ajlelectronics
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Neighbours! (Australia, Sheila).
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Neighbours! (Australia, Sheila).
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"Me babber", "shag" and "blue" have all done the rounds here, don't hear them anymore though.
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In the black country you'll get "orright cock" 
daleyd
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There’s a town near me (Buckley) where “mon” is used as a greeting/term of endearment but nowhere else locally - apparently it was to do with a brickworks which opened up back in Victorian times and a lot of people moved up from the Stoke/potteries area to work there, and that term came with them - but never went anywhere else!!
Well, being a "Suvverner" who married a Tamworth lass and living on the border of 4 counties (Leics, Warwks, Debys, Staffs) I've heard my fair share of colloquialisms. And no, we still don't agree what a bread roll is called.
I think the only more confused I have ever been was when I worked for (the then) Alliance & Leicester. When they bought Girobank I had to go to Bootle for 6 months with integration work. I genuinely thought I had arrived in a completely different country. Scouse is one thing, Bootle Scouse is quite another. Very broad.
I think the only more confused I have ever been was when I worked for (the then) Alliance & Leicester. When they bought Girobank I had to go to Bootle for 6 months with integration work. I genuinely thought I had arrived in a completely different country. Scouse is one thing, Bootle Scouse is quite another. Very broad.
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Oh the deluded south, how us northerners despair
*Awaits a cheeky response from a Scot*
Bobtail4x4
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locally people refer to each other as love, even bloke to bloke.
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Got called "love" by a newspaper seller in Leeds, he was well into his 70's, I was told it was normal. I'm another who hates being called mate, especially by shop staff, down the pubs getting " 'Scuse me mate" as someone is getting past is pretty common, that I'm not bothered about.
Speaking as a Yorkshire man the Scots are irrelevant as Scotland is another country - Watford Gap is half way up England !Oh the deluded south, how us northerners despair
*Awaits a cheeky response from a Scot*
once by checkout person in a poundstretcher ....... you don't get that in Waitrose And when you depart,it’s “ta ta a bit”In the black country you'll get "orright cock"
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slim_boy_fat
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Oh the deluded south, how us northerners despair
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We're maintaining a dignified silence.
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do you realy want to know why they call you and the police bosAs 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.
there takin the **** without u knowing 
bag of sh.it 
octo0072000
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60years ago all the teachers (masters) at the local borstal farm was always called bossAs 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.
no i was not init used to hang about with two other kids from school and got my racing pigeons from one of the masters
