Scylla's British/American speech exchange!

[Mary Kay]

Posted by Starlight! Thanks Miz Light.
There's Effingpot - "The American's guide to speaking British."
Peevish is a dictionary of British slang. It's not really slang, more colloquialisms.
Try WhooHoo for "translating" different Enlgish accents in text. Quite funny!
If you really want, you can learn Cockney Rhyming Slang and translate into Cockney Rhyming Slang.
The Dialectizer will convert English text into comic dialects.

This is Scylla's idea and I agree, it sounds like fun!
Here's the idea, we exchange words and sayings from our part of World or area. It doesn't have to be British or American! My favorite word is ishta or ishka or just ish, my friend from Minn. said it all the time..Swedish I think. I am prolly spelling it wrong..did I mention she said it not wrote it down? LOL
Common things like to throw something in the trash..is different block to block in the states! Pitch it, toss it can it, bin it, ect.

My Family is mostly from Fl. by way of Ga.(1850's) N.Carolina(1790's) and the U.K. and Scotland.
The old folks had a few phases I haven't heard a lot of people say like:
If someone had a mental illness then it was referred to as a "spell"
As in She was having one of her spells, ya'know.
If a guy was a no account then she was well shut of him!
We have pot liker after a dinner of Collard greens. We sop it up with cornbread. (Pot Liquor is the liquid left at the botton of the collard pot)
Ok it's your turn!

 

[Mary Kay]

Oi Cas, right, Is me speech any better? I 'ope yer understand this. I'll get out me spoons. I fink I may need more practice..

I used Starlight's Dialectizer ..that was fun!

 

[Grandma Cas]

Oi Cas, right, Is me speech any better? I 'ope yer understand this. I'll get out me spoons. I fink I may need more practice..

I used Starlight's Dialectizer ..that was fun!

gawd, blind 'ol riley, I fink she's got it next time ya darn our way I'll take ya darn the ol' frog for a pigs. not sure about the spoons though

 

[Mary Kay]

gawd, blind 'ol riley, ah fink she's got it next time ya dadburn our way I'll take ya dadburn th' ol' frog fo' a pigs. not sho'nuff about th' spoons though
Cas iIran your answer thru again, kind of hope to translate it..but no American English..so I tried red neck! I think I broke the machine...lol!

 

[Grandma Cas]

gawd, blind 'ol riley, ah fink she's got it next time ya dadburn our way I'll take ya dadburn th' ol' frog fo' a pigs. not sho'nuff about th' spoons though
Cas iIran your answer thru again, kind of hope to translate it..but no American English..so I tried red neck! I think I broke the machine...lol!

ROFLMAO

Ok, "gawd, blind 'ol riley"[means OMG ] I think she has got it. Next time you are nearby I will take you down the road for a beer." Still not sure about the 'spoons'...

btw... I ran the plain english through & the cockney it came up with was rubbish...

 

[Grandma Cas]

Marykay, I'm goin' up the wooden 'ill to bedfordshire now. Rabbit soon me ol' china...

 

[Wolf]

Well I haven't had a chance to check out the translators, but doesn't spoons refer to playing music?

 

[medic23]

LOL I think your right my grandpa played spoons all the time!

 

[Mary Kay]

Wolf and Medic, I searched and searched..no reason for the spoon thing to have showed up in the reply. As cas said it does funny things to your words! I thought they were talking about playing the spoons too.
All I asked it to do was translate, Cas, is my speech any better? I think I need to practice. Weird!
Wolf, I think I welcomed you, but I missed Medic!
Kick back and stay a while.

 

[Mary Kay]

When you get a drink from a water fountain..what do you call it?
What IS an Egg cream?
Do you say Gals or Girls?
Do you know what a schottische is?

 

[Wildsky]

When you get a drink from a water fountain..what do you call it?
What IS an Egg cream?
Do you say Gals or Girls?
Do you know what a schottische is?

where I'm from there are no water fountains, the water out the tap is just fine to drink! LOL

No idea on the egg cream. I actually say Gals alot. No clue on Schottische.

 

[Mary Kay]

Wildsky! No water fountains..on the Nebraska plains? Fancy that!
After one or two more try to answer I'll tell you the answers..hey no fair looking them up!

Cas, Grandma CasMarykay, I'm goin' up the wooden 'ill to bedfordshire now. Rabbit soon me ol' china...
I am going upstairs to bed now. Talk soon, Mate.
Wooden hill= stairs bedfordsire =bed Rabbit=talk China plate= mate.

I guess I need to send some weird speech your way!

Where is Scylla? This is for her after all.

 

[Grandma Cas]

Wildsky! No water fountains..on the Nebraska plains? Fancy that!
After one or two more try to answer I'll tell you the answers..hey no fair looking them up!

Cas, I'm goin' up the wooden 'ill to bedfordshire now. Rabbit soon me ol' china...
I am going upstairs to bed now. Talk soon, Mate.
Wooden hill= stairs bedfordsire =bed Rabbit=talk China plate= mate.

I guess I need to send some weird speech your way!

Where is Scylla? This is for her after all.

Oh My Gawd!! we'll 'ave you sewing on pearl buttons & doing a knees up if you're not careful

Do you know what a schottische is?

umm...err... is it a term that refers to people who are from Scotland? They speak scottish so, I'm thinking it might be an alternative spelling

Ok... my turn... what do you think 'bar tat' means?

