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'Appen.
(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:16, Reply)
Bristol dialect Standard English use
Where's that to? Where is it?
I was led down I was lying down
We was there yesterday We were there yesterday
I was sat/ I was stood I was sitting/I sat
I didn't do nothing I didn't do anything
Theirselves Themselves
Look at them people Look at those people
He do's it He does it
He can do it hisself He can do it himself
Casn't Can't
I looks at I looked at
Theys [real gems] They're [real gems]
Lush Nice/good
Gert/Gurt Really big
Mind [mid-sentence or used as a tag] You know what I mean?
Proper ['PrAprR] Good or 'decent'
They [kiddies] Those [kiddies]
Like [used in mid-sentence]
Laters See you later/goodbye
Babys/Babs/Bab Baby/affectionate term
Kiddie Teenager or youth
Me/My lover Mate/pal/dear
She's [got a nice finish] It goes all right
Scrage To scratch yourself
Hard 'en Usually a young person with an attitude
Babba Baby
Coopie down Crouch down
Slider Playground slide
Keener 'swot', or someone who works too hard
NeveR [emphasis on R] Never
AlaRm [mid-word emphasis on R] Alarm
Right [initial emphasis on R] Right
Rising intonation - using statements so they sound like questions
DrawLing [L pronounced within a word] Drawing
Area L [Bristol L specific to Area] Area
IdeaL [Bristol L specific to Idea] Idea
Funera [omission of L] Funeral
wURs [different vowel & R pronunciation] Worse
'ave, 'im [Silent initial H] Have, Him
Bath, Glass ['a' as in sat] Bath, Glass
(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:20, Reply)
Haven't you got some hamster based flirting to do with Dozer rather than being inaccurate online?
(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:26, Reply)
(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:26, Reply)
i've got a date lined up. if you're good, i'll tell you about that, then you can mock me for a real life thing, not a fictitious pant drop over dozer.
(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:28, Reply)
Particularly after you made a pass at me in the taxi the other week. You must learn: not only are you unattractive, but I am married & faithful.
Your lack of social grace does you no favours.
(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:33, Reply)
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(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:39, Reply)
because battered couldn't reach down your top.
(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:45, Reply)
that's what happened.
it explains why the tenner fell out of my shoe later on.
(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:46, Reply)
So he did get the tenner in your cleavage then.
(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:47, Reply)
it's battered whose shoes are built up to chest height, not me
(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:51, Reply)
As well as being considerably more intelligent.
(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:53, Reply)
and you only "think" you're taller than me?
(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:55, Reply)
(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:56, Reply)
People would rather shit in a bed with you than fuck you in it.
(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:58, Reply)
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(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:25, Reply)
And people wonder why all my friends are men...
(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:34, Reply)
On account of bathrooms and barbecues.
Apparently, in the north you go outside to shit and you only ever prepare food in the 'parlour'.
(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:45, Reply)
and you know she's from further oop north than i am, right?
heh.
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(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:52, Reply)
Of interestingly shaped coal. She'll be none the wiser.
(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:59, Reply)
De har har.
He's from Kent originally, so it's a weird mixture of east coast / west coast.
(, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 20:26, Reply)
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