THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

milasavesmoney

GreyQueen wrote: »

NM = New Mexico, where mila lives.

Lol, hadn't thought about stroppy as being exclusively Brit-English. Here's a few more for the collection;

Trollied - very drunk.

Totting; verb, to retrieve rubbish for gain. Totter, one who tots. Tot is almost obsolete now, persisting in the phrase 'it's a load of old tot'.

Booter; car boot sale. Gathering of householders on a field somewhere, selling a load of old tot from the back of their cars. And some good stuff.

Yer mum; invitation to a barney in London and some other areas. Insults used to start Yer mum is a (insert vile term) and now a fight can be triggered by a simple Yer mum.

Barney - fight, brawl, noisy row.

Thousands more but time is pressing.

:):):):) Love this!!

We call a tot a small child.
A boot goes on the foot
Yo mama tend to be yo mama jokes although it could escalate
Barney is a purple dragon

Ivy, yes we would say riled or provoked. I think the press used provoked a lot at the time.
It's always taught as swim swam swum. And no one knows where or why we started saying snuck but it's taught that way and never questioned here. I looked it up and it came into everyday usage in the 1800's. Perhaps a colloquialism that became common? No one has a clue.
Bob,I just ordered the life straw by Sawyer and also got one in a bottle. They were in Amazon warehouse and cheap. I've been looking for a while at the life straw but your post prompted me to look again and low and behold, I found a bargain! Whoot whoot!
TW, perhaps your van ran over it and that's why they kept looking in that direction not seeing it.
It was under the van!:rotfl:

GreyQueen

Morning all.

I'm sure I read somewhere that 'snuck' is actually the correct grammar, it's just that it isn't English-English usage. I'm rather fond of it and will use it from time to time.

mila, there are so many funny terms in English-English which can and do raise eyebrows in visitors.

If a Brit invites you to put a sock in it you're not getting a laundry instruction but being asked to shut up. Put a bleedin' sock in it, willya? is an expression of considerable exasperation. Someone described as as nosy or beaky is considered to be prying into other people's business. A curtain-twitcher is spying on the neighbours by peering around the edge of their own curtains. Police are; the filth, rozzers, bizzies, peelers, polis (that's Scotland), the Old Bill any many others (it's early here and I'm still on my first mug of tea).

Semi to a Brit isn't a truck, it's short for semi-detached, a style of houses built in pairs on a divided plot and sharing a party-wall. Ar-tic is a style of lorry (truck) with a separate cab and trailer, rather than a rigid body. It's short for articulated lorry and is becoming obsolete as the word truck supercedes it. Lorry is now mostly reserved for smallish trucks sans articulation. Luton is a very large town in southern England with a history of car and truck building which has given its name to a style of lorry with an extension of the storage area over the roof of the cab. Hence luton-body isn't a comment of the townsfolk of Luton.;)

Skip is a metal container hired from skip-hire companies by householders or businesses for the disposal of building work (remodelling to you) detritus or excess household goods. It can be anything from the size of a Ford Fiesta to that of a large truck and is delivered to the address by a specialist lorry with a hoisting frame. Skip-diving is the well-known pastime of pulling things out of other people's skips on the public highway.

I read somewhere that when training is given to call centre staff in India about interacting with Brits in the UK, they are told to be wary when Brits get frostily polite, as it's a sign of extreme crossness. Mind you, dealing with call centres (I work in one, like a million other Brits) tends to have that effect on the rest of us, lol.:rotfl:

mardatha

The thing that creases me up when I talk to my pal in Flagstaff is the word "truck". She apparently has 2 of them and they use them to go to the shops and to MacDonalds. For years I fondly imaged her driving this huge 16-wheeler down the road when she went for her groceries - but it turns out a "truck" is a 4x4 :rotfl:

mardatha

Talking about regional accents, probably a few of you wouldn't understand me on the phone. I talk to another pal in Birmingham Alabama and we have terrible problems lol - she sounds like Elvis when she slows down and she sounds like a Martian when she gets excited and speeds up - and I have to use BBC Scots slowly If I was talking to the RV or daughter I'd say "Am gaun doon tae toon fur the messages" and for Alabama that has to translate into "I'm going down to town for the shopping!" LOL
Which is nothing to do about prepping really is it... I think Germany might soon do something about her Open Borders thing and Mrs Merkel might find her a$$ oot the windy as we say up here
edited to add prepping-related stuff lol

milasavesmoney

GQ and my friends, what does made up mean, as in the woman was made up. I think that's how I've read it on MSE threads. In the US it means to be wearing a lot of makeup. On here it doesn't seem to be the same context from what I've read. I was thinking it might mean annoyed.

Mar I just noticed you said creases me up. We say cracks me up. And I've been watching the TV series Hamish McBeth which I have no problem understanding except a few times when the Scottish accent takes over. I rewound one scene four times and never did know what Hamish said. It was like listening to a foreign language to me. No clue.

GreyQueen

milasavesmoney wrote: »

GQ and my friends, what does made up mean, as in the woman was made up. I think that's how I've read it on MSE threads. In the US it means to be wearing a lot of makeup. On here it doesn't seem to be the same context from what I've read. I was thinking it might mean annoyed.

Made up means very pleased. You might say something like, she got that new dress (or whatever) and she's totally made up.

Slang for make up is slap. Confusingly, slapper is also a derogatory but non-obscene insult for a woman. It implies low morals and is often qualified like they're a proper pair of slappers. Or, someone looks a right slapper.

ETA; Hey, mila, it gets worse. Chippy is a fish & chip shop, chippie/ chippy is slang for a carpenter, chippy (almost obsolete now) can also mean someone is touchy and irritable, derived from having a chip on one's shoulder. The latter is probably only used by the over-sixties now.

I once knew a Swedish woman married to a British man who'd lived here for 20+ years. Her English was flawless and unaccented and she got the idiomatic uses perfectly. She also expressed the utter exasperation of learning our language for the first time when each page of rules about grammar etc is qualified by another three pages of exceptions to the rules.

Several years ago, my employer experimented with voice-recognition software to handle some calls. We were asked to make lists of local words for common things in an attempt to educate the computer program. It failed abjectedly at coping with the variety of accents we encounter (global as well as local) and the general randomness of people's enquiries. It was quietly kicked into the long grass and never heard from again.

milasavesmoney

I'm glad to know that because I got it wrong entirely. Good thing I didn't respond thinking the woman was annoyed. They would have thought I was crazy.

GreyQueen

Another violent incident in Germany. Frau Merkel is history, I reckon, and I hope she has good bodyguards, because she'll need them.

Cheapskate

Morning all, taken me ages to catch up with this new thread - raring to go with all things MSE now that life is running a bit smoother! :rotfl:

We've had minor building work here, having a brief hiatus until the next (very major!) lot starts in a few weeks...cue LOTS of dejunking and tip runs! :eek:

My dad was Scottish, his accent watered down a bit from living here for 40+ years, but when tired/tipsy it came back with a vengeance, along with a bit of rude Gaelic! :rotfl: Makes following my Scottish cousin (from Glasgow) a breeze to understand. FiL was Welsh and could sound really so under similar circumstances. A uni friend is Czech, has lived here about 10 years, and is still floored by many Northern accents and idioms, poor love!

Mrs Merkel's immigration policy is really coming back to bite her, karma methinks..what a mess for the Germans..

A xo

Karmacat

GQ, you have to collate your language posts, and sell them on kindle as a book, they're brilliant

American friends tell me that Brits use "brilliant" a lot but they are!

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