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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2014 18:38:16 GMT -1
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-28038529Ach, good on her! Looks like she and her hubby are quite an em..colourful couple! Ms R has been modelling wedding dresses for a magazine lately and was utterly taken aback at some of the flouncy (awful!) confections that cost anything from 3,000-5000 quid!!! Apparently the average cost of a wedding is now about £22,000. That is MAD, shirley--about the same as the deposit on an average home! I often wonder if young couples with high expectations of starting married life with the best of everything via their Wedding list (grrr!) get any satisfaction at all from earning and buying their own things? Or if expensive weddings guarantee lifelong happiness?
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Post by notanimby on Jun 29, 2014 19:43:49 GMT -1
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-28038529Ach, good on her! Looks like she and her hubby are quite an em..colourful couple! Ms R has been modelling wedding dresses for a magazine lately and was utterly taken aback at some of the flouncy (awful!) confections that cost anything from 3,000-5000 quid!!! Apparently the average cost of a wedding is now about £22,000. That is MAD, shirley--about the same as the deposit on an average home! I often wonder if young couples with high expectations of starting married life with the best of everything via their Wedding list (grrr!) get any satisfaction at all from earning and buying their own things? Or if expensive weddings guarantee lifelong happiness? Nothing to do with the fact that Aberdeen folk are known for their, ahem, thriftiness.........
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Post by peony on Jul 9, 2014 13:29:25 GMT -1
As an aside, once in the Houston airport, I saw a ticket agent ask a person from Aberdeen to write what she was saying cause she couldn't understand the accent. I only know it was Aberdeen cause the agent said, "Ah, Aberdeen".
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Post by notanimby on Jul 9, 2014 15:30:19 GMT -1
As an aside, once in the Houston airport, I saw a ticket agent ask a person from Aberdeen to write what she was saying cause she couldn't understand the accent. I only know it was Aberdeen cause the agent said, "Ah, Aberdeen". Their dialect is known as Doric, Aberdeen is known as Furry Boots City in Scotland, this comes from the citizens, when speaking Doric ask people Furry boots ur ye frae? This translates as Wherabouts do you come from? Males are called loons Females are known as Quines
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Post by ozneil on Jul 9, 2014 20:23:15 GMT -1
My mum's family spoke Lallands. They were farmers in South Lanarkshire round East Kilbride and Darvel in Ayrshire. Its strange that in such a small country there are so many different dialects. In Glasgow there are 2 or 3 alone. The West End one been called Kelvinsaide. Where a creche is a car accident on Byers Road and Sex is a hessian bag for cattying in the coal.
Mind you ours is as bad.. I pity the foreigner who had to try and make sense of this traffic announcement. "There's been a bingle East bound on the M4 and she's chockers suggest you give it a miss"
My introduction to weejie was at Euston Station in London when a wee nyaf came up to me and said "goatratimejummy?" luckily he pointed to his wrist and I got the idea. Luckily it wasnt the toilet he was asking way to or I may have decked him
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Post by notanimby on Jul 10, 2014 4:52:22 GMT -1
My mum's family spoke Lallands. They were farmers in South Lanarkshire round East Kilbride and Darvel in Ayrshire. Its strange that in such a small country there are so many different dialects. In Glasgow there are 2 or 3 alone. The West End one been called Kelvinsaide. Where a creche is a car accident on Byers Road and Sex is a hessian bag for cattying in the coal. Mind you ours is as bad.. I pity the foreigner who had to try and make sense of this traffic announcement. "There's been a bingle East bound on the M4 and she's chockers suggest you give it a miss" My introduction to weejie was at Euston Station in London when a wee nyaf came up to me and said "goatratimejummy?" luckily he pointed to his wrist and I got the idea. Luckily it wasnt the toilet he was asking way to or I may have decked him a peculiar trait of scottish people all over, is to indicate their wrist when asking if you have the time - even to other scottish people "cattying" - that's a new one on me though
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Post by ozneil on Jul 10, 2014 21:14:17 GMT -1
:|Misplaced "R" chair placed slightly too far to right
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Post by celyn on Jul 11, 2014 20:00:05 GMT -1
... "There's been a bingle East bound on the M4 and she's chockers suggest you give it a miss"... A "bingle" is a car crash? But the trouble is that 'bingle' sounds like a nice and jolly thing, not a screechy metal and blood and death thing. Cute word, though. We would understand "chockers" as a variant of "chock-a-block". And now, the Evil Useless Information Demon wants me to wonder about the origin of "chock-a-block". Oh well.
