Do Brits really say "Yeah" all the time?

[TheStinger]

nob jockey is another good un

I'm really too old for this though

[MikeH]

Yeah, bell is just a lazy form of bell-end.

[DrSpike]

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

Nice pic. I remember that book - it was hilarious!

[Theben]

A bell here would refer to a comely woman of high status, used mainly (and a bit archaic) in the south. A "Southern bell".

[Alinestra Covelia]

Hmm, so they dropped the "e" at the end then? As in "Belle dame"?

[DrSpike]

It blatantly has an 'e' at the end!

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Cartimandua
My husband's younger cousins live in Brighton, England and they say 'yeah' in almost every sentence. As far as I can tell it really is the younger generation using it.

I've heard more than one older Brit use 'yeah' consistently in a very similar fashion to the Canadian 'eh', eh.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Do Canadians really speak like they do in South Park?

Only when we get excited and our heads start to flop aboot.

[Krill]

Originally posted by 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All my slang is from the 1990s and early 2000 to 2001, so it's a bit out of date.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

Well, I can tell you must have been a rah Castle girl, just from the last three on that list. We up on t'hill use the words shagged or ****ed, and generally call people by their names...

[Traianvs]

We also use "eh" often when asking questions or emphasizing things. So it never seems that strange to me when Americans make fun of Canadians because of that "eh"

It's a useful word if you don't know what to say next and need to think a short while!

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Krill
Well, I can tell you must have been a rah Castle girl, just from the last three on that list. We up on t'hill use the words shagged or ****ed, and generally call people by their names...

Those last three are all used in the Midlands, so they may not be Durham ones. Rarely used nowadays, and even then they were pretty posh versions.

In fact, most of those I recognise well, except skiving and 'bag it' I've seen more used as truenting and stealing/winning respectively.

[Dauphin]

I haven't heard anyone use "blag it" recently.

Maybe it's cos people I work with these days are a bit more studious.

[Krill]

I am a ****ing midlander. I'm from Stoke.

[Krill]

Skive generally gets used in a sentence such as "Skive off work early"...

[Dauphin]

Cushtie.