 

[brunhilde]

Lor' luv a duck! I'm wasted an' think winnie da pooh all are funny no matter 'ow i' is translted! Know what I mean?

 

[Mary Kay]

When you get a drink from a water fountain..what do you call it?
What IS an Egg cream?
Do you say Gals or Girls?
Do you know what a schottische is?

Some people call a water fountain a cooler or a bubbler..North, like Wisconsin I think..of course all you are North of me! Except those in the Miami area..lol


A new York treat!
An Egg Cream

Ingredients

1/2 cup milk
1 12oz soda glass (like an old coke glass)
1/4 cup seltzer
3/4 inch of chocolate syrup

1. Pour milk into a tall, chilled glass. Shoot in the seltzer real hard until a white head reaches the top of the glass.
2. Pour in the syrup very slowly. Gradually stir it on the bottom so as not to disturb the couple of inches of foam on the top. When you pull the spoon out you will have a dark chocolate bottom and a pure white foamy top. Adjust the amount of chocolate depending on the sweetness you want.

Gal or girl depends on your area of the Country, In St. Lousis Mo. They say gal.

Schottische is a type of polka dance. It means butterfly in Swedeish. They call it that because you and your partner hold left hand to left and right hand to right in front of you while both people face forward. It forms a sort of butterfly. If any of you had been from Sweden or Minnisoota. you would have know that one!
I loved the guess about it being an odd way to pronounce Scottish! My Grandpa McKinnon would have loved that!

 

[Mary Kay]

Cas, if a pound is called a bar and a Tat is short for tatty..worn or shody. Would a bar tat be worn out money or maybe fake money? How about a barfly? In your case a Bar Rat!
Knees up..dancing! Got lost on the pearl buttons. I will guess dressed up?

brunhilde..What part of England are you in today!! LOL
I am thinking Winnie the pooh =You. I am going to have to go read and try to find out what tthe heck you are on about.
Nope..I looked and looked. Wasted is drunk..or tipsy or even hurt..like you fell down and bruised something.
Winnie the Pooh..nothing I could find.
You got me! Cas? Scylla? Somebody?

 

[Caesarea]

Cas, if a pound is called a bar and a Tat is short for tatty..worn or shody. Would a bar tat be worn out money or maybe fake money? How about a barfly? In your case a Bar Rat!
Knees up..dancing! Got lost on the pearl buttons. I will guess dressed up?

brunhilde..What part of England are you in today!! LOL
I am thinking Winnie the pooh =You. I am going to have to go read and try to find out what tthe heck you are on about.
Nope..I looked and looked. Wasted is drunk..or tipsy or even hurt..like you fell down and bruised something.
Winnie the Pooh..nothing I could find.
You got me! Cas? Scylla? Somebody?

Well, I'm gonna duck out on the translating!! Grandma Cas is the world authority on all this as far as I'm concerned!!!



Happy Friday!!!

C.

P.S.
Have you been Outside to read Logan's naughty post on British culture. 'Fraid I laughed till I cried...

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/outside/18517-insults-give-your-best-shot-18.html#post312271


Tssk tssk must get a grip on the day's work now.

C.

 

[Starlight]

Glad you're all having fun with it, even if some of the translations aren't quite spot on!

We generally say "Girls" although we occasionally use "gals" too.

 

[Grandma Cas]

Cas, if a pound is called a bar and a Tat is short for tatty..worn or shody. Would a bar tat be worn out money or maybe fake money? How about a barfly? In your case a Bar Rat!
Knees up..dancing! Got lost on the pearl buttons. I will guess dressed up?

Gotcha, but, it was naughty really 'cause it might be a bit obscure to anyone outside of Yorkshire.

Bar Tat= without your hat as in the folk song 'On Ilkley Moor bar tat'... there are several ways of spelling it so, I might have got it a bit wrong

Knees Up= is dancing so, you got that

The pearl buttons are a reference to The Pearly Kings and Queens. They aren't necessarily Cockneys but have alway been associated with them, the Pearly society was started in about 1875 by Henry Croft. Born and raised in an orphanage he became a sweeper at Somers Town Market.

One version of events says that he decided to raise money for charity and to attract attention to himself he sewed buttons on to his hat and then his suit... buttons he found as he swept the street.

He ended up being very much in demand for his charity work and so asked some of the costermongers from the market to help him. That's how the first Pearly families started.

There were 28 families; 1 for each of the London Boroughs and 1 each for the City of London and the City of Westminster.

It's still primarily a charitable organisation. The designs and the sewing are done by the Kings and Queens themselves. Here's a photo

 

[scyllabub]

Hi there girls, what a time of it you've been having

I don't know nert (Cornish for nothing) about Cockney rhyming slang - my Irish dad used to send me up the apples and pears (stairs) to bed but I didn't know it was Cockney until years later.

Talking of Irish, I only know the blimey bit out of "Blimey O'Reilly" = "blind me!", an expression of surprise.

Plates = plates of meat = feet.

Cas may have covered those already, never mind, I feel bad Mary Kay made the effort and I didn't join in. I can hardly type at the moment I'm so hot and wet (yuk), Mary can't you start a menopause thread? 8-o

I think joining ECF may have been a step too far, it's huge, you need to have wits to keep up with it and mine are bugga'd

scylla x