Dinner or Tea
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Less said:
Stop moaning and go and get a spare bog-roll.
Being a southerner I was always taught breafast, lunch and dinner, but now I am up North I have got used to the term 'tea' but really that means tea & stickies on the lawn dahling! cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut awff! but now I get a butty! oh yes & the brew thing was totally weird to me.........as was gravy on chips? whats all that about? and the fact that if you went into a chip shop up here you didn't have to specify what fish you wanted it was just 'fish'!
When I was at home it was breakfast, dinner and tea. When I moved out of home it changed to breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Lavatory is toilet, or sometimes the bog, and any terms you can think of if misheard, ie eh? what? or an expressive grunt sometimes does the trick!
Tea is the term for the warm brown stuff wot I drink!
Lavatory is toilet, or sometimes the bog, and any terms you can think of if misheard, ie eh? what? or an expressive grunt sometimes does the trick!
Tea is the term for the warm brown stuff wot I drink!
SPUGGIE J said:
Hate to resorrect an old thread .. seems self-indulgent, however, my jaw dropped today when son, 'in a public place', announced that he must visit the bathroom !! Aaagh are the Yanks coming or summat ?? Preferred when he said was going for a slash (am I allowed that word ?)
What's wrong with "Pardon?" eh?
Being married to a Southerner doesn't half confuse life. We always had breakfast dinner and tea but now we don't have any tea and eat later and it's called dinner.
According to me teacakes are a lighter version of muffins. According to him teacakes are actually little cakes with icing on or summat and according to my girls muffins are what I used to call buns only bigger. To me a sausage roll is a thing made with puff pastry. To him it's a sandwich made with a bread roll and sausages.
What's wrong with chips and gravy? He was amazed by that too. They don't have meat pies down there but they do have a weird plastic sausage thing on sale in all the chip shops.
What is it with southern kebabs with all the salad on top so it falls out? Surely it's better on the bottom where the meat can hold it in and where all the meat juices flow down over it and flavour it? I've noticed that Toppings do southern kebabs. Guess where Busman buys his kebabs?!
Being married to a Southerner doesn't half confuse life. We always had breakfast dinner and tea but now we don't have any tea and eat later and it's called dinner.
According to me teacakes are a lighter version of muffins. According to him teacakes are actually little cakes with icing on or summat and according to my girls muffins are what I used to call buns only bigger. To me a sausage roll is a thing made with puff pastry. To him it's a sandwich made with a bread roll and sausages.
What's wrong with chips and gravy? He was amazed by that too. They don't have meat pies down there but they do have a weird plastic sausage thing on sale in all the chip shops.
What is it with southern kebabs with all the salad on top so it falls out? Surely it's better on the bottom where the meat can hold it in and where all the meat juices flow down over it and flavour it? I've noticed that Toppings do southern kebabs. Guess where Busman buys his kebabs?!
id hate to ever lose my northern 'twangs'; im extremely proud of where ive grown up and the way i talk; and i am now putting it into fuller practise with the uprise in people my age becoming more posh ??! whats up with that?!! i didnt know we were being invaded by the army of southern shandy boys drinking lager tops with painted toes.....
how very strange...
how very strange...
When all is said and done, does it really matter? Say what you feel like. Speak naturally as long as you can make yourself understood.
I blame Nancy Mitford, myself, with her pronouncements about U and None-U speech. The socially aspirant suddenly became so very careful about what they said, in case they betrayed their humble origins. The funny thing is Nancy admitted, later, that she was just pulling everyone's leg.
I blame Nancy Mitford, myself, with her pronouncements about U and None-U speech. The socially aspirant suddenly became so very careful about what they said, in case they betrayed their humble origins. The funny thing is Nancy admitted, later, that she was just pulling everyone's leg.