He has anger management issues" etc.
Counselor speak in general. One particular bottom feeder I can think of who was an endless pain in my butt. My solution was to get him out of his cushy semi private room and push him into the gen pop of the shelter system, thereby motivating him to get off his lazy butt and get a job. His counselor's response was: "I don't think that's a valid approach. One day, (doofus) is just going to have to wake up and realize he's in a shelter." - Doofus had a semi private room and three square a day on the government's tab for over two years, he was NEVER going to wake up and realize he was in a shelter.
And on and on....
(sorry - i don't know how to do a quote)
jacked up - Canada; means you've been busted/arrested by the police.
a french friend (new to english) once told me -mistakenly- he'd been jacked off by the police and was quite puzzled when i laughed about it.
my moms friend (from England) once told her she would 'knock her up' in the morning. meaning she'd knock on the door and wake her up.
us Canajuns say EH, not AY... ya hoser:) (no offense) lol.
For a while, everything was "robust". I'm glad that's dying down.
I hate that phrase/cliche as it's overused and would never be written in the context of its common use.
It's creeping into common use by non-English speakers, too.
Most people don't listen to what they say, and if they did, they'd be shocked and surprised.
It was bad, and it was my fault, so it was my bad.
From what I've now read I understand that the expression was contrived by a Sudanese basketball player - Manute Bol - in the States c.1980's.
Apparently his grasp of the English language was very poor and upon making a mistake on the court "my bad" was all his limited vocabulary would allow.
Having said that, other sources online state that the phrase was around in the 70's...
...tragically unhip...
No, just not American. And not so easily influenced that I would want to add such an interjection to my lexicon ;-)
Syzygy
It only gets to me when I read it, but it still makes absolutely no sense to say I could care less when in actually fact you couldn't.
It would be like me telling my wife "I could love you more", and before I try that I will check my health insurance.
[edited by: Visit_Thailand at 12:51 pm (utc) on May 7, 2008]
Newcastle (a city in the Northeast of England) accents are impossible to understand. No, it is not just southerners and foreigners: I have seen people from Newcastle struggle to make themselves understood in the Northwest (Manchester) as well.
There is one Americanism I really loathe: "I am good", for "I am well". I was enquiring about your well being, not your morality.
"We are going to proceed on a GO FORWARD BASIS"
Really! You are not going to go back in time ... argh!
Or you here this a lot in the sports world. Its a lazy rhetorical device when you can only think of one example but you want it to appear that there are many examples.
"the Wayne Gretzky's of the world"
Or insert any famous athlete or person.
There is only one Wayne Gretzky, why did you pluralize it?
Those are my two.
"know what I'm sayin'?" - used 15 times in one spoken paragraph and my answer is, "Now I have no idea".
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"Hi, howareyou?" - west coast US, mostly
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[like they care. they don't even know me. they don't even look me in the face. if I dare answer the question with anything but a 'finehowareya?', communication breaks down, they stare me in the face with their fake smiles and ask 'huh?', not knowing what just happened]
I'm pretty much indifferent when it comes to regional phrases as long as I get their meaning.
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what blows my fuse is when people use their accents / or the lack of it / in combination with local or an oh-so-politically-correct choice for words as an OVERLY POLITE and articulate way to emphasize: they're right, you are wrong.
Because you're not from around /and-or/ don't speak the local language /and-or/ don't have the proper vocabulary of a 5xPhD.
While in most cases those best in communicating are worst when it comes to thinking on their own. meaning most of their knowledge ( of words/language/literature/profession/themselves/environment ) is coming from consuming stuff instead of thinking, i.e. are sometimes downright *dumb*. Dumb people giving a well articulated lecture. Terminals to a system, where you can listen but can't debate or answer.
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that one gets me an adrenaline rush every time.
I'd prefer talking to someone who's undereducated but has their own brains.
Regards...jmcc
Some of those New Englanders seemed to have that word and that word only in their vocabulary.
I'm flabbergasted when folks suggest that us Canucks say "aboot" instead of "about"
I love Canada and (most) Canadians. That said, I heard "aboot" just a couple of weeks ago over the tele in a conversation with an associate in Alberta.
Better yet, last time I was in BC (Victoria, more precisely) I was asking for directions and was told to, "take the 'roond aboot way..." - a phrase my wife and I still laugh 'aboot'.
someone: can i have/do/whatever something?
me: no
someone whines: oh, come on?!?
especially when an adult says it. as if 'come on' is their best argument that i should give in to what they want.
I am also annoyed by the widespread use of estuary English particularly when this is combined with the Australian-like rising inflection at the end of every sentence so that everything sounds like a question.
The substitution of "a" for "er" at the end of words like "betta", "matta", "cleva" etc heralds the destruction of English and the rise of textspk. In a few years time they will be just grunting and pointing, like we British do when communicating with Johnny Foreigner.
Also without meaning any offence to our close neighbours who are restrained behind Hadrians wall (although I am sure they believe it is to keep us out) I am always surprised that broad Scottish accents do not have English Subtitles on TV. Particularly the Glasgow accent. There was a Scottish trade union leader called Jimmy Knapp who was always being interviewed back when the Unions were a power in the land. I could never understand a word he said, it amazed me that the interviewer could understand enough to ask the questions. I suspect careful editing was used.
Finally I come from Hampshire and was blissfully unaware of my strong(ish)Hampshire drawl until I first worked in London and all my colleagues constantly took the mickey out of my "Country Bumpkin" accent. Now I work in Southampton where we are all convinced that we are speaking standard English but just today a woman from Yorkshire phoned and thought I was one of my colleagues, because "you all sound so alike with that strong accent".
I'm flabbergasted when folks suggest that us Canucks say "aboot" instead of "about"
I thought the pronunciation was "aboat," but in any case, nothing against Canadians but I never heard one who didn't pronounce it that way! ;)
Along with northern Wisconsin, parts of Minnesota, North Dakota, etc. (Actually, my mother's side of the family has a strong Minnesota/Scandinavian heritage and many of them talk that way too.)
Along with northern Wisconsin, parts of Minnesota, North Dakota, etc. (Actually, my mother's side of the family has a strong Minnesota/Scandinavian heritage and many of them talk that way too.)
Oh, Ya, sure, dontyouknow, Southern Wisconsin is the same.
Anyway essex Accents, 'ell it like dis init ? I dont have an Essex accent but a weird mixture of Thames Estuary and Fenland. Sooo I drop my H's and over state my A's. So my home town sounds like AaaaaVerill would it should be Haverhill- Pronouced correctly as 'Camels armpit'
And she was warned to refer to him as Sir and not as her mate, to which she replyed 'Wicked mate'. She came very close to being jailed for contempt that day.
Enough of that already!
When did "already" become a full stop?
Nobody has mentioned this one so far ... maybe I'm an oddsod.
who told me that after an accident the guy pegged it
Phrase: Anything involving the word "respect"
