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What Briticism does your head in?

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  • #32
    The Backwards Man
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    Bob Hoskins will never be dead


  • #33
    Smidge
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    God, its like I've wandered into a really bad episode of Steptoe and son :eek:


  • #34
    LordSutch
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    I say Jeeves old boy, be a good chap and warm my slippers beside the fire while I lite my pipe . . . .


  • #35
    Harry Palmr
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    Innit?


  • #36
    Fred Swanson
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    This post has been deleted.


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
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    These are all peculiar to the English, not all Britons, just to be picky. And I've never heard anyone besides Danny Dyer say most of them.

    I'm a Brit btw.


  • #38
    Grandeeod
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    I think we should put this thread in the press...sorry, I meant cupboard.


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
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    Grandeeod wrote: »
    I think we should put this thread in the press...sorry, I meant cupboard.

    With the messages, and the pan.


  • #40
    OiL RiG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 ✭OiL RiG


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    OP is a facking cant

    'Facking cant' sounds more Australian to my ear.

    Personally, I enjoy Briticisms. They're so mellifluous, like 'sod off.' Delightful!


  • #41
    Aidric
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    Sue Barker's soggy tits.


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  • #42
    LordSutch
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    Grandeeod wrote: »
    I think we should put this thread in the press...sorry, I meant cupboard.

    ... Hinerno English is of course a whole other subject :)


  • #43
    Crimsonforce
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    You slaaaaaaaaaaaggggggg


  • #44
    Paramite Pie
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    Sambo.

    *cringe*

    I've actually started hearing some Irish people saying it recently. I've seen it on boards too but I hope they were using it for a laugh. Clearly someones watching too much Coronation St.

    Otherwise I quite like a lot of Briticisms.:)


  • #45
    Smidge
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    Candie wrote: »
    With the messages, and the pan.

    To be fair this one has a point :D

    Its like when told to get a towel from the airing cupboard and vice versa when I used hotpress to my English pals. I like the differences(the slang Im not terribly fond of but that goes for any dialect for me, I'm a purist like that :D)


  • #46
    buried
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    Candie wrote: »
    These are all peculiar to the English, not all Britons, just to be picky. And I've never heard anyone besides Danny Dyer say most of them.

    I'm a Brit btw.

    Imitation is the highest form of flattery, innit?

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • #47
    NotYourYear20
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    'Bird' as in 'his bird'

    Unfortunately its use has become endemic back in Ireland.:(


  • #48
    mikemac1
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    Paramite Pie wrote: »
    Sambo.

    *cringe*

    I've actually started hearing some Irish people saying it recently. I've seen it on boards too but I hope they were using it for a laugh. Clearly someones watching too much Coronation St.

    Brennans bread have ads on bus shelters around Dublin last year about having a sambo


  • #49
    Robsweezie
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    daddy = daddeh
    morning = mawnin
    off license = offeh


  • #50
    WesternZulu
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    Twat.

    Just sounds awful in anything but an English accent.


  • #51
    mikemac1
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    Rock shandy, glass of red lemonade and two bags of tayto please

    You wot mate? says the barman :(


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  • #52
    LordSutch
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    Paramite Pie wrote: »
    Sambo.

    *cringe*

    I've actually started hearing some Irish people saying it recently. I've seen it on boards too but I hope they were using it for a laugh. Clearly someones watching too much Coronation St.

    Otherwise I quite like a lot of Briticisms.:)

    Nobody would dare use the racist term "Sambo" in Britain!

    ...they did in the 60s though.


  • #53
    macnug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭macnug


    Asking "yea?" At the end of every sentence.


  • #54
    MadsL
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    Keep Calm and Chive On.


    grrrr.....


  • #55
    heldel00
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    English friend says "to be fair" at the end of every bloody statement she makes regardless of whether or not it makes sense!


  • #56
    KungPao
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    OiL RiG wrote: »
    'Facking cant' sounds more Australian to my ear.

    Personally, I enjoy Briticisms. They're so mellifluous, like 'sod off.' Delightful!
    Sod off! Love it.

    'Bugger off' is a good 'un 'n all.

    Bladdy 'ell!


  • #57
    Eugene Norman
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    Sambo ain't British.


  • #58
    welchywelch
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 37 ✭welchywelch


    Banter or bants does my head in. Its CRAIC


  • #59
    Herb Powell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    eqwjewoiujqorj wrote: »
    A lot of British phrases are fastly creeping into Irish vernacular more and more.

    "High Street" instead of Main Street

    "Mum" / "Mummy" instead of the good old Irish "Mam" / "Mammy" / "Ma"
    Is there anything more English sounding than Mum?

    "Bollocks" - Used so much by the Irish now that they probably think it's Irish.
    As British as Yorkshire pudding.


    What Briticisms does your head in?

    Bollocks is one of the greatest words in the English language, or indeed any language.


  • #60
    diusmr8a504cvk
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    How has nobody mentioned "The Loo"?


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  • #61
    The Backwards Man
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    Herb Powell wrote: »
    Bollocks is one of the greatest words in the English language, or indeed any language.
    It's Teutonic anyway, not British.

    Not a lot of people know that.


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