Regional phrases preserved in new wordbank

[Jazzy]

Linguists at the British Library have assembled a list of thousands of rare words and phrases from regional dialects in order to help preserve them.



Linguists at the British Library have assembled a list of thousands of rare words and phrases from regional dialects in order to preserve them - and make them available far beyond their native area.



Around 4,000 locally-used words and phrases have been contributed to the wordbank by members of the public who visited the library, in central London, or attended a series of events at provincial libraries, at which they were asked to provide phrases that are particular to their region.



The database has been compiled as one of a series of projects connected to the British Library's Evolving English exhibition.



The British Library has collected a “wordbank” to preserve thousands of words and phrases from British regional dialects. Here is a selection of them:



baffies - slippers (east coast of Scotland)



bishybarnabee - ladybird (Norfolk)



bobowler - large moth (Birmingham)



brash - to cut branches off trees after felling (South Wales)



brozzen - full (having eaten too much) (Swaledale)



coopers ducks - the end is nigh, it’s all over (Black Country)



deff - to ignore, split up, pack in, avoid (Birmingham)



dimpsy - half light, just turning dark (Somerset)



dodderman - snail (Norfolk / Suffolk)



dreckly - later, some time, 'manana’ (Cornwall)



gambol - forward roll (Birmingham)



ginnel - alleyway (West Riding)



gopping - unattractive (Manchester)



guddle - to rummage about (Northumberland and parts of Scotland)



gurtlush - the best (Bristol)



gully stottie - bread knife (Ashington, Northumberland)



kets - sweets (Darlington)



ladgin - something embarrassing or unpleasant (York)



man de don’t know what the buer is rockerin - I don’t know what the woman is on about, using “bewer” for “woman” and “rocker” - “to speak or understand” (Newark)



nesh - a bit weedy, being cold when you shouldn’t be (Nottingham)



on the box - off sick from work (Black Country)



on the huh - not quite straight (Norfolk)



pitch - snow that sticks to the ground (West Country)



spoggy - chewing gum (Grimsby)



ronking - smelly, disgusting (Black Country)



tittermatorter - see-saw (Norfolk)



tiss up - forward roll (Leicester)



tranklements - ornaments (Black Country)



twag - to play truant (East Riding)



twitchell - alleyway (Nottingham)



while - till, until (Yorkshire)



Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...can-tell-a-bobowler-from-a-bishybarnabee.html



Just wondering if any of you use these phrases. If so, which ones?

 

[Evil Eye]

I sure don't

 

[Jazzy]

I bet if I were to ask one of my friends if they wanted to go on the tittermatorter with me, I'd get some very strange reactions.

Here in the US, we call it a seesaw (also known as a teeter-totter or teeter board).

 

[Masri]

No, don't use any of these. o.o