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Old 27-11-2015, 06:02 PM #1
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and if so what are they?


Wench - It means girl/woman.. (this is on the list for Birmingham words/phases but it's now exclusive to Brum)
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Mardy, jitty and.... err, that's about it

(pretty sure 'wench' isn't exclusive to Birmingham)
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(pretty sure 'wench' isn't exclusive to Birmingham)
Mainly Dudley, but i'm sure others use it. but it's still a slang used where I'm from.

if you type in birmingham slang also Wench will come up.
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I grew up in Newcastle, there's loads

Tab - cigarette - "h'ya man, gizz'a tab like"
Chav (I know everyone says it but in newc it's pronounced charv or charver) - "that charver nicked all me tabs like"
Chud - chewing gum

and more I can't think of right now
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Wench is Shakespearean
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There's hunners a Scottish slang
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Wench is Shakespearean
I know.. but it's a slang in Dudley(black country) as well.
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Bonk is a Birmingham word? Maybe I'm just use to it as I hear it everyday but I'm surprised that nobody else uses that word lol.
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There's hunners a Scottish slang
The best slang. mwi is my favourite
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Bonk is a Birmingham word? Maybe I'm just use to it as I hear it everyday but I'm surprised that nobody else uses that word lol.
I never heard anyone use bonk around here
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Bonk used to mean tupping here :/
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The best slang. mwi is my favourite
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this video is a really cheesy advertisement... but it uses every slang term from my area of Canada in it... with subtitles... so I will just post it for convenience sake.

Youtube video
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In Pittsburgh we have our own dialect (well, more like all of Western Pennsylvania). You can look it up here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wester...lvania_English

By the way, its not soda; its pop.
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Yeah, never pronounce H and you're halfway there with the accent.

bray- hit
caling- talking
blob- not show up
bob in- call in briefly
jammy- lucky
lav- toilet
jimjams- pjs
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Yeah, never pronounce H and you're halfway there with the accent.

bray- hit
caling- talking
blob- not show up
bob in- call in briefly
jammy- lucky
lav- toilet
jimjams- pjs
Where do you live? I recognise a couple o' those
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When my partner was working at this firm in France, he taught this French guy some useful English words. He didn't tell the guy it was Cockney rhyming slang though. We all met up one evening for a drink and he proudly came up to me and asked me if we could 'bubble and squeak' in English!

I didn't have the heart to tell him but Steve did get a slap from me later!
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Im a Geordie we speak a diff language
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we call chewing gum 'chewy' but I think everywhere does that idk
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Where do you live? I recognise a couple o' those
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California is mostly known for skater/surfer slang... "dude" "bro" "awesome" etc...
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