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    So what words do you use that you know others say different.

    For example .......


    Pictures ......movies ........cinema


    Knickers .......pants


    Tomato sauce .......ketchup


    Lounge ........living room


    To be made redundant .........laid off


    Jacket potato ..........baked potato


    Jumper ............ Sweater


    Bottom .......bum .........ass ...........butt .........rear end


    Toilet .......... Loo ......... Bog


    I'm sure you can think of more ..... Do you use slang words?


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    packed lunch - pack up

    fairy cakes - buns

    duvet - doona ( picked this one up in Oz and its stuck! )

    pick up truck - ute


    funnily enough my sil and i were talking about this only week, but in a 'regional' difference way!

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    the ones people laugh at me for are: (I hail from Cardiff)

    bathers (swimsuits)
    daps (plimsolls)

    sure there are more ....I'll be back.
    if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got

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    Quote Originally Posted by loocyloo View Post
    packed lunch - pack up

    fairy cakes - buns

    duvet - doona ( picked this one up in Oz and its stuck! )

    pick up truck - ute


    funnily enough my sil and i were talking about this only week, but in a 'regional' difference way!
    Doona

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Juggler View Post
    the ones people laugh at me for are: (I hail from Cardiff)

    bathers (swimsuits)
    daps (plimsolls)

    sure there are more ....I'll be back.
    Daps Never heard of that

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    I use doona for duvet as well, and jandels for flip flops. Both picked up from my New Zealand born best friend!! Xx
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    Lunch - dinner
    Tea - dinner
    maiden - clothes horse
    bowl - dish
    dish cloth - tea towl

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    plimsols are pumps here.

    Baps can be rolls, buns, cobs.

    But then again Im a Stokie so yes lots of slang her. We dunner talk posh here
    When someone tells you nothing is impossible, tell them to go slam a revolving door

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    Quote Originally Posted by FussyElmo View Post
    plimsols are pumps here.

    Baps can be rolls, buns, cobs.

    But then again Im a Stokie so yes lots of slang her. We dunner talk posh here
    We use those words too

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    Quote Originally Posted by angeldelight View Post
    Daps Never heard of that

    Angel xx
    We calls them daps here too
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    Don't know, but I often have my husband of almost 20 years stare at me and tell me he has no idea what I am saying! I was a scale E brat which pretty much messes up my dialect and accent so depending on where I am and who I am talking to my words will change without me even being aware of it. I now have 3 scale E brats of my own, so they will sound like they speak another language half the time too haha.

    Can't think of any specific words right now though other than scaffy. Taken me years and years and years to start to habitually call them bin men.

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    I say 'Leave me/him/her be' for leave me alone - one of my mindees cant get her head round that at all!
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    Quote Originally Posted by nannysue View Post
    We calls them daps here too
    where are you nannysue?
    if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got

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    there are saying that bother me :

    here men call the husband the old man and the wife the old tit!! I tell them off

    but i married a cockney and i'm french so some of the words i don't even know it's cockney, do i make sense?

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    Daps for me too !
    I too come from Wales and say "now in a minute" much to DH amusement
    x helen

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    there's afrench expression that hubby find strange is "oui mais non" which translate as yes but no!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mum22 View Post
    Daps for me too !
    I too come from Wales and say "now in a minute" much to DH amusement
    lol, yes and 'over by here' and 'is it?' at the end of every sentence - well not so much now as I've lived here for 24 years.
    if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got

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    I am a daps wearer too and I also say now in a minute .

    Hark - listen

    Uch a fi - yuck (I am Welsh but a non Welsh speaker )

    I say it's picking when it is begining to rain.
    Why hasn't Gary Barlow come to my rescue yet?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jelly15 View Post
    I am a daps wearer too and I also say now in a minute .

    Hark - listen

    Uch a fi - yuck (I am Welsh but a non Welsh speaker )

    I say it's picking when it is begining to rain.
    ooh yes I say 'uch a fi' too to all my little ones - much to their amusement. and we have a cwch sometimes instead of a cuddle
    if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got

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    My daughter in law has recently moved from the Ukrain to good ole Zomerzet and she say's we all speaks funny

    She can't get the difference between tea/dinner ..... she was cooking 'dinner' and my hubby came in and said, 'when's tea ready', she put the kettle on

 

 
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