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Local lingo...

from JoeUser Forums
Before I dash off, I was wondering about different ways of talking, and figures of speech. I'm from the UK, so we have quite a few odd phrases being bandied about day to day (not that I know most of them!), and I was wondering what all of you out there in JU land have as your weird and wonderful day to day phrases! You might use them daily and not worry, but have a think about them - would they sounds downright freaky to someone not from "around here"?!

Example from Devon, UK: "Where's he to?" or "Where's that {insert item here} to?" meaning where is it?
Also, widely used, is the term of endearment "My lover". Just a friendly gesture here in the SouthWest UK, but to others, who knows?!

So, go on, have a think... what makes up your dialect? What weird sayings to you use? Spill all here!

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
I tell people to 'have good mosh-pitting' sometimes.... picked it up off an old Adam Sandler comedy bit a few years back and can't seem to get rid of it.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Apparently "Cozzys" means Swimsuits in some places... like Australia!
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
I like to use "crub" and "mother pus buckets" as expletives. Strictly a personal thing, though.

In Minnesota, a common dialectical element is "go with", as in "I'm going to the store. You wanna go with?" (Also commonly used as "come with".) I don't particularly like this bit of local flavor, though....
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Interesting... in what context, though?


As a see you later type thing.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
chip - OK! I'll be sure to include that one in my conversations later

"I'm going to the store. You wanna go with?"


Yes, this is a saying in the UK too. We shorten everything, don't we!

I like to use "crub" and "mother pus buckets" as expletives


Um...?! I don't think I want to ask!
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
I live in Utah...the land of mutilated english. We call it Utonics!

Most people say "would you like to go to store with me?"

We say "ya wanna go up to the store?"

Most people say "Hell"

We say "heck"

Most people say "f***"

We say "Flip" "Frick" or "fetch" (well most do...I use the old standard "F***")

I could go on, but ya get my point right?
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
We say "Flip" "Frick" or "fetch" (well most do...I use the old standard "F***")


Fetch?! Never heard that before! lol!

I can't remember where I heard it, but somewhere where I used to live people used to say "Do you want to go up town?" or "...up the shop?", so in that way we're similar to you
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
"I'm going to the store. You wanna go with?"


Yes, this is a saying in the UK too. We shorten everything, don't we!


I'm guessing that one's pretty universal, as I heard that all the time when I lived in New York and later in Arkansas! Pretty different areas, but maybe I just transplanted it with me?
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
I admire the English use of bloody as a substitute for the f-word. From the archives of the thirties and forties, the use of swell in lieu of f------good or hot sh--.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
It's not a substitute! It's just a stupid word Dont' be fooled by our English "butter-wouldn't-melt", cricket playing, cream teas charm.... if you catch us on a bad day, we will all swear like troopers! (or should that be like Americans?! lol! jk )
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
Touché ... an alternate then for timid vampires? Yes, when I hit my thumb with a hammer I say goddamit! not Oh, my, ... delovely!