Boots, chav, and pushchair....

[MissBroody]

at Neds in this part of wales aside from Chavs we also call them "Nesbitts" though a Nesbitt can also mean a skanky dirty kind of person as well
some welsh people on here might know the welsh spoof rap band Goldie Lookin' Chain (named after the big fake chunky gold stuff that chavs love to sport that turns your skin green lol)

https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?img...g8QPJ56CnBg&page=1&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:9,s:0

Where in South Wales are you hun? Goldie Lookin' Chain were from Newport - 10 minites down the road from me!
xx

Im in newport, though im from further up the valley so i can use it to mock my OH and family who are from "the port" lol alarmingly K has a tinge of a newport accent on some of the sounds he makes, i cant describe it on here its beyond vowels lol!

I love love northern accents! will (nearly) always fancy men with northern accents lol

lol! I'm from Cwmbran, OH is from Ebbw Vale. I did dancing for years in Bettws and picked up a bit of a newport twang
xx

 

[Zedfaca]

one of my birmingham friends says let's def it instead of let's not do that!

that doesn't even make sense! (saying that, not much on this thread does!)

I know right? Not even let's def it off! THAT might make sense. How do all these words even get started? Oh I thought of the weirdest one, in Leicester they call a ride on the back of someone's bike a croggy!!! What the? And let's not even get started on the bap/roll/cob/butty debate

 

[sjminimac]

one of my birmingham friends says let's def it instead of let's not do that!

that doesn't even make sense! (saying that, not much on this thread does!)

I know right? Not even let's def it off! THAT might make sense. How do all these words even get started? Oh I thought of the weirdest one, in Leicester they call a ride on the back of someone's bike a croggy!!! What the? And let's not even get started on the bap/roll/cob/butty debate

Ah well, yorkshire chippies don't know what they're on about. Hubby asked for a teacake, where i come from they have currants in! It's a bread roll for god's sake. And don't bother asking for pudding chips peas and gravy this side of the pennines, they just look at you like you're mad!

 

[going_crazy]

I am literally LMAO @ this thread........ Not only at the translations of some of the words (fanny pack springs to mind!) but the "chav confessions" are killing me!!

who's brave enough to post a pic of themselves from their "why did I dress like that" days???????

 

[mrsthomas623]

So I was a little nervous when I started this thread, but I go to bed, wake up and it's ten pages long!! There's so much that had me laughing out loud and that had me saying, HUH??

I really did think that you guys had these beautiful lush flower gardens with vines and trees and all sorts of flowers for your back yard. I had no idea "boots" was a trunk though??

Some fun Canadian ones:

couch = chesterfield (American's make fun of us for this one a lot!)
college = university (we have both, but apparently college is higher in the states? but university is higher education here).
hat / hood = touque (I had the hardest time explaining this to an American once, it's a knit hat thing with a ball on the top, google it! I had no idea American's didn't know what it was, or maybe it was just the one I was talking with)
pull over sweater with a hood = bunny hug

And I'm sure most people know we are known for saying - EH, a lot! Just at the end of a sentence, eh? Like when others say, hey? Or, do you think? Eh? Get it?

I do have one question....what on earth is cotton wool??? Cotton is from a plant, wool is from a sheep. Is it cotton balls? Or is it a towel? That is one I do not get.

Most of the time college is synonymous with university. We call it college even if it is called The Ohio State University . Make sense?

Schooling in the States-
Elementary School (Grade School)
Middle School (Junior High)
High School
College

 

[~RedLily~]

I have been confused by friends for YEARS where Joey and Charlie talk about her wearing a thong in Barbados. Now I finally get it

 

[minties]

Ha ha! Yes you pretty much have it all right. A chav is a douche but one who is really common, talks in a really dopey drawn out way, dresses like they fell over in a paint shop but for some reason thinks incredibly highly of themselves. I was once talking to this Australian guy and he told me that over there they call chavs bogans! And you can spot a bogan because they never wear any shoes. Oh and they call their flip flops thongs but I guess our calling them flip flops is pretty silly

What a great thread! In New Zealand a bogan wears black t-shirts (think 80's metallica type things), loves motorbikes and smoking and drinking, and often has long scraggly hair. I live in West Auckland and it's meant to be full of bogans.

And here a moses basket and a bassinette are different - moses basket is a cane basket with handles, a bassinette is is like a frilly thing with white drapery and ccrap all over it, with a hood and it comes on a stand with wheels.

