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2006-10-05 02:22:28 · 8 answers · asked by mary texas 4 in Travel United Kingdom Liverpool

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Who came from Liverpool (Scouse is sound of language)
Scouse is the accent and dialect of English found in the northern English city of Liverpool, in some adjoining urban areas of Merseyside, and less commonly in northwestern Cheshire and Skelmersdale, West Lancashire. The Liverpool accent is highly distinctive and sounds wholly different from the accents used in the neighbouring regions of Cheshire and rural Lancashire. Inhabitants of Liverpool are called Liverpudlians but are more often described by the slang term Scousers.

The word Scouse was originally a variation of lobscouse (probably from the north German sailor's dish Labskaus), the name of a traditional dish of scouse (food) made with lamb stew mixed with hardtack eaten by sailors.

The roots of the accent can be traced back to the large numbers of immigrants into the Liverpool area in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries including those from the Isle of Man, Scotland, and most importantly, Ireland. The influence of these different speech patterns became apparent in Liverpool, distinguishing the accent of its people from those of the surrounding Lancashire and Cheshire areas.

2006-10-05 02:25:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Scouse is the accent and dialect of English found in the northern English city of Liverpool, in some adjoining urban areas of Merseyside, and less commonly in northwestern Cheshire and Skelmersdale, West Lancashire. The Liverpool accent is highly distinctive and sounds wholly different from the accents used in the neighbouring regions of Cheshire and rural Lancashire. Inhabitants of Liverpool are called Liverpudlians but are more often described by the slang term Scousers.

The word Scouse was originally a variation of lobscouse (probably from the north German sailor's dish Labskaus), the name of a traditional dish of scouse (food) made with lamb stew mixed with hardtack eaten by sailors.

The roots of the accent can be traced back to the large numbers of immigrants into the Liverpool area in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries including those from the Isle of Man, Scotland, and most importantly, Ireland. The influence of these different speech patterns became apparent in Liverpool, distinguishing the accent of its people from those of the surrounding Lancashire and Cheshire areas.

2006-10-05 02:26:25 · answer #2 · answered by eeaglenest 3 · 0 0

Scouser is a native of Liverpool particularly one who speaks teh local dialect. However the origin of its name comes from a dish.

Scouse - or to give it its full title, Lobscouse, is of course a food rather than a dialect; it is the native dish of the Liverpudlian, or Scouser. Scouse is to Liverpool what Bouillabaisse is to Marseilles or Schnitzel is to Vienna. Scouse, unlike most dishes, derived from a place or origin, was born out of abject poverty. A simple stew made from the cheapest cuts of meat, usually mutton, boiled with potatoes and onions. The meat ingredient is optional, without which the Scouse becomes Blind Scouse. Either kind is eaten with red cabbage pickled in vinegar. However, like the years of poverty, Scouse is now part of the history and the visitor to Liverpool will search in vain for a restaurant that serves Liverpool's own dish, although it is sometimes possible to find Irish Stew, a direct ancestor, on bills of fare.

2006-10-05 02:27:09 · answer #3 · answered by Chris C 2 · 0 0

As well as being someone who comes from Liverpool (my mother and her family are scousers) and the Liverpudlian speak, scouse is also a meat stew and blind scouse is the stew without any meat!

2006-10-05 07:08:07 · answer #4 · answered by sarch_uk 7 · 0 0

What Does Scouse Mean

2016-11-14 08:14:55 · answer #5 · answered by alpis 4 · 0 0

The scourer is an accouterment for cleaning a firearm. The head is divided into three blades. The central one would have a cloth wrapped around it to wipe out the interior of the gun barrel, while the two angle exterior blades were for scraping.

2006-10-05 02:28:59 · answer #6 · answered by trushka 4 · 0 2

A scouser is a nickname for someone who comes from Liverpool,England

2006-10-05 02:24:11 · answer #7 · answered by Taylor29 7 · 0 0

Sounds like a drawn out way of saying saucer...like the thing your cup goes on....a tea saucer

2006-10-05 02:27:17 · answer #8 · answered by Lovely B 3 · 0 1

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