Vocal Voices

Coming from the North it is a word that has been with me all my life. It is used (misused) in many ways such as 'he's proper thick', 'she's proper friendly', 'you should try ..... it's proper good' and so on.

Imagine my shock when I saw a picture for an article of a sign in a shop saying "Welcome back, we've proper missed you xxx" It looked so odd....

Another word is "cheers". It is used instead of 'hello', 'goodbye', 'thanks / thank you', 'see you later'.

It all got me wondering if other parts of the country had similar ubiquitous words or phrases.

"Bostin" the Brummies say.
Does it mean great?

cromwell wrote:"Bostin" the Brummies say.
Does it mean great?

Yow con watch it if the Dudley lot ‘ear yow’m callin’ em Brummies
But yeah, it means something is really good. Although if something is bost then it’s broken.

Donnies. What you wash while singing happy birthday twice.

Piece. A sandwich.

Not sure if I read it on this forum or another one but apparently some independent Black Country toy shops market themselves as "Toys Am We"

Living for many years in Somerset, I picked up a lot of the dialect and still use it (it confuses the hell out of our Dorset neighbours )
The most obvious one, I guess, is "where's it to?" for "where is it"? And of course a "gurt big" apple cake ...

I've just thought of another, peculiar to West Yorks as far as I know.
"Maunjy".
Meaning sort of self pitying and miserable. A fun sponge.
In Sheffield their variant is "mardy".

TheOstrich wrote:The most obvious one, I guess, is "where's it to?" for "where is it"?

Mick says that, so it's also a Gloucester saying

Where to you going? The Welsh say that

Lots of Welsh blood in Gloucester, including Mick's, so I'm not surprised.