Family Slang (1 Viewer)

[Scientician 0.8]

That's not Nordy-specific. Lots of my relatives say that, poor craytures.

In Norn Iron that'd be "craters", close to American "critters".

 

[Vinnie]

My family all call each other Snramsicle and there's a lot of us so it can get pretty confusing when we're all home. Also, we call the television 'Mr Shapes'.

 

[egg_]

Half of the conversation in my parents' house seems to consist of fragments of old jokes or catchphrases

"GO BACK!!"
"There'll be no pub"
"Twee sqwad caws"
"A Pirate!"

etc.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

For years and years my dad used to say, for no particular reason, "Hello mother, hello father, here i am in camp grenada". It was only when it was in a simpsons episode did i finally know where the hell he got that one from.

 

[MDR]

My mam used to say 'brillo pad' instead of 'brilliant'

 

[Goodbye]

Me Da whils't suppin tee: "Grand cupa tae Nora."

I've never figured out who Nora is.

 

[Unicron]

CDs are called 'tapes' in our house.

Same here. Also the remote control is "the buttoner". And a little snack is called "a pick".

Some guy on Six One just called a up and coming young go-getter an "on-trep-in-air".

 

[ernesto]

For years and years my dad used to say, for no particular reason, "Hello mother, hello father, here i am in camp grenada". It was only when it was in a simpsons episode did i finally know where the hell he got that one from.

ditto.

'get up the yard the smell of bengy' was another. except it wasnt the simpsons that explained that to me

and when someone is going on and on about something my Ma will go 'oh here we go, byker grove'. or something.

jesus, there's actually loads in my house.

 

[krystal]

We had a neighbour who was known by us as The Stick, becuase she had as much personaility as a stick. Poor woman.... We were very mean...

we had one we called AB = abnormal
there were also, variously

Mills and Boons lady - looked like a prossie
St Etienne Lady = looked like Bob Stanley
Morality Woman = holy joe
Banana Hands and Satsuma Eyes = local john of god who was, god love him, hideously deformed

Jesus, me and my mates are evil.

 

[krystal]

in work i always ask 'making tea?' when they all know i actually mean coffee

My mother calls switzerland, SWIZZERland

aungier st is also known to all my family, friends and associates as, awn-jee-aaaay street, after my mother mistakenly corrected the gas man in 1976, and never lived it down.

 

[Gambra]

Breakfast cereal - 'pop'
Orange Juice - 'ahdu' (more the younger members of the family)
any form of dvd, cd, vinyl or cassette I own - 'tape' (Mothers word)

all I can think of off the top of my head

 

[muffin]

We had a neighbour who we called 'The Bulldog' cos we thought he looked like one..poor guy..

 

[krystal]

We had a neighbour who we called 'The Bulldog' cos we thought he looked like one..poor guy..

ah look if you can't slag off yer neighbours, sure who can you slag?

 

[Anthony]

We called Tea "sweet leaf" after the sabbath song. We'd refer to coffee just by coughing the intro to "sweet leaf". Surprisingly we always seemed to know which beverage we were referring to.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

My da always says "holy sufferin' duck!". It's actually only dawning on me as I write that it's rhyming slang.
He calls the TV the "goggle box".

 

[cpr]

Anytime my dad was going out and I nosily asked where he was going he would say "out with a black lady"..I always wondered why my mam didn't object to this.

Also I used to drive my mam crackers when I was a kid cos I was really annoying (for those of you who know me now I was exactly like modern CPR- noisy/talkative/always up to something) so my mam used to put her hand to her forehead and say "I'm loosing my reason with you" Thus I presumed that your forehead was called yr reason!I was an idiot

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I'm just back from my uncle's funeral and wake. People in West Tyrone have a language onto themselves. One guy said, "Francie (my uncle) got off a few stops early but we're all on the same bus".

 

[Dixer]

"Yr as slow as God's horse"
"Am I the black man?"
"Up she flew and the cock bit her"
Not technically family slang but there's few enough times I've heard any of these outside my folks kitchen.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Not family slang, but it occurred to me now so I'll post it here: I like the way middle-aged and upwards Dubs say that someone ownded something, e.g. "CIE ownded those pitches until about 10 year ago".

 

[taubstumm]

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