Is that English?

[Millymollymandy]

But a wazz is a pee!

[Brij]

But a wazz is a pee!

My poor mum always thought that a wazz was something much ruder... She was relieved when I explained it is only a piddle!

[Millymollymandy]

And there's slash for pee as well!

Brij where are you from as I get the feeling it is London or nearby with use of the word 'gaff'.

[Brij]

Brij where are you from as I get the feeling it is London or nearby with use of the word 'gaff'.

The Beds/Cambs/Herts border. But my mum grew up in Scotland... Probably a Herts thing!

[Derry]

the word 'bint' is derived from the Arabic word for woman.. quite a lot of words in the modern english language are =]

my bloke is a stokie, and instead of 'yourself/myself' its 'yoursen/mysen' which really confuses me. he says 'rate' alot too.. such as, 'im rate sweaty' (after a gig haha)

ive been spending a lot of time with yamyams (people from the black country) recently, so ive been saying stuff like 'how am yam', 'where yow bin', etcetc

does anyone here know what a 'scrage' is?

[the.fee.fairy]

I have one for you!

A Laowai!

A Laowai is local slang (possibly chinese slang) for Foreigner.

[mrsflibble]

does anyone here know what a 'scrage' is?

i google'd it.... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scrage

[sleepyowl]

Yammisms from the Black Country:-
gill-houter-owl
tantadlin tart-cowpat
hillin-book cover
bost-broken
ommer-hammer

[MuddyWitch]

We would say 'summat' (something) like ' that's a scraggy looking dog' to mean it was in need of grooming, if that helps.

MW

[Derry]

does anyone here know what a 'scrage' is?

i google'd it.... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scrage

haha, its the first one. its a brummie term, a cross of a scratch and a graze... pretty much no one outside of brum has heard the term =]

[sleepyowl]

saft- stupid
pouk-stye
shommock-foot

[anarchistinslippers]

I can remember talking to a South African colleague about cakes.

Me: "I like teacakes.."
Her: "What are they? Like cupcakes, but bigger?"
Me: "No, they're kind of doughy scones, sometimes with currant/sultanas..."
Her: "Ah, that's a flapjack"
Me: "Naw, a flapjack is oats in syrup, cut into squares.."
Her: "No, that's a muffin.."
Me: "No, that's a teacake with attitude, with a weeks worth of calories.."

Et cetera!

[MuddyWitch]

Many Moons ago I worked on a holiday camp for the Summer. The waitresses there were drawn from all over the British isles. We took a vote on whether a 'moggy' was a cat or a mouse!

MW

[Graye]

I remember scrages! I was always scraging my knees when I was a kid. And how about scrobble? Another word which I thought was "real" English until I was about 10.

I once heard two old chaps at the bus stop in deep conversation about local news. The one said to the other "There was a bint knocked off down Brummagem Road". I would imagine that would be totally incomprehensible to non-Midlanders?

[Millymollymandy]

Perfectly comprehensible, sounds like London/Estuary English to me!