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(Claire)
Beginner July 2011

Off the back of Footlongs post......

(Claire), 18 October, 2013 at 12:29 Posted on Off Topic Posts 0 52

What are your speaking Faux Pas?

For me it's the "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"

I often say "I maise well" instead of "I might as well"

and I occasionally say "nowt" ?

There are lots more but I can't think off the top of my head.

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Latest activity by Erin8, 20 October, 2013 at 21:41
  • Cat In A Teacup
    Beginner August 2015
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    I say 'tuth' instead of tooth. I try to correct myself, I hate it!

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  • ForTheLoveOfMrsBrown
    Beginner January 2012
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    Me too, and "owt". Although having picked it up from Boy, I usually only say with him and his family. Not in polite company ?

    Last week, someone corrected me on incorrect usage of that/which. You can imagine how that went down...

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  • (Claire)
    Beginner July 2011
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    Nooooooooo! Footers I'm shocked, I never had you down as a "nowt" girl! I don't feel so embarrassed about it now! ?

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  • Pompey
    Beginner June 2012
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    I say sospan instead of saucepan thanks to a Welsh Gramps.

    I don't like the thing people from Portsmouth do as an exclaimation of surprise/shock. So someone would say something like, 'So Pompey's H left her.' and the reply is, 'Weeeee'.

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  • ForTheLoveOfMrsBrown
    Beginner January 2012
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    He he. I've never had a very strong accent of my own, so am one of those annoying people who's accent changes depending on who they are talking to and how they want to position themselves in the social hierarchy. It's mostly generic, occasionally uber-posh, sometimes uber-rough.

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  • (Claire)
    Beginner July 2011
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    I really don't get that!

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  • TheRealTricks
    Beginner January 2012
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    I say "shut up" if someone tells me something shocking.

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  • tayto
    Beginner May 2013
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    I use 'gotten' which drives me nuts - picked it up off my American colleagues I think! Also trying to fix this one too!

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  • venart
    Beginner June 2013
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    I say a lot of things Brits would consider incorrect. One thing that threw me is that in the UK it's 'in regard of' instead of 'in regard to.'

    Tricks, I've gone from saying 'shut up!' to saying 'shut the front door!' Not sure why, I think I got it from a roommate a few years ago. Difficult to stop now.

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  • SallyLou
    Beginner August 2014
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    I've got a Yorkshire accent, it's not particularly strong but on some words it is the true Yorkshire way of saying them. I tend to slip into a really broad accent around other people with strong accents.

    Geeeeoooooorr (give over/stop that/desist), is probably one I use far too often though.

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  • *Bea*
    Beginner October 2011
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    I say really a lot when people are telling me something. It is bad I need to stop. I've also been caught saying tuth this last month to my boy I blame grandparents for that though.

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  • Ali_G
    Beginner October 2012
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    This!

    Though, not in the Essex "shatttttuuuuuuuupppppp" way. More SHUT UP a la Princess Diaries.

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  • Sange!
    Beginner January 1997
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    Mine are due to regional accent, so not faux pas; I think they're different?

    I do the 'Eeeeeee' thing; nowt, use of 'man' at the end of a sentence, etc. None of which will be stopping anytime soon!

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  • Panjita
    Beginner May 2011
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    I'm also a nowt/owt person.

    When I am in my hometown I speak much more sloppily. I'm from Stoke and we often just miss whole words out of sentences e.g. "I'd love to learn to sing" would become "I'd love learn sing". Also can't = conner, won't = wunner, I'm not = I onner... I could go on! I try not to do it when I'm with my Brummie lot because no one can understand me. I've also, to my shame stopped pronouncing Book like Boot with a K replacing the T (exactly how it is effing spelt!) and now say Buck like the rest of the country (unless I'm in Stoke and then it's Bewk - otherwise people will think I am trying to be posh!). TBH I just got sick of

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  • Rod
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    I do this sometimes - its the rudegirl in me coming out and I have been known to say 'allow it'.. yuk

    I often say things like 'so I was like 'what' and he was like 'yeah' - i hate it but I do it!

    I also say shut up, or 'Oh Em Gee' or Oh Em Eff Gee but generally speaking thats in a jokey way haha!

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  • M
    Beginner August 2014
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    When I was at school there were posters on the buses advertising free bus travel for those seeking a job. It was a caricature of a punk (well an 80's one) with spikey orange hair, and the caption said 'Get Out for Nowt'. We all peeled them off the buses for our bedroom walls because they were so funny! Some years later Allinsons' bread had their famous 'bread with Nowt taken Out' tag line, but the bus company had it at least five years earlier.

