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18-07-2021, 11:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Besoeker ->
Yes, true. But sometimes not so short. I think the first spell was about four months - around 1968 so Apartheid was in force. Forgive my diversion.
I didn’t realise it was for such long periods Visitor
I wasn’t even a thought in 1968
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I remember my dad telling me not to pay with myself as I'd go blind .

I said. "I'm over here dad"
As usual, that’s hilarious Judd
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18-07-2021, 11:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Donkeyman ->
Hah!
I know the meaning Minxy !
And l think we can take it !!l
This is the over fifties forum after all ??

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Soutie : pronounced so-tea

Derogatory term used to describe British people in South Africa. Usually a male. Imagine a world map and a guy with one foot in South Africa and the other foot in Britain with the middle bits dangling about in the sea which is salt (sout) water.


Rooinek. pronounced Roy-neck

Derogatory term used to describe the British who are not accustomed to the African heat so their delicate skins on the back of their delicate necks turn red in the African sun (sunburn) because they are not tough enough
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19-07-2021, 06:01 AM
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There are a few phrases I can think of (this early in the morning) from my EastEnd days, phrases that some of my family still use.

Gone home - worn out (as in, that T shirt has gone home so I'll throw it away).

Out the window (out the winda) well that's that idea out the winda.

Bread & Pullit - A sandwich with nothing in it.
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19-07-2021, 07:19 AM
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Originally Posted by swimfeeders ->
Hi

We English have much to learn from other languages.

We are not very good at them.

I did try last time I was in Holland.

The Dutch are lovely and very funny.
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Thank you for trying, but please do not murder my language.
Yeah, murdering the English language is a job for us Yanks. We do a spectacular job of it unfortunately.
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19-07-2021, 04:21 PM
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Re: UK terminology/lingo

Originally Posted by Longdogs ->
There are a few phrases I can think of (this early in the morning) from my EastEnd days, phrases that some of my family still use.

Gone home - worn out (as in, that T shirt has gone home so I'll throw it away).

Out the window (out the winda) well that's that idea out the winda.

Bread & Pullit - A sandwich with nothing in it.
We Black Country folk use those sayings too.

My fave BC saying: "'Er's gorra voice loike a glead under the doo'er" meaning "her voice is like squeaky chalk on a blackboard." (A glead is a burning piece of anthracite or coke.)
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19-07-2021, 10:21 PM
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Soutie : pronounced so-tea

Derogatory term used to describe British people in South Africa. Usually a male. Imagine a world map and a guy with one foot in South Africa and the other foot in Britain with the middle bits dangling about in the sea which is salt (sout) water.


Rooinek. pronounced Roy-neck

Derogatory term used to describe the British who are not accustomed to the African heat so their delicate skins on the back of their delicate necks turn red in the African sun (sunburn) because they are not tough enough
You forgot to mention that the reason the backs of their necks
went red was because they spent so much time lying face down
in the dirt to escape the Mauser bullets coming their way !!
The scotch soldiers had the added problem of the backs of their
knees going red also !!🤗🤗

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Yeah, murdering the English language is a job for us Yanks. We do a spectacular job of it unfortunately.
Ah, the northerners.............Yanks.
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19-07-2021, 10:50 PM
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You forgot to mention that the reason the backs of their necks
went red was because they spent so much time lying face down
in the dirt to escape the Mauser bullets coming their way !!
The scotch soldiers had the added problem of the backs of their
knees going red also !!🤗🤗

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I was trying not to give them a history lesson DK but you certainly know your SA History
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Originally Posted by DianneWoollie ->
My late Dad was a cockney but came from a middle class family.
To Minx... being a cockney in truth is born within the sound of Bow Bells..the Church Bells of Bow an area, you just had to be within the distance of hearing them. So how you speak as a cockney is not all the same for sure.

copied and pasted a few for you Minx..
"Apples and pears" (stairs) ...
"Army and navy" (gravy) ...
"Basin of gravy" (baby) ...
"Bees and honey" (money) ...
"Borrow and beg" (egg) ...
"Bottle and stopper" (copper) ...
"Box of toys" (noise) ...
"Can't keep still" (treadmill)
just slang words....

My Husband is from the East End of London, Walthamstow to be exact as were his French and British Ancestors, but he is not a cockney. He is an Ancestor of Huguenots, a strict religious protestant group from France.

He does speak differently from me though. I speak with a South London accent..Not easy is it Minx..same in France...we have locals that actually cannot communicate with each other as there dialect is so so different.
I was born and raised in Walthamstow!! Left there in Oct 2019 to follow my younger sister to Suffolk, the seaside town of Lowestoft.

Grew up by Billet Road, then later moved to off Higham Hill.
 
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