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Post by ozneil on Jul 11, 2014 21:27:49 GMT -1
... "There's been a bingle East bound on the M4 and she's chockers suggest you give it a miss"... A "bingle" is a car crash? But the trouble is that 'bingle' sounds like a nice and jolly thing, not a screechy metal and blood and death thing. Cute word, though. We would understand "chockers" as a variant of "chock-a-block". And now, the Evil Useless Information Demon wants me to wonder about the origin of "chock-a-block". Oh well. Yes Oz slang is weird comes from all sorts of languages Spot on! A minor bump in a car is a "ding" as in "I dinged the car last night had a bit of a bingle with a Marrickville Mercedes" A Marrickville Mercedes is an old Chrysler Valiant a large car very popular with the ethnics who have large families and live in Marrickvrille no Idea where Chock-a-block comes from unless Cadburys but that does not commute
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Post by ozneil on Jul 11, 2014 22:37:32 GMT -1
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Post by celyn on Jul 14, 2014 0:46:49 GMT -1
... Spot on! A minor bump in a car is a "ding" as in "I dinged the car last night had a bit of a bingle with a Marrickville Mercedes" A Marrickville Mercedes is an old Chrysler Valiant a large car very popular with the ethnics who have large families and live in Marrickvrille no Idea where Chock-a-block comes from unless Cadburys but that does not commute Re. " Spot on", that sounds as though I made a really inspired guess, but I have to confess that I simply Googled.
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Post by celyn on Jul 14, 2014 0:59:44 GMT -1
As an aside, once in the Houston airport, I saw a ticket agent ask a person from Aberdeen to write what she was saying cause she couldn't understand the accent. I only know it was Aberdeen cause the agent said, "Ah, Aberdeen". Heheh. I have visions of the passenger saying "aye, it's Aiberdeen, y'ken". Once, in London, realising that I might as well have my optician records moved from St. Andrews to a branch in London, well, the London person 'phoned up the St. Andrews one to sort it out, and it quickly became clear that she wasn't understanding the St. Andrews person. And I shouldn't think the St. Andrews person would be having much fun with this woman's broad London accent either. (Oh, and the last address the optician held for me was in Wales, so I suppose both of them had trouble with that.) In the end, I asked the London one to hand me the 'phone and let me talk to the St. Andrews one. And the distance involved doesn't, of course, come anywhere near the distance between Houston in Texas and Aberdeen. I think it gets troublesome when some people don't even think of trying to moderate an accent if it is causing problems. N.B., I am not suggesting changing accents or getting rid of them as a general thing at all, no: I mean that in situations like the my optician one, and Peony's Aberdeen lady, people ought to be aware that an effort to speak as clearly as possible would help. Thanks be to all the gods for e-mail.
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Post by celyn on Jul 14, 2014 1:33:15 GMT -1
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Post by ozneil on Jul 14, 2014 7:14:09 GMT -1
as One of my English masters used to say when some poor kid mangled the language "English as she is spoke" He was also a dead shot with a blackboard duster. If your attention wavered for a second you wouldnt see coming in time to duck
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 20:14:10 GMT -1
As an aside, once in the Houston airport, I saw a ticket agent ask a person from Aberdeen to write what she was saying cause she couldn't understand the accent. I only know it was Aberdeen cause the agent said, "Ah, Aberdeen". Heheh. I have visions of the passenger saying "aye, it's Aiberdeen, y'ken". Once, in London, realising that I might as well have my optician records moved from St. Andrews to a branch in London, well, the London person 'phoned up the St. Andrews one to sort it out, and it quickly became clear that she wasn't understanding the St. Andrews person. And I shouldn't think the St. Andrews person would be having much fun with this woman's broad London accent either. (Oh, and the last address the optician held for me was in Wales, so I suppose both of them had trouble with that.) In the end, I asked the London one to hand me the 'phone and let me talk to the St. Andrews one. And the distance involved doesn't, of course, come anywhere near the distance between Houston in Texas and Aberdeen. I think it gets troublesome when some people don't even think of trying to moderate an accent if it is causing problems. N.B., I am not suggesting changing accents or getting rid of them as a general thing at all, no: I mean that in situations like the my optician one, and Peony's Aberdeen lady, people ought to be aware that an effort to speak as clearly as possible would help. Thanks be to all the gods for e-mail. The Fife accent is something else, along with Aberdonian and Shetland-ese..I find myself picking out the odd word or three and trying to make sense of the sentence, a bit like those quiz games on tv where letters get blanked out and you have to take a f*ying g*e*s.... Respect to the 200+ Polish workers who arrived on the T in the Park site the other day though. (It's my job to make sure everyone working on the site gets to where they need to be to ensure the smooth running of the shebang..) So anyways, on arrival everyone has to give their name to pick up their pre-arranged passes. The Polish contingent know only too well how utterly crap the UKE is at foreign languages so instead of taking the piss out of us they simply present their passports on arrival, for which we're eternally grateful.. These amazing guys work 12 hour shifts overnight, clearing up the arena for the next day. (British people don't want the job, they think it's beneath them.)
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