I mean, even if you don't know what it means, does it even look offensive?
For the record it is a term that is always meant extremely affectionately - but in a platonic tense and means that you're lovely.
I'm not Scottish by the way - but - you wouldn't believe the amount of times we hear that. I'm a Mackem ... from the North East of England.
Canny can mean many things.
For instance ....
'Gan canny' means to be careful - as in ... gan canny, man, it's skitey (slippery/icy)
He's canny wi' his munny - tight/miser
Ahh, ant ye canny? You're a lovely person.
It was canny cauld/caad - it was so cold your eye lids froze shut the second you opened the door.
Canny bairn (yes, 'bairn' means child) can equally refer to adults as children, especially if someone's done you a big favour. (like give you lots of nice answers and thumbs up/stars).
You can all now confound those around you with a host of new sayings.
2007-05-17 08:05:01 · 12 answers · asked by elflaeda 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Jamand - yes, I loved the answers but trying to catch a different set of people now. All the Americans were asleep when I posted it originally.
2007-05-17 08:27:48 · update #1
My mother-in-law was a real canny bairn from your neck of the woods, a north-east women, I'm from Yorkshire and knew what a canny bairn was before I met her, the person who reported you for saying canny bairn needs to learn different expressions from different areas or maybe they are so brain dead all they know how to do is press the report key, well I think your a real canny bairn and so sorry someone was mean enough to do that to you.
2007-05-17 08:24:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If i will get a contravention be conscious for asserting i will mattress now...why cant you get a contravention for this? ;P i understand......its loopy yet i assume a number of human beings on Yahoo solutions do no longer talk English nicely sufficient to understand what's being pronounced. There are additionally slender minded people who take offense at any small ingredient or shaggy dog tale that may not meant to be grimy or risky in any way.
2016-11-24 19:14:04 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know what it means, we use the term a lot in the north-east. To get a violation for that is just ridiculous. I hope you get a lot of positive answers, then forward them to Yahoo. What kind of idiot would report you for that?
2007-05-17 08:12:10 · answer #3 · answered by Taylor29 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it wasn't me who reported you
honestly - i'm too stupid to know what that canny bairn means
2007-05-17 08:08:41 · answer #4 · answered by jenny 4 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Didn't you like the answers when you asked this question earlier - nothing better to do, obviously
2007-05-17 08:09:54 · answer #5 · answered by jamand 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you did not say canie in welsh is to sing so do you thunk it may be the Americans do not under stand our language
2007-05-17 08:18:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
some of my Q&As can be a bit near the mark, but i find i get violations not for them but for the ones i least expect...? the mind boggles::!!
2007-05-17 08:11:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well some ignorant asshole must have misunderstood the term:and violated your question.
Silly to do that.
Sky
2007-05-17 08:10:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
nothing surprises me on here i had one for answering i don`t know,,
2007-05-17 08:09:08 · answer #9 · answered by james michael c 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thanks for the language lesson! There is one less American confounded on P&S today.
2007-05-17 08:10:36 · answer #10 · answered by Chairman LMAO 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