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schuette wrote:

rushlight wrote:I learned from Devil's Advocate:

French fries = chips
potato chips = crisps
jelly = jam
gelatin = jelly
toilet = loo or lav
thanks = ta
galoshes = wellies
umbrella = brolly
hey = oi

your learning light.....but for thanks I say cheers

I am a huge fan of the show Last of the Summer Wine and I hear "ta" a lot in that show. I think even in Doctor Who I heard that word. Dan says either or are correct.

How is "ta" pronounced? Is the a long or short or somewhat different?

it depends....I do sometimes say ta as well......when adults say ta is usually a short 'a'....but it's also what we teach the kids to say when they're learning to talk and then it's long as in 'ta-ah'

and light.....Last of the Summer Wine is as English as get oot

which means btw it's as English as really English

I see some similarities? with the PA Dutch and more with the people from Maine and the New England area, with your Scottish Schuette.

it just means they know the proper way to pronounce things Me

Yes = Aye

No = Naw

Corned beef and potatoes = Stovies

Haggis, Turnip and Potatoes = Haggis, Neeps and Tatties

Mouth = Coupon (as in "Shut your coupon")

Give me = Gies

TV = Telly

Television/DVD/Video remote control = The buttons

Over = Ower

Football = Fitba'

(So the above sentence "Give me the television remote control over so I can watch football" would be "Gies the telly buttons ower so ah can watch the fitba'.")

I haven't got any idea what you mean = Ah've nae a clue whit ye're oan aboot

You're kidding right? = Awa' wi' ye!!

H3WMW wrote:Yes = Aye

No = Naw

Corned beef and potatoes = Stovies

Haggis, Turnip and Potatoes = Haggis, Neeps and Tatties

Mouth = Coupon (as in "Shut your coupon")

Give me = Gies

TV = Telly

Television/DVD/Video remote control = The buttons

Over = Ower

Football = Fitba'

(So the above sentence "Give me the television remote control over so I can watch football" would be "Gies the telly buttons ower so ah can watch the fitba'.")

I haven't got any idea what you mean = Ah've nae a clue whit ye're oan aboot

You're kidding right? = Awa' wi' ye!!

I dig it, but if I may, I wanna put some redneck translations in there as well...like to see 'em?

Here we go:

Yes = Yep
No = NOPE
Corned Beef and potatoes = screamin' shits
Haggis, turnip and Potatoes = This ain't food...This here's what "food" EATS!
Mouth = Piehole
Give Me = Gimme
TV = Idiot Box
TV, DVD, Video remote control = Clicker
Over = Ova
Football = Fu'bawl

and a couple of new ones:

can = kin
there = thar
so as = so's
that = dat
alright = ayeeeet

"Gimme dat clicker, so's I kin change the channel on that thar idiot box, ayeeet?"

okokok lol back to Scottish lessons...what's next?

At the risk of getting abuse from Shuey here (she's a well balanced individual - a chip on each shoulder ), I'll give you the Midlands equivalents:

Yes = yeah

No = hah

Potatoes = spuds

Mouth = gob

Give me = giz

TV = box

Television/DVD/Video remote control = dibber

Football = footy

Idiot = prat or pillock

Rubbish = pants

Toilet = bog

Urinate = have a slash

Water = watter

Slaine mac Roth wrote:At the risk of getting abuse from Shuey here (she's a well balanced individual - a chip on each shoulder ), I'll give you the Midlands equivalents:

Yes = yeah

No = hah

Potatoes = spuds

Mouth = gob

Give me = giz

TV = box

Television/DVD/Video remote control = dibber

Football = footy

Idiot = prat or pillock

Rubbish = pants

Toilet = bog

Urinate = have a slash

Water = watter

How about:


Football= NFL


Hell yeahh!!!! Are you ready for some football, some Monday night showdown... best Hank Williams Jr impression

Slaine mac Roth wrote:At the risk of getting abuse from Shuey here (she's a well balanced individual - a chip on each shoulder )

....your lucky I like some English

Soup4Rush wrote:

Slaine mac Roth wrote:At the risk of getting abuse from Shuey here (she's a well balanced individual - a chip on each shoulder ), I'll give you the Midlands equivalents:

Yes = yeah

No = hah

Potatoes = spuds

Mouth = gob

Give me = giz

TV = box

Television/DVD/Video remote control = dibber

Football = footy

Idiot = prat or pillock

Rubbish = pants

Toilet = bog

Urinate = have a slash

Water = watter

How about:


Football= NFL


Hell yeahh!!!! Are you ready for some football, some Monday night showdown... best Hank Williams Jr impression

True dat Bro. True dat.

Compo from Last of the Summer Wine:

"What kind of a pillock rides a hillock? I love that show and it's hard to find the videos when they don't sell the complete series and that is one mighty long series.


I'll tell you of an experience I had in Wales which makes me determined to learn so many proper british words.

Dan and I went to see the Christmas lights get switched on in the shopping area downtown. It was a grand site and I saw the mayor of Pembrokeshire and the town crier dressed in the clothes like A Christmas Carol.
After a great fireworks display, we walked to a chippey (fast food place), and got some food. I ordered a hamburger and chips. The woman asked if I wanted a roll. I thought it was like the dinner rolls we have for dinner and I thought why would I need one if I got the bun for the burger already. So I said no and Dan and I got our food and headed for home. When I opened up my plate, I noticed only the meat and the chips but no bun. I was going to question Dan about this until it hit me that roll meant BUN! He even confirmed it but I ate my food like that anyway. So when I go back and when we go to a chippey again, I'm getting the roll.

hehehehehe....one question though.....was the hamburger in batter?

Ummm no. I think they just fried it. I want more practice at a chippy. A few people in front of me ordered different things like fish or pies and I forgot the questions they asked.

a steak pie supper is good.....but the hamburgers from the chippies up here are always in batter