Translator required (must be north of Watford)

[julianf]

 

[Wozzaaah]

Took me a few goes but I got it in the end.

 

[James1979]

Clever but I can’t abide being called Duck.

It’s the only colloquialism that really grips my ****!!!

 

[Kayos]

Clever but I can’t abide being called Duck.

It’s the only colloquialism that really grips my ****!!!

Was in a sandwich shop in Derby, every other word was "duck"

I thought "where's this **Language**ing duck they all keep taking about?"

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Was in a sandwich shop in Derby, every other word was "duck"

I'd have paid heed, there could have been a guy behind you with a baseball bat.....

 

[Wozzaaah]

Clever but I can’t abide being called Duck.

It’s the only colloquialism that really grips my ****!!!

I've got a customer who calls me "mate", it sounds a bit odd as she's about 60.
I did tell her my name once but no, I'm still "mate".

 

[chunkolini]

I know quite a few people called Mate. A very common name

 

[winchman]

Got it first time but I like that sort of stuff bit like a Dingbat

 

[Greeves246]

I know quite a few people called Mate. A very common name

A kid behind a stores counter called me “mate”, I replied I am not your mate, never have been and never will. To you I am Mr……… unless I tell you otherwise.

 

[tom2207]

We had a customer in last week who called her daughter

A-E


Wait for it ,,, Pronounced Adashee.

The poor child would have been better off with a number ,,, what a stone to hang round the childs neck.

 

[vmaximus]

Where I live, Kirkby in Ashfield, being called Duck is common place it's just a common greeting as in aye up mi duck, but being called mate by builders merchants and motor factors drives me nuts.

 

[daleyd]

Where I live, Kirkby in Ashfield, being called Duck is common place it's just a common greeting as in aye up mi duck, but being called mate by builders merchants and motor factors drives me nuts.

I used to do work for a printing company up that way and all the engineering guys used to call me that - I thought they just fancied me until I realised they said it to everyone.

 

[pedrobedro]

You get it round here, mate and duck but we also get "orate youth" as well, even if you are north of 60 years old.

 

[vmaximus]

Yes being called Youth what ever your age is also pretty common as well.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

www.britishcondoms.uk/mates-natural-condoms.html

Why some people get called "A Mate" today.

 

[Fred Trevvett]

A kid behind a stores counter called me “mate”, I replied I am not your mate, never have been and never will. To you I am Mr……… unless I tell you otherwise.

I bet he really liked that

 

[johnik]

first time i went to Bristol i was supprised to hear a supermarket checkout woman address me as "allright my luverrrrrr", seems most people talk like that round there...scarey place.

 

[Rannsachair]

I suspect south of Hadrian's wall as well as North of Watford. When I worked in a factory in Fife, it was common practice for the locals to call anyone you know "neighbour" or "neebs"

There were a few strange exclamations like "shah hoor sir!"

 

[ajlelectronics]

As a civilian teacher in the prisons, all the inmates called me and the other teachers, "boss". No idea why but it rankles when I hear it now.

 

[Mikey D]

Been called "bab" in the Black Country , "shag" around the telford area , "Mon" in parts of shropshire "youth" in Ashbourne

"Blue"not sure where that originates from ????