British Slang

[NOK222]

Hey fellas, I'm doing a writing project and I need to use British slang of the u wot m8 kind. So any help would be much appreciated. 

 

And this isn't a ruse or joke. 

Edited February 13, 2014 by NKKKK

[Gfted1]

Ello Guv'na.

[NOK222]

Ello Guv'na.

 

Now, which part is this specific slang from? 

Edited February 13, 2014 by NKKKK

[Monte Carlo]

Being British and from London I can help you. However you are being extraordinarily vague.

 

You just quoted some contemporary 'text-speak' for example. Slang from the UK is a big subject (Scotland and Northern Ireland have some extremely good slang, for example) and you need to narrow it down a bit. Do you want London rhyming slang? Some Irish traveller-influenced slang from Kent? West country rural slang? The fact that in Wiltshire a wood-louse is colloquially known as a 'Chucky Pig?'

 

Please elaborate and I shall provide.

Edited February 13, 2014 by Monte Carlo

[Gfted1]

 

Ello Guv'na.

 

Now, which part is this specific slang from? 

 

 

Per Urban Dictionary, the Southern parts of the UK.

[AGX-17]

The whole ****ney thing has been out for a long time.

 

Find a chav and try to see if you can endure 10 minutes. Record the word-like grunts that emerge from its throat and try to transcribe them.

Edited February 13, 2014 by AGX-17

[Raithe]

The other thing you might want to think  of.. Look up "Britishisms" on the internet.

 

http://britishisms.wordpress.com/

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_words_not_widely_used_in_the_United_States

 

There's been a few amusing news stories over people complaining about the corruption of the American language by how it's become trendy to adopt various British phrases and slang words of late.

[HoonDing]

Northumbria.

[Nonek]

The wife stills uses a few Yorkshire idioms now and then.

 

Owt = Anything.

Nowt = Nothing.

Example: Owt to lend?

Nowt!

 

Daft = Silly, moronic.

Banjo = Strike, punch.

Lamp = As Banjo.

Example: I'm gonna banjo that daft beggar!

E's not worth lamping.

 

Scrattin = Searching/gathering.

Shrapnel = Small coins.

Example: Owt to lend?

Sod off! I've been scrattin for shrapnel all week me'sen.

 

Snap = Meal, usually partaken of at work.

Scran = Any kind of food.

Example: Wot's she packed up for thee snap?

Nowt, 'ad a mountain o scran this morning.

 

I can't attest to the spelling.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Just guffaw constantly.

[NOK222]

Being British and from London I can help you. However you are being extraordinarily vague.

 

You just quoted some contemporary 'text-speak' for example. Slang from the UK is a big subject (Scotland and Northern Ireland have some extremely good slang, for example) and you need to narrow it down a bit. Do you want London rhyming slang? Some Irish traveller-influenced slang from Kent? West country rural slang? The fact that in Wiltshire a wood-louse is colloquially known as a 'Chucky Pig?'

 

Please elaborate and I shall provide.

 

Northern, where Northern? I can't say. 

[Monte Carlo]

Sorry? Was that aimed at Nonek's missus from t'land of ice and snow?

[Monte Carlo]

Sry, I think I get your drift now.

 

'Northern.'

 

Well, for me anywhere north of Trafalgar Square is northern but I'm a (south) Londoner.

 

North, technically, includes Manchester and Liverpool (has it's own specific slang), Yorks and Lancs (ditto), the Northwest (qv Withnail and I) and of course the Northeast (Geordies, Mackams and all that from Newcastle, Sunderland and Tyneside).

 

I once went for a drink with a bunch of Newcastle FC fans. The offered me some 'Geordie Tapas,' by which they meant potato chips. Ha ha ha ha.

[Malcador]

I now think of some Yorkshire hobo asking me I can spare some shrapnel.

[Monte Carlo]

Shrapnel is pan-British, widely used dahn sarrrffff.

[Raithe]

Remember, anyplace about half an hours travel north of the Watford Gap is sliding beyond civilised life and into the wilds of northern England... 

[Nepenthe]

I'm mostly worried if there is going to be anything left standing when I visit in 2 weeks.

[Monte Carlo]

It's pretty wet here at the moment. My neighbour floated off down the Thames yesterday. My house is still dry *crosses fingers*

[NOK222]

 

 

North, technically, includes Manchester and Liverpool (has it's own specific slang)

 

I think this is precisely the slang i'm looking for. 

[Monte Carlo]

Manchester and Liverpool has different slang.

 

For example, police in Liverpool are known as 'Bizzies' and people from Liverpool are known as Scousers. Deffo means definitely and Divvy is an idiot. I learnt this from (a) watching a soap opera set in Liverpool called Brookside and (b) working with one. Scousers are widely stereotyped as benefit-scrounging thieves. Their accents aren't accents, but in fact speech impediments. Here, try this on for size... http://thehouseofscouse.weebly.com/scouse-dictionaryslang.html

 

Mancs are a different kettle of fish. Despite being literally just down the road they sound completely bloody different and think they are the coolest people on earth. They have, admittedly, produced their fair share of awesome bands. The city is a dull testament to the efficacy of Prozac, built of dark red brick that sort of encloses you after ten minutes walking around the town centre. Slang - Dibble (police) madferit / upferit (mad for it / up for it as in going out) and keks are trousers. Hey, this is on the money. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/mancunian-sayings-guide-common-words-6465030

 

I know, I'm awesome.

[Zoraptor]

Shrapnel is pan-British, widely used dahn sarrrffff.

Not joking about the down south, shrapnel is used here as well and we're about as south as you get. No doubt another thing we've borrowed from the motherland.

[NOK222]

Manchester and Liverpool has different slang.

 

For example, police in Liverpool are known as 'Bizzies' and people from Liverpool are known as Scousers. Deffo means definitely and Divvy is an idiot. I learnt this from (a) watching a soap opera set in Liverpool called Brookside and (b) working with one. Scousers are widely stereotyped as benefit-scrounging thieves. Their accents aren't accents, but in fact speech impediments. Here, try this on for size... http://thehouseofscouse.weebly.com/scouse-dictionaryslang.html

 

Mancs are a different kettle of fish. Despite being literally just down the road they sound completely bloody different and think they are the coolest people on earth. They have, admittedly, produced their fair share of awesome bands. The city is a dull testament to the efficacy of Prozac, built of dark red brick that sort of encloses you after ten minutes walking around the town centre. Slang - Dibble (police) madferit / upferit (mad for it / up for it as in going out) and keks are trousers. Hey, this is on the money. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/mancunian-sayings-guide-common-words-6465030

 

I know, I'm awesome.

 

This is very helpful thanks. 

[Walsingham]

If you give us some idea of what kind of character you are trying to convey we would probably do a lot better. A complete rundown of all regional slang could take years.

[WDeranged]

The UK is filthy with dialects, I'll volunteer a couple of examples from Staffordshire.

 

"Ayup duck, ow-at?" - Hello Sir/Madam, how are you?

 

"Cans't kick a bo agin a wo an ed eet til eet bost youth?" - Can you kick a ball against a wall and head it until it bursts young man?

[AGX-17]

The UK is filthy with dialects, I'll volunteer a couple of examples from Staffordshire.

 

"Ayup duck, ow-at?" - Hello Sir/Madam, how are you?

 

"Cans't kick a bo agin a wo an ed eet til eet bost youth?" - Can you kick a ball against a wall and head it until it bursts young man?

It's amazing how much guff Americans get for their (our) English when the Britons themselves can have such a worse grasp of their own language.

Edited February 14, 2014 by AGX-17