He called him/her/me

Its a regional dialect thing. prevalent in certain parts of the North West. Ive also seen on here certain people saying "he/she let on to me" which i had no idea what that meant, and apparently it means "he / she acknowledged me". weird eh.

Oh, I see. Thank you.

It's working it's way southwards then because I've heard it loads recently. Make it stop, please ?

Not sure I've understood your post correctly. Do you mean people saying 'He called me an idiot?' If so, this might be regional - we've always said that in our family.

We didn't have a phone when we were younger so would never have said 'he called me' to do with the phone, but if we did have to make a phone call we would probably have said 'I gave her a ring', 'I spoke to her on the phone', 'I'll give her a call'

I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean someone saying something like:

"And then she called me. I can't believe it What a cow."

when they mean

"And then she called me a bitch. I can't believe it. What a cow."

If that is what you mean I have never heard it ?

I haven't noticed yours HH but "let on to someone" I've heard lots IRL.

That's exactly what I mean, Flowery. It's really horrid ?

I've never heard it either. Nor have I heard 'he let on to me' (I would assume this to mean 'he told me')Do I really live that sheltered a life?

It's a very usual thing to say in Manchester. It's better than 'dissed' IMO!

How odd. How are you supposed to know that it's a bad thing- could be "she called me a lovely person"? Or is it like calling people in poker?

I didn't realise these phrases were unusual to some, I hear them all the time around here. I don't really use the first phrase, but will use the 'letting on' phrase.

'I saw X in the shop the other day but didn't let on to her'

I've never heard it either, how odd. It's like the sentence hasn't quite finished.

I've heard 'let on to me' but I thought it meant that someone had let something slip, like giving away a secret.

I love the expression "diss". Our language is the richer for it. LOML and I use it all the time and it always makes us laugh.

This "call" thing is just bizarre, and I have never heard it. Phew.

Yes, we'd use the second phrase too - just in the way you've said. We wouldn't for example say 'don't let on to your sister' (that would be 'don't tell your sister') but would quite happily say 'well, this happened. I didn't let on to mum about it'.

I grew up in Lincolnshire but it's hard to pinpoint my regional phrases as my mum was from London and my dad was a Yorkshire man.

KN, I think people that use the phrase 'he/she called me' generally mean it was an insult.

Sun, I know what you mean about the sentence thing, I want to say "called you what? WHAT?" ?

Re: Let on to me - I've heard it the same way Sunset has, as if someone told another person something. Not that you did or didn't acknowledge a person in the street.

because people saying it usually do so in the coarse and harsh tones of the fishwife.

usually included in the sentence will be 'she came to my door' too. this seems to be a necessary element in the insult calling.

The first phrase I'm not sure if I know because I was brought up in the North West, or if I hear it regularly in Newcastle. It's definitely a Northern thing.

There are any many geordie phrases I have fought to keep out of my vocabulary, but at the weekend I told my nephew he would get wronged if he didn't stop playing with his food. I need to move before it gets any worse, right? ?

WTF? "She came to my door and called me"? That makes no sense at all ?

Yes, yes! I've heard that on the tv, it's just so wrong! ?

i dunno. it seems every other ranting female i listen to on 999 complaining about a row with their neighbour/sister/partner's ex/son's girlfriend's mum seems to say 'she came to my door'. as if the insult is more intensified by the fact someone got off their arse to do so, rather than just send a text...

having said that we don't really use the 'called me' thing in yorkshire, althouh i have heard of the phrase

So do they mean it literally then? I don't understaaaaaaand ?

I was in Newcastle this weekend. It's a different world up there.

I live in Liverpool and have never heard the phrase used IRL, I have however, heard it many a time on the Jeremy Kyle show, which speaks volumes really

I'm in Liverpool too and have never heard "called me" but "let on" is normal in Merseyside/Lancs/Cheshire/Manchester.

'I believe X has been slagging me off'

'I believe X has been calling me'

Please tell me you know the top phrase and that it isn't a regional thing too!

<soothes> its ok soapy. you doesn't matter. i take it you're not the type of person to have the type of neighbour who would threaten to kill you as a child in your garden put a mouse down their daughter's back and scared her?* if not than i don't think you'll ever be in the situation where you would need to say it

*a genuine complaint received on 999 on saturday, except the circs slightly altered

The top phrase is very common, don't worry, the 2nd phrase is the sort of thing I'm talking about. But here it would mean that someone has been, well, calling you. On the phone ?

HH :

'I believe X rang?' ?

waaaaaahhhhhh ? <dials 999>

'i need the police. whats happened? someone on an interweb forum has threatened to kill me! hello...hello...?' <dialling tone>

WE seem to have escaped this in scotland (so far). Of course, we have a host of other horrific colloqialisms to tolerate as it is. ?

I'm in Yorkshire and have never heard 'call me' used in that context. I have heard 'let on' though.

I've also lived in Derby and Wolverhampton and there are a few local expressions that I found hysterical. For example H's friends (from Derby) use 'he offered me outside' when talking about an arguement. I spent most of one New Year's eve giggling to myself about that one

"Are you offering me outside?"

"Yeah, I'm offering you outside!"

I have heard "called" - but usually only from Aisleyne from BB types who then go on about knowing oneself.

In NI, "letting on" has loads of meanings. "Never let on to yourself" - don't wory about it ; "I never let on I saw her" - I pretended not to see her ; " I was letting on to boak when my ma made me my dinner, I was only raking, but she was raging" - I feigned vomitting when my mother presented me with my meal. It was a harmless practical joke, but she didn't see the funny side". Etc

Sorry, posted too soon - we also know the perils of going to someone's door. It's like <pans> pissing on their kids on Christmas morning </pans> it's that disrespectful.

I've never heard 'called me' or 'let on to' IRL although I am aware of the second one.

My favourite thing recently was when the husband of a friend received an abusive call late one evening from a (clearly very bored) man with one of those accents that is put on by white people to make them sound more 'street'.

He said 'You've been messin wiv me yard innit, I'm gonna come up in ya yard cuz I know where ya live, what's your address?'

It took me a significant period of time to stop loling at that little story (especially as it was relayed to me "in character")