Can you speak in your regional dialect?

Question

I mean- not just accent but speak/understand your local or your native county/regional dialect?
What are some interesting words?
An example- a "dumbledore" is Somerset for bumble-bee (I live in Bath but used to live in London). Oooh, arrr.

Answer 1

Yes .I am a Scot from the far north of Scotland ,been in England these last forty years ,yet when on the telephone to friends " back home " my wife gets uptight ,the grandchildren screw up their faces and says " what language is grandad speaking.

Answer 2

I live up north. Cumbria to be exact. Cumbrian dialect is so accurate we even have our own pronunciation of numbers

1 - Yan
2 - Tan
3 - Tether

We also have 'ta' for thank you, 'yam' for home, 'garn' for going and 'nowt' for nothing.

It's quite an interesting dialect, actually. I think that because I've lived here all my life it's easy for me to understand. I know that whenever in London and I use these phrases without thinking, like saying 'ta' to a bus driver, I got funny looks!

Answer 3

Oh dear, they are definitely pulling your leg. Cats in France, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Austria, Usa etc (can't remember all the places I've been to) all meow the same and look the same. The only difference I can see is that in Europe the cats seem to be wild rather than domesticated and so would not be as friendly and would probably run away unless you had food for them.

Answer 4

Yes, I can. I'm Indonesian and I speak Javanese besides Bahasa Indonesia. :-p

The word batik, gamelan, gong and kris are some examples of Javanese words adopted into English.

Answer 5

I'm from Manchester but i've been in London for 6 years now. I can understand stuff from both places.

Answer 6

Here's a few from round 'ere:

Macky
Meaning: Very big
As in: "Yer feets macky."

Ank
Meaning: To go fast (usually on two wheels of a four wheeled vehicle)
As in: "Blige! Ee anked it roun that corner mind!"

"Benny"
Meaning: To lose your temper
As in: "Ee ad a right benny when I told im bout me an err."

"Dees Casn't Do Dat"
Meaning: You can't do that
As in: "Oi! Dees casn't do dat yer!"

Glenner
Meaning: A person who is a couple of toppers short of a full loaf. (Derived from Glenside Psychiatric Hospital. (derog.))
As in: "Ee's a right glenner mind!"

Topper
Meaning: The end piece of a loaf of bread; crust.
As in: "I don't want no sangwedges made out of toppers mind!"

Answer 7

Mate........... I'm first generation Aussie and the language I grew up with is so b*stardised - I swear I'm 100 percent sure I could visit the country of my origin using it and get peculiar looks,
not to mention no directions!

Answer 8

yes i can. there are 2 types of languages found in Sri Lanka in the national scale, its the Sinhalese andTamil. i can speak Sinhala. yet to learn tamil.

in the modern times we have used more english words to develop sinhala words.. like

Bus-eka:meaning bus
Gangsiya: meaning gang

Answer 9

Yes, definately. LIke a Lancashire accent. Picked it up from my grandad lol

Answer 10

Oh aye, I caun, ken fit I mean??

I slip in and out of it depending who i'm talking to. It's great, don't know why it can't be considered bilingual!!