Language ar' lad! in Voices Windward

Buzzfeed essentially just impled that everyone in Manchester is a boozey, violent skumbag but they do it in a funny way, slightly spiced with accurate renditions of local slang and in our self-deprecatory we mime “ho ho, they got our number eh lad?…

Article is [ - HERE - ]

Lighten up, have a laugh, more laddite bullshit from clickbait central.

… alas…

Saying this, being a proud Mancunian who is quite partial to vocal history, the importance of localisation and the nature of language, class and social history I’ll share a few with you…

• Mither=Bother
• Ginnel=Alley
• Keks=Trousers
• Mint=Great
• Strop=Tantrum
• Top one=Excellent
• Dibble=Police
• Bessies=Best friends
• Buzzin’=Ecstatic
• Mingin’=Unpleasant
• My gaff=My house
• Ee are=Excuse me?
• That is bobbins=That is not very good
• You don’t get owt for nowt=You cannot get something for nothing
• Daft Apeth = foolish/ muppet
• Left me standing like piffy on rock a bun = left me on my tod
  On Tod = alone
• Couldn’t stop a pig in a ginnel = Bandy legged
• Fettled = fixed
• with Pea Wet = A chippie thing where you have peas served with the water they were cooked in.
• Chippie = The amazin’s local delicacy that you don’t find below Northampton except a curious black hole of nom in Newport.
• Give your ‘ead a wobble = Rethink it.
• Put wood int’ ‘ole = Close the door
• Scrikin’ = Crying

We also have our own Rhyming Slang such as
Newtons - Newton Heath - Teeth
Salfords - Salford Docks - Socks

I really do see these as valuable assets of local culture and working class heritage hat we are casting off at a reckless pace in favour of a common babel… the Uk is special for the shear abundance of local dialects, slang tongues and patters in such a small area.

These continue to evolve in oppressed communities whether held together by race, creed, sexuality or cultural choice and we should prize these anarchistic vocal trinkets and stand against the imposition of a universal tongue and manner that at best should only ever be used as a bridge of communication.

Ya’ Know what I’m sayin’ mate?