What Briticism does your head in?

Your Superior · 03-07-2015 09:27PM

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.:)

We don't use sambo in Britain. It's a racist term referring to black people. It's Ireland that uses sambo. You seem a little confused.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 03-07-2015 09:30PM

By jingo.

WesternZulu · 03-07-2015 09:31PM

'Fleg' is one particular Briticism that does my head in :pac:

buried · 03-07-2015 09:31PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

It's Teutonic anyway, not British.

Not a lot of people know that.

Bloody gerry's

George White · 03-07-2015 09:35PM

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.:)

isn't it sarnie in UK?
Sambo is racist talk.

Your Superior · 03-07-2015 09:36PM

WesternZulu wrote: »

'Fleg' is one particular Briticism that does my head in :pac:

Fleg isn't British, its northern Irish.

SEPT 23 1989 · 03-07-2015 09:37PM

'alright fella':mad:

The Backwards Man · 03-07-2015 09:37PM

George White wrote: »

isn't it sarnie in UK?
Sambo is racist talk.

Down south, up north it's a butty, in Scotland (and Donegal) it's a piece.

OiL RiG · 03-07-2015 09:37PM

Your Superior wrote: »

We don't use sambo in Britain. It's a racist term referring to black people. It's Ireland that uses sambo. You seem a little confused.

Without context, I was almost sure that sambo was slang for sandwich. Potential cross-cultural disaster averted.

Lenin Skynard · 03-07-2015 09:38PM

The big one is "mate". The English speaking world seems to be divided into countries where it's used and countries where it's not. We were always one of the latter and that was fine by me. But it has crept in, it seemed like just Dublin but I'm hearing it more and more from non-Dubs.

It seems to be used in an aggressive way in Ireland more often than not. Like: "Sorry, there's a queue here, mate".

It just doesn't sound right in an Irish accent.

03-07-2015 09:43PM

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Lenin Skynard wrote: »

The big one is "mate". The English speaking world seems to be divided into countries where it's used and countries where it's not. We were always one of the latter and that was fine by me. But it has crept in, it seemed like just Dublin but I'm hearing it more and more from non-Dubs.

It seems to be used in an aggressive way in Ireland more often than not. Like: "Sorry, there's a queue here, mate".

It just doesn't sound right in an Irish accent.

This, a million times.

03-07-2015 09:45PM

Words I say in my most perfick, Peckham accent....

Sarnie
Sod off
You're avin a laugh, int ya
For ****s sake
Mum
Millwall lost again

PARlance · 03-07-2015 09:46PM

eqwjewoiujqorj wrote: »

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

Mam... An Irish Mammy or The Queen Mother

An Claidheamh · 03-07-2015 09:46PM

Mint Sauce wrote: »

That it seems cool to slag the British.

If this was the other way round, you'd be telling people they have an inferiority complex or can't take a joke or to get over themselves.

So relax, there was an American version previously.

However, "blokes" is one that makes me cringe when Irish people say it, or "the Beeb" for BBC.

guppy · 03-07-2015 09:47PM

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

You're avin a laugh, int ya

You avin a bubble?

Bannasidhe · 03-07-2015 09:49PM

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Words I say in my most perfick, Peckham accent....

Ohhh I dunno... sarf Lundun sowoffink innit :eek:

George White · 03-07-2015 09:51PM

PARlance wrote: »

Mam... An Irish Mammy or The Queen Mother

Mam itself is common in North England. But that's the accent.

jamesbere · 03-07-2015 09:52PM

One is quite amused with all these peasant joke's

03-07-2015 09:53PM

guppy wrote: »

You avin a bubble?

I dunno what that means, guppy

But I ain't a cockney

03-07-2015 09:53PM

PARlance wrote: »

Mam... An Irish Mammy or The Queen Mother

Ma'am for the old Queenie, not mam.

MRnotlob606 · 03-07-2015 09:55PM

U ****in wot mxiii I'll nick your nan and cellotape her to tree trunk an ill bash her head in with ma timberlands.

TheOtherBloke · 03-07-2015 09:55PM

Bloody hell = Im shocked
Banjaxed = Fecked
Shag = Ride

am I doing this right?

MRnotlob606 · 03-07-2015 09:56PM

I hate our judicial system is based on the British onem

TheOtherBloke · 03-07-2015 09:59PM

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Ohhh I dunno... sarf Lundun sowoffink innit :eek:

'Ello darli'n fancy abit of my meat 'n two veg?.. landan innit

James Bond Junior · 03-07-2015 10:00PM

I hate the description of a bold child as being naughty. Or nawwwty as they say.

guppy · 03-07-2015 10:00PM

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I dunno what that means, guppy

But I ain't a cockney

A laugh. Apparently rhymes with bubble bath.

My boyfriend is from greater London, and isn't cockney either, but uses some slang. That's the only one I really, really hate. It makes no sense because bath and laugh do NOT rhyme. And pronouncing it to make it rhyme is hideous.

03-07-2015 10:03PM

Bath and laugh do rhyme! Lol

guppy · 03-07-2015 10:05PM

Only if I'm having a "baaaf"

welchywelch · 03-07-2015 10:09PM

Dont know if it's certain areas or what but some of them seem to put an R at the end of a word, like Ford Fiester

Dyr · 03-07-2015 10:11PM

"Yeah?" wrecks my head yeah?

What Briticism does your head in?

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