for 4get, lotty, shaney and all the other Nor'folk :)

[redcrx]

Just found my Norfolk phrase book and thought I'd share lol

Ah u gorn near thuh Puust Orfice? - Are you going near the Post Office?

Aircal - Small town half-way between Naaridge and Gt.Yaarmuuth on the A47

Angla Swear - (Anglia Square) A masterpiece of 1960's urban architecture of unparalleled hideousness located just 'nuuth on the Maglen Street fly-ovah'. This unbelievably bleak edifice of concrete and rusting steel narrowly missed out on the prize for 'best urban regeneration project' by 137 places. One day in the future it will fall down but unfortunately none of us will be around to witness that happy event

Ar yer orrite, booy - Good Morning

Ar yer orrite, booy - Good Afternoon

Ar yer orrite, booy - Good Evening

Ass a rum ol' jarb un't it booy? - It's a strange situation

Ass roight hent ut? - 'I believe that to be correct.' A statement posed as a question; a conversational technique employed over wide ranging areas of Eest Angular sic

Assa bit black ova Will's medder, hent et? - Take a look at those threatening black clouds. I think it might rain.

Assa jook - I’m just kidding

Awld Yares Noight - New Year's Eve

Bare - Sold by the pint in Shicagoo’s

Bisha Barnabee - A Ladybird

Blast Bor, yow git a ding-a-tha-lug - I’m going to hit you now

Boats - National chemist chain (Boots) - see Foo too/Fota

Boost - To brag about one's achievements

Boots - Vessels used on river and sea e.g. at Loose-tarfed (Not to be confused with 'Boots the Chemists')

Booy - boy/man

Bulcunee - A bit that jut outer upstairs so yer can goo outside.

Buth arnhem - Both of them

[rinkins]

Is this a similar book to "Sloightly on the huh" red?

[redcrx]

we moved there when i was 5 and yet i have more of my mums Yorkshire accent than a Norfolk one. I have never lived oop north though lol

[LoftyLottie]

'Yuull git rongg!' Must be the most common thing ever said to Norfolk kids :o)

[LoftyLottie]

Son went to school in Whymundimundimundium

[redcrx]

haha, rinkins, no its an old email, not sure if it came from a book or some bored staff at Norwich union lol

the suffolk one is probably hard for me to understand :)

[LoftyLottie]

Jossstick, I worked in a call centre and talked to people with all sorts of british accents and loads of foreign accents and the only ones that really foxed me were Glaswegians!!!

[redcrx]

lol that bit always make me laugh, no-one outside of Norfolk can ever pronounce it

[rinkins]

You mean "wind'um"

[4getmenot]

No no more interviews. And loftie now you can tell everyone redcrx learnt you it lol

[LoftyLottie]

Except for rinkins, Red!!

[redcrx]

lol thats the one rinkins, i get lorry driver in from the midlands who need to find it and its quite amusing watching them stutter over wimumdimumimumimum lol

[LoftyLottie]

Will do 4get. Also true Norfolk folks never use the right tense or the correct grammar.

[rinkins]

I ain't that far away though lotti lol

[LoftyLottie]

Don't tell me Rinkins, you live in Wimundimundimundi...................... ?

[rinkins]

lol

[4getmenot]

or wisbek?

[LoftyLottie]

Lovely thread Red. Thanks. Oi hatta larf. Must goo now, Poota off.

[shaneystar2]

Ahem ..Excusay moi ...I only speak received pronunciation ..as in ...
Hev yew gotta loight, bor?

I lost my Norfolk accent years ago :)
Ackshally I speak quaite naicely dawnt oi Lofty .))

[LoftyLottie]

Oh yes Shaney. When you speak to me I feel I should call you maam and curtsey!! ;o)