    After many years in the midlands/the south my accent is now generic flat (or slightly posh Northerner), but i do still say Aye (yes) and int (in the) when tired or riled.

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  • (Claire)
    Beginner July 2011
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    I say aye too! And Howay!

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  • Panjita
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    I like it when North Easterners say "wur" instead of "us".

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  • TheRealTricks
    Beginner January 2012
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    I have no idea what this means.

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  • ForTheLoveOfMrsBrown
    Beginner January 2012
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    Not a faux pas, but something that is definitely "me" to the point of it being common knowledge among friends and family...

    I always start a question by establishing the general knowledge base of the respondent in matters pertaining to the question I am about to pose, and wait for confirmation.

    So, my questions begin with "You know XYZ?"

    This is apparently acceptable when I introduce my question with "You know how Animal Farm is an allegory for the Russian Revolution?" but it becomes a source of great mirth and p*sstaking when I introduce my question with "You know trees?".

    Boy just looks at me gravely and says "No, I have no idea what the moon/water/wood/electricity is".

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  • *Funky*
    Beginner January 2001
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    As my OH is not English he often says things differently such as 'chips and fish' rather than "fish and chips" sometimes its rub off on me and I catch myself saying it too.

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  • H
    Beginner May 2014
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    Nowt, owt, t '..... all due to being born and brought up in the north. I now live in the south and the folk down here seem to love my regional accent and dialect. My mother always pulled me up on things like "I was sitting" vs. "I was sat" etc so I'm pretty ok with that but still never really know when to use who or whom.

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  • S
    Beginner October 2011
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    I say owt/nowt and summat. I have toned down my accent over the years though - but every once in a while I slip up - H grew up in Wales, and was totally baffled when I said to him once "Bin mon bin?". I also come out with t'other/t' and wi' (with).

    I drive H mad with how I say Book/look/cook - I rhyme them with duck. I also say aye but H does too so I get away with that!

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    Beginner May 2014
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    Haha my OH takes the p*** out of my duck, look, cook etc, as I do indeed over graaass, claaass instead of grass and class etc. I try to lapse into "summat" as I'm not surrounded by my own kind down here and I want to be understood Smiley smile

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    Another Gee-Ore here too. Nowt, owt. Orrate. (Alright?)

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  • ~Peanut~
    Beginner December 2012
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    I'm bad for saying 'like' in the same way as Rod when describing a conversation.

    H has a problem where sometimes he can't swallow food properly and it gets stuck, so he has to try and bring it back up. Instead of saying "i was sick" or "i need to be sick" he'll say "I went sick" or "i need to go sick". I've never heard anyone else say it like that before.

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  • SallyLou
    Beginner August 2014
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    I forgot about my Orrate usage, which is weird as I say it loads. I merge it with you as well so it's an Yor-rate?

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  • MrsOh
    Beginner May 2014
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    I don't really have any faux pas, although I do have a strange accent, originally from up north but moved around a lot. I still get really northern when I get angry and I actually say 'a' instead of 'I' and sometimes 'ma' instead of 'my'. for example - "a don't know what you mean".

    But it seems no one can place my accent, was asked if I came to this country to study in my first year at university (they thought I was Irish), I often get asked if I'm Welsh and recently got asked if I was American ?

    x

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  • *MM3*
    Beginner June 2014
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    I say words like "aye" & "naw" also, "och shoosh" etc..I'm Scottish though so i'm allowed right? ?

    An annoying one we use is "It's aw wan." I think it means it's all one..it's all the same, so if OH asks "do you want Chinese or chippy tonight? I'll say "it's aw wan" ..picked up from the mother and I get annoyed at myself using it ?

    I also use the word "sake" for disapproval or showing annoyance ? And I tend to annoy OH and family as if I hear any news whether it be bad or good I always respond with a "YOU'RE JOKING?" when I know they're not..just an automatic response ?

    Probably my daily vocabulary could be listed on here haha.

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  • TheRealTricks
    Beginner January 2012
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    WTaF?

    I am completely baffled by this northern talk.

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  • Meltdown
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    My worst one drive OH bonkers.

    When at the bar apparently i say "can I get a G&T please" He always says "No, the barmaid will GET it, you may HAVE one though"

    (I may or may not do it on purpose to wind him and the other self professed old farts in the pub up a bit)

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  • Kjay
    Beginner August 2013
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    Dunno

    Nowt / owt

    whatcha

    whatevs

    ain't gonna (instead of I am not going to or I will not)

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