to the non-British, has the BKP forums affected your vocabulary?

[CaptainDesslock]

I just found this rather quirky,

From my time scoping about the British "custom instruments/pickups" scene my daily vocabulary has seem some slight additions that I didn't use before:

"that new custom guitar is ace!"

"that was bloody $%&#ed up"

"alright cheers!"

and

"wow, i finally know what a quid is!"

Just curious of any other nationals had picked up a few words from this boards, as I've never seen any americans use any of the above in the context that the British use.

[Ratrod]

Sure I have expanded my vocabulary a bit.

But I already was pretty adept in the English lingo, including 'street' lingo.

[hamfist]

I don't know about the non-British, but I'm continually picking up phrases and words I have certainly never heard before from my compatriots up north. Sometimes I think they almost speak a different language !!  :lol:

[Dmoney]

regional dialect is pyar boss lid. get yer taigs out, don't be arl arse!

[MDV]

Some brits speak non-british

I have to deal with this on a daily basis.

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

(No, I dont speak with a cumbrian accent myself, though some of the dialectic has snuck in, people still think I'm american/south african/australian/canadian, for some reason)

[Dr. Vic]

I was expecting more non-british to come here  :lol:

As for me, I have to say I learnt a lot here but......well, learning "street lingo" is quite a never ending story here, this place is full of *fresh* posts everyday. And if now we also have to consider cumbrians, well... oh no !!  :lol:

Anyway I put some of my favorite posts here :

http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=16947.0

[Johnny Mac]

Some brits speak non-british

I have to deal with this on a daily basis.

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

(No, I dont speak with a cumbrian accent myself, though some of the dialectic has snuck in, people still think I'm american/south african/australian/canadian, for some reason)

I had an Aussie mate who used to live in Penrith. He loved it, he was always talking about how he couldn't understand what his workmates were talking about. I went to his wedding up there and I couldn't understand them either. I bought a postcard there, which was a photo of a hand made sign in a country lane, which said "Tek care lambs ont road"

[Dr. Vic]

I bought a postcard there, which was a photo of a hand made sign in a country lane, which said "Tek care lambs ont road"

Quite another new *weird* langage  :lol:

The only one place where I could have expect finding that kind of sign would have been in Ireland, because the lambs ARE ALWAYS on the roads, but I don't remember having read such a usefull forewarn sign during my Irish trip (maybe because it was written in another dialect :lol:).

[Muttley]

Non-UK natives may find the following useful for translating some of our weirder slang terms: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom :D

[HTH AMPS]

Non-UK natives may find the following useful for translating some of our weirder slang terms: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom :D

they missed out two of my favourites...

* ass-muncher
* c--k-polisher

my momma is SO proud  :lol:

[FernandoDuarte]

I'm not sure if I've, but I hope so...

[Roobubba]

Some brits speak non-british

I have to deal with this on a daily basis.

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

(No, I dont speak with a cumbrian accent myself, though some of the dialectic has snuck in, people still think I'm american/south african/australian/canadian, for some reason)

Tsk Tsk, MDV! With non-words such as 'snuck' appearing there, I'm not surprised that people think you're American!! Just one of the horrible Americanisms that riles me with scarily high frequency. :)

Roo

[WezV]

Bitham is a common insult around here... as in when someone does something really stupid you call them a bitham - i still like it a lot.  The local special school is on Bitham lane and used to be called Bitham school... untill it became a local insult

also, when i first went to uni no-one had a clue what i meant when i said mardy  - i didnt know it was a local thing.   i guess artic monkeys changed that and tried to make it northern

[indysmith]

AC/DC     Adj. Bisexual.

Haha I'm going to have fun inferring an alternative meaning next time that one comes up on here :P

[AndyR]

AC/DC     Adj. Bisexual.

Haha I'm going to have fun inferring an alternative meaning next time that one comes up on here :P

:lol: It mean that in the UK long before Bon and the boys arrived - I'd always assumed they chose the name fully aware of that meaning? It's certainly what it meant to us pommie boys when this "Aussie punk band" called AC/DC appeared...