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Our local dialect is only feckin whopper


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I know there was a slang thread at some point, I found it deeply amusing. please post yizzer local slang, and give a vague location.

 

I would claim however, that our slang could kick your slang's arse. Dublin, G'wan de lads.

 

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Scorpy Hole

 

An irritable person.

 

 

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The Tide Wouldn't Take Her/him Out

 

An ugly person with no chance of getting a date

 

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Mad Scone

 

Someone who is cool

 

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Me Back Teeth Are Floating

 

I need to go to the loo

 

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Neck Like A Jockey's Bollox

 

To have some nerve

 

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go on so, post 'em

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Traditional Boston accents are non-rhotic

The phoneme "R" doesnt appear at the end of a syllable or immediately before a consonant

 

In the most traditional Boston accents, the R becomes a low back vowel

"Corn" is pronounced the same or almost the same as con or cawn

 

From Wikipedia

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Traditional Boston accents are non-rhotic

The phoneme "R" doesnt appear at the end of a syllable or immediately before a consonant

 

In the most traditional Boston accents, the R becomes a low back vowel

"Corn" is pronounced the same or almost the same as con or cawn

 

From Wikipedia

 

haha... zoes gets all technical with his explanation of the boston accent...

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