Do Brits really say "Yeah" all the time?

[Kidlicious]

Like, gag me with a spoon, I mean totally rad.

[Alinestra Covelia]

I had a friend from Lancaster who did say that a lot, but it was definitely a particular quirk of his. It was sort of akin to saying "y'know?" or, as some Ozzies and Yanks do, saying each sentence with a slight rising intonation.

Then again this friend is currently working for a quantum research lab in Oxfordshire, so his habit of saying "yeah?" after everything may well have roots in his inherent intelligence and the fact that he often had to explain things to me.

It's really hard to generalize anything about the Brits' language. For such a small geographical expanse, they have a bewildering array of accents and dialects.

[*End Is Forever*]

Buzzin'

[Alinestra Covelia]

All my slang is from the 1990s and early 2000 to 2001, so it's a bit out of date. The words I used to use a lot were:

• Take a slash - urinate
• Dodgy - unreliable
• Mardy - sulky
• Stroppy - sulky
• Huffy - sulky
• Shirty - sulky
• Skiving - malingering
• Bag it - disregard it
• Pack it in - desist
• Roger - to shag hard
• Tuppence - that which gets Rogered
• Slapper - owner of the tuppence which gets Rogered

[DrSpike]

I presume you studied in the North as there's a couple I've never heard there.

And fortunately I am far to gentlemanly to comment on the fact you have four words for stroppy.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Yep, I studied at a boarding school in the midlands for five years and then at Durham University up near Newky.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by DrSpike
And fortunately I am far to gentlemanly to comment on the fact you have four words for stroppy.

No need to get narky

[Alinestra Covelia]

This is a picture of me reading Roger's Profanisaurus, published by Viz magazine.

[*End Is Forever*]

Well I grew up in the north in the nineties and one or two of those are new to me. I am still amused by how we used "taxed" to be "stolen", ie, "Miss, miss, he's taxed my ruler!". Gordon Brown take note...

[Thoth]

I thought "rogering" specifically referred to arse shagging.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Thoth
I thought "rogering" specifically referred to arse shagging.

You must have suprised some people with that.

[Thoth]

Only in conjunction with the phrase "with a cactus"

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by *End Is Forever*
I am still amused by how we used "taxed" to be "stolen", ie, "Miss, miss, he's taxed my ruler!". Gordon Brown take note...

Ooh, those words were fun. "Thefted" was perhaps the most polite form, and "Gypsied" and "Jobbo'd" were less politically correct forms. A "jobber" was somebody who stole routinely, and a "gypsy" was somebody who did that in addition to being unkempt.

You're probably all familiar by now with the terms "wanker" and "tosser" to mean somebody of low esteem (usually male, given the anatomical etymology - a ruder way of saying "jerk", perhaps). But did you know "bell" and "bell-end", deriving from a very similar source?

A few words I never really understood were "prat" and "pillock". Both describe people who are generally idiots, but I never figured out why.

They also say "sugar" a fair bit when things don't go as planned.

[TheStinger]

"mad as a badger" is quite popular these days

[*End Is Forever*]

I've heard "bell-end" but never just "bell". Maybe your classmates were just too lazy for the additional syllable...