Examples Of Your Local Dialect

[FifeRover]

I thought it might be fun if we were to share a few words of our own local dialect with each other just so we can all share the richness of the language and how it can vary from place to place. Here's some words commonly heard in Fife, Scotland and their English equivalent.
ben = through
hoose = house
bunker = worktop
glaikit = stupid
baffies = slippers
brae = hill
cannae = cannot
scunnered = bothered
blethering = talking nonsense
ken = know
bouffing oxters = sweaty underarms
stoating = drunk
hirpling = limping

Now it's your turn to let your own voice shine through

 

[Heart of a Seeker]

Those are cool! Here we have the "dis, dat, dem, dose, dere" - which is this, that, them, those, there, of course. Other than that, most of what we say here is what most others in the states say, with a different accent.

 

[candleflame]

I'm sure I could think of some but i need more of a brain than is there at this time of the day. Well done Fife - you are more awake than me!!! will try again another day.

One thing springs to mind before sleep....

Whist lads had your gobs I'll tell yaz aall an aarful storie.
translated - now then gentlemen please stop talking and i will tell you a terrible tale!!

 

[Heart of a Seeker]

Groovy

 

[MN John]

We leave the object off of the participle "with"

For example:
Mother: If you're going to the store then, be sure to take your little brother with.
Litte Brother: Yes, I want to go with to the store!
Big brother: You bet!

 

[FifeRover]

I'm sure I could think of some but i need more of a brain than is there at this time of the day. Well done Fife - you are more awake than me!!! will try again another day.

One thing springs to mind before sleep....

Whist lads had your gobs I'll tell yaz aall an aarful storie.
translated - now then gentlemen please stop talking and i will tell you a terrible tale!!

Jings, crivens, and help ma boab, a'm au' afeart noo at whit dreadful tale ye're gaun tae tell aes
(oh goodness me, I'm all atremble with fear at what dreadful tale you are going to tell us)
This is silly but fun

 

[MMXII]

Ya'll = You all.
Pert near = Pretty near.
Dreckly = Directly, soon.
Unch = a little bit.
Chucker = Somewhere under your neck that tickles.
Axe (ok, I don't use this) = Ask.
Fixin' = Getting ready to do something.
Sugar = Kiss.

I'm sure I can come up with more.

 

[FifeRover]

Ya'll = You all.
Pert near = Pretty near.
Dreckly = Directly, soon.
Unch = a little bit.
Chucker = Somewhere under your neck that tickles.
Axe (ok, I don't use this) = Ask.
Fixin' = Getting ready to do something.
Sugar = Kiss.

I'm sure I can come up with more.

I really like Unch, what a great word
I've just thought of a couple of classic examples of the Fife dialect that make me smile

"Your sinning doctor" = your son and daughter
"d'ye ken Ken? Ken?" = do you know Kenneth? I wonder?"

 

[MMXII]

Actually "unch" is a homemade word.

 

[FifeRover]

Actually "unch" is a homemade word.

lol, it still sounds great though
Do you have any words for types of weather other than the standard ones? I love the Scottish word for when it's grey, dull, overcast and threatening to rain, we call ir dreich (pronounced dreek) and a thick mist rolling in from the sea is a haar. A light rain is a smirl and heavy snow in Fife is known as once in a blue moon

 

[MMXII]

The only one I can think of is Nor'easter for a storm coming up from the south. They, for me in Delaware, are usually more powerful than the residuals we get from hurricanes.

 

[Heart of a Seeker]

Ya'll = You all.
Pert near = Pretty near.
Dreckly = Directly, soon.
Unch = a little bit.
Chucker = Somewhere under your neck that tickles.
Axe (ok, I don't use this) = Ask.
Fixin' = Getting ready to do something.
Sugar = Kiss.

I'm sure I can come up with more.

This is the way my mom talked! She was from West Virginia - except the axe thing.

 

[Tumbleweed64]

Well growing up in Wyoming and then moving to Michigan, I can come up with a few I think...

I "Reckon" = I suppose so...
"Fittin to" = Getting ready to...
And having grown up in Wyo I have noticed that I tend to drop the "G" off the end of my words!
Then there's the whole "Sodapop" deal! I'd always known it as "soda" but when I moved here everyone calls it "pop"

 

[GritsnGrace]

A light rain is a smirl and heavy snow in Fife is known as once in a blue moon

That would be here, too!!

I could probably come up with a LOT of southern lingoisms. For instance.....
jeetyet........did you eat yet?

 

[Tumbleweed64]

That would be here, too!!

I could probably come up with a LOT of southern lingoisms. For instance.....
jeetyet........did you eat yet?

sounds like something Jeff Foxworthy would say!

 

[GritsnGrace]

sounds like something Jeff Foxworthy would say!

lol! Yeah, we have a LOT of rednecks around here!!

 

[Tumbleweed64]

Oddly enough, we do around here as well, apparently we have a lot of "kentucky-born" folk~ but what I found really funny is the last time I talked to my Mom, she said I sounded different!

 

[If Not For Grace]

we have a LOT of rednecks around here!!

And I am One of them...^(To a real Southerner that is not an insult)

We also like

mammanem (Momma and them) Greeting

Horsefeathers (Swearword some prefer bulls)

Bless Your Heart (Go Away Stupid)

Fittin (for us is usually a piece that joins pipe)

1st cousin Once Removed (Maternal)

tote (Carry)

Brangus (Bring us)

Geeminilli (Exclamation) (Like Oh my word!)

We also say "have mercy" whenever we hear bad news or good gossip.

See Ya'll..

 

[GritsnGrace]

And I am One of them...^(To a real Southerner that is not an insult)

We also like

mammanem (Momma and them) Greeting

Horsefeathers (Swearword some prefer bulls)

Bless Your Heart (Go Away Stupid)

Fittin (for us is usually a piece that joins pipe)

1st cousin Once Removed (Maternal)

tote (Carry)

Brangus (Bring us)

Geeminilli (Exclamation) (Like Oh my word!)

We also say "have mercy" whenever we hear bad news or good gossip.

See Ya'll..

No, it isn't an insult at all!!

 

[NorwayUnn]

How about this one?

''hærta ta hørt'' (dialect from East Norway, and pronounced ''harta ta hewrt''),

and it means ''half of each'', but in ''proper'' Norwegian it is spelled ''halvparten av hver''. We have many funny dialects in li'l Norway.