The word crib always gets me, I think of gangsters!

 

[pinklightbulb]

I'm in Australia and must confess I laughed like an idiot at the word 'plonker.' Is this a word for 'stupid person?' That's how I read it.

 

[flubdub]

courgette - zucchini
aubergine - eggplant
car bonnet - hood
cupboard - closet
tap - fawcet
pavement/footpath - sidewalk
escalator - moving stairs?
wellies - rain boots /galoshes
adverts - commercials
we do "maths" - you do "math"
pissed means 'drunk' - your pissed means angry
mobile phone - cell
jumper - sweatshirt
washing - laundry
jam - jelly
jelly - Jell-O/edible gelatin

 

[hmcx]

Love this!!!

I had a bright red sweater shop jumper, Only A Morgan bag would do for school! I was also the owner of a lovely Bright blue Adidas Tracksuit with Orange stripes!! Yummy!!

 

[hmcx]

Think this, but a whole tracksuit!!

 

[Surprise]

courgette - zucchini
aubergine - eggplant
car bonnet - hood
cupboard - closet
tap - fawcet
pavement/footpath - sidewalk
escalator - moving stairs?
wellies - rain boots /galoshes
adverts - commercials
we do "maths" - you do "math"
pissed means 'drunk' - your pissed means angry
mobile phone - cell
jumper - sweatshirt
washing - laundry
jam - jelly
jelly - Jell-O/edible gelatin

We say escalators, too. And depending on what state/region we are, we say tap or faucet. And outside it's a spigot, lol.

I personally say adverts, because my grandparents were of scottish descent and living in a very insular community, their speech patterns remained unchanged for the most part, and so my dad has many different ways of speech than a typical american, and I picked up a lot of it too. We say "wee", for instance, for "small".

The other day, I told my hubby that something "took the biscuit" It made my day!!! (In America, things "take the cake")

 

[Surprise]

And a biscuit is not a cookie to americans, it's a breakfast bread!! LOL at "takes the biscuit"

 

[Gemz01]

I never got the 'Pant's thing - My american friend for the first time said to me "Yeah I am just going to be wearing pants and a top" .. I thought she was literally going to go out in a top and her underwear until I questioned her outfit choice LOL!!

 

[AlwaysPraying]

Ahh! This is brilliant! I had no idea pants were underwear! Car bonnet is hood?!! When I think of bonnet, I think of a lacy hat for a new born baby, but in giant size to cover a car!

 

[Dizzymum]

Our friend recently moved to Florida to marry an American lady who has 3 kids.
He has them all drinking tea, and watching British T.V programmes now!
Each time he comes home, they ask him to bring them back Cadburys chocolate and battenburg cake lol

We love to hear his stories about how he is forever getting into difficulties because of his accent - he often has to put on an American accent to be understood lol

 

[leoniebabey]

i have american relatives and when they come they take stuff back, i was amazed that smarties and shortbread and chocloate digestives dont exist in america

 

[Learnermum]

courgette - zucchini
aubergine - eggplant
car bonnet - hood
cupboard - closet
tap - fawcet
pavement/footpath - sidewalk
escalator - moving stairs?
wellies - rain boots /galoshes
adverts - commercials
we do "maths" - you do "math"
pissed means 'drunk' - your pissed means angry
mobile phone - cell
jumper - sweatshirt
washing - laundry
jam - jelly
jelly - Jell-O/edible gelatin

Oh I have such fun in the supermarket trying to work out certain things,
Coriander - cilantro
Milk is too confusing...
2% is pretty much semi-skimmed
1% is pretty much skimmed
And the fat free stuff IMO is minging! (which would be disgusting )
Some supermarkets stock English brands but $3 for a normal size tin of Heinz baked beans is a bit much!

What really gets me is that I have to pay attention to dates and think each time I see it written as month/day/year instead of the english day/month/year which does get interesting when I have to write my dob!

 

[iHeartbaby#1]

i have american relatives and when they come they take stuff back, i was amazed that smarties and shortbread and chocloate digestives dont exist in america

If you're talking about the candy, we have them. I LOVE smarties and sweet tarts

 

[kawaiigirl]

I'm from N. Ireland. I call those shiny tracksuits shell suits and would call a chav a steek. We would say 'what a steek' or 'how steeky are they'

Anyone remember Fruit of the Loom jumpers? So bad!! Xx