Local dialect

[Peasie]

Originally Posted by firewoman

Aww, thanks ren, you've just solved a life long mystery of mine. People in Glasgow are called China too and I ALWAYS wondered why. Now I know, yay!

I don't think this is where the Glasgow version comes from. My mum would say to me when I was a child - "ma wee china".....so, mate doesn't seem right in this context.

[Andist]

cheers for the reps guys.

China gets used as mate all the time.

There's a lot of london slang based on fractions of an once:

Henry the Eigth

Farmer's daghter = quarter

Dirty laugh = half

[Medea]

treacle is from, I think, treacle tart, sweetheart (or just tart!).

I'm not from London but now I live here so pick up the odd thing.

"On the hu" is one suffolkism I still use. I also say "going home" when something is close to breaking.

ren

[firewoman]

Originally Posted by Peasie

I don't think this is where the Glasgow version comes from. My mum would say to me when I was a child - "ma wee china".....so, mate doesn't seem right in this context.

pah Peasie you cruel shatterer of illusions you! :D I guess in that context it doesn't seem quite right. I wonder where it does come from then? Maybe it means you are something fragile and precious? That's kind of what I had taken it to mean. What's your thoughts?

I have often pondered this. . I evidently think too much.

[Peasie]

Originally Posted by firewoman

pah Peasie you cruel shatterer of illusions you! :D I guess in that context it doesn't seem quite right. I wonder where it does come from then? Maybe it means you are something fragile and precious? That's kind of what I had taken it to mean. What's your thoughts?

I have often pondered this. . I evidently think too much.

I think the fragile and precious thing is about right.

[IRIS]

Originally Posted by Occultus

First time I met someone from the Black Countray, I was greeted with "Yow awlright, cock?!". Suffice to say I didn't know whether he was taking the piss or not.

I always call people cock or cocker. A nurse at work got into big trouble and a complaint was put in about her from a patient. She said to the patient 'come this way cock' and the patient did not like it , and the nurse was just being friendly
O'reight cocker? Is a a common sight in my taxt message inbox, meaning - how are you my friend?

[Medea]

I think in a generation my own local dialect will have died. There just aren't many people in Suffolk who use it anymore. My grandfather was virtually unintelligable with his suffolk broague, but when I went to school the one girl who had a hint of a Suffolk accent was picked on for it.

ren

In Sheffield, thee = dee and though = dar

[CatchMeIfYouCan]

Originally Posted by AnonymousLaura

I think that's a cockney slang one. China plate= mate. I've heard it a bit round here.

ren

yeah when I lived in London the regulars in the pub always used to greet me with "Alright mi old china!" and I remember one saying "There was claret everywhere" (blood)
A chav saying here in Gloucestershire is "cushty mush e-nit?" when translated means I am doing just fine mate. lol.
Interesting thread btw!

[Medea]

Yeah, I've heard people say "chusty" round here.

http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~mcstra/Suffolk.htm

That has a link to an "Ipswich" accent (not quite suffolk) if anyone is interested.

ren