Where do the name Scouse for a Liverpool inhabitant come from?

Answer 1

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 and in some parts of North Wales. The Scouse 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 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

Answer 2

Scouse is short for Lobscouse which is possibly Scandinavian in origin, and definitely has sea-going associations. It's a stew of vegetables and meat. In Liverpool there is also Blind scouse, which means that all the meat has been eaten. Obvious connection would be that Liverpool was a port. One could assume that the use of the word Scouse as meaning someone from Liverpool came from the less advantaged eating Lobscouse.

The grammar of the question leaves something to be desired; it should be, 'wur's de naim scouse *** from, whack?' But we carn't all be pairfek.

Now I'm really peed off! I try to write an approximation of a Scouse accent. So instead of writing come I write c u m. What's wrong with that? What does it mean to all of you out there who are obviously more acquainted with current 'naughty' words than I am? Any way since I'm a big girl now, I joined up the letters, and found the word had been changed to ***. Is there a site where I can find all the words which are in common use and which Yahoo! objects to - like the word for a female dog?

Answer 3

People from Liverpool are called Scousers because of a kind of hotpot that is eaten there.

Whenever I've had it it's just been made from sunday roast leftovers put in a stew, but I'm sure there is a proper recipe. My nan's usually contains potato, beef, carrot, cabbage and any other leftover veggies.

It can also be made without the meat, which is known, at least in formby, as a blind scouse (seriously)

Answer 4

Scouse is the accent and dialect of English found in the northern English city of Liverpool,

Answer 5

Its a beef stew containing carrots ,onion, potato and what-ever veg you like boiled this was called scouse hence the name Scouser for a Liverpudlian

Answer 6

It's the name of a stew that is or was popular in Liverpool. You are what you eat ie frogs/french, rosbif (roast beef)/the british, krauts (cabbage)/germans.

Answer 7

It was originally a viking word.