What is a Scouser?

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Answer 1

Someone from Liverpool. Why they are called that I have always wondered myself.

Answer 2

A Scouser is someone from Liverpool, otherwise usually called a Liverpudlian - local dialect in Liverpool favours Scoucer which comes from the name of a local dish I think.

Scouse dialect is highly distinctive and seems to come from two main sources - Irish English and Welsh English. The Welsh in particular have historically had a major influence on Liverpool - it is in fact the official capital of North Wales. The Welsh National Eisteddfod will be held in Liverpool this year, 2007. All in Welsh.

Antonia m is right - I have met many dozens of Scousers in my 65 years. They are intelligent and sharp witted and good company to be with. Pity they're crap at rugby.

Answer 3

Person from Liverpool. Scousers are generally welcoming, fun loving, hardworking and a talented breed of people. Over the years there has been a wealth of talent come out of Liverpool and that flame still burns bright today. Let me also mention that Liverpool will now be the Capital of Culture 2008, and with the funding from Europe, it can only make Liverpool even better. As for the people who like to use old boring stereotypes made popular in the 1980's, I really would like you to come and see for yourself. Either that or check the crime and unemployment stats, Liverpool has higher EMPLOYMENT rates and LOWER crime rates than the likes of Manchester and areas of London.

Answer 4

A scouser is a person from liverpool i am a scouser and i bet u ya get some smart answers dissing us from mancs(which are people from manchester)but we are much nicer people

Answer 5

a scouser is a creature from a north western town in england called liverpool which is a small suburb of a place called tranmere, this creature is very much like the hyena because when it goes to football matches it likes to hunt in packs, when confronted 1 on 1 it doesn't want to know but when it outnumbers its prey by about 10 to 1 then it gets very brave.

Answer 6

a Scouser is one who lives or is a native of Liverpool in england

Answer 7

Somebody from Liverpool UK. They call them Scousers because their accent

Answer 8

Scouse is the accent and dialect of English found in the north-western English city of Liverpool and in some adjoining urban areas of Merseyside. 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. Alternate recipes have included beef and thickened with the gelatin source found in cowheel or pig trotter in addition to various root vegetables. Other sources suggest that "labskaus" is a Norwegian term, and considering the number of Merseyside place-names ending in "-by" (Formby, Kirkby, Greasby, Pensby, Roby), a Viking rather than German source must be considered. Various spellings can still be traced, including "lobscows" from Wales, and some families refer to this stew as "lobby" rather than scouse. The dish was traditionally the fare of the poor people, using the cheapest cuts of meat available, and indeed when no meat at all was available scouse was still made, but this "vegetarian" version was known as "blind scouse".

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. It is only recently that Scouse has been treated as a cohesive accent/dialect; for many years, Liverpool was simply seen as a melting pot of different accents with no one to call its own. The Survey of English Dialects ignored Liverpool completely, and the dialect researcher Ellis said that Liverpool [and Birkenhead] had "no dialect proper".[

Answer 9

A person who originate`s from Liverpool, who speaks like Stevie G does, Honestly most of the ones I have met are nice.

Answer 10

Somebody who lives in Liverpool.
Would nick the wheels off your car.
Can't speak proper English.
Talk like they've got a brick in their mouth.
Used to be famous for wearing shell suits, do they still dress like that?
Supporters only go around in groups.
Used to have ridiculous moustaches, do they still have them?
Believe, that only they know about football.
Would rob their own mother.
Mostly on ASBO's or in prison.
Poor.
Live in a run down area with nothing else to do other than watch football.

Answer 11

Someone from Liverpool