Dialect Words in Mainstream English

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Then he fell in with that other scally, Jimmy Corkhill, and it wasn't long says Gordon. ... Where the gobshite manager in Doyle's book claims ` the revolution.


Dialect Words in Mainstream English: Concordance lines from Bank of English Corpus (including would of/should of) Ramesh Krishnamurthy 1997 NORTHEAST ENGLAND CANNY: esp `canny Scots'; it is a nickname of the Chancellor Kenneth Clarke: steady Eddie to the Chancellor's windfall tax on the utilities (which hijack i took no risks with inflation.

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PET: `You're saying it's total anarchy up there, pet, and I can't believe it." `No," she said. `No, no.' Now, pet," said Jemima in gentler tones. `You go with Mary. You're going to have some nice milk.'

SCOTTISH DREICH: A still, grey gloom curtained Carnoustie yesterday morning. There was not even a suspicion of a wind, nor much in the way of light. It was, in a word, dreich, whatever that may mean; it was much used by the locals yesterday. [Guardian 13/7/95] The weather may be dreich at times and the natives hard to understand, but to the huddled masses keen to escape the overcrowded south and all its ills, Scotland is the land of milk and honey. [Times, 10/12/95] CRABBIT: a crabbit old woman not very wise... ...the thought of her returning to that crabbit old fella in the house out there was a personal insult to his own manhood. Not that he could blame her from what he could remember of the old boy. Crabbit old fella he had been. Henry stared at the middle-aged woman in front of him, who was anything but old and crabbit-looking.

LIVERPOOL/NORTHERN/MIDLANDS OUR KID ...make sure that it was safe for `our kid", `George" or `Horace"... `How are you supposed to catch fish in that, our kid?' I heard one West Midlander ask. So, one Christmas it was, we was having a party in our kid's house and... SCALLY rhyme vocal style which captures the scally feel of the whole movement. t want to do that again'. Then the scally baggy crew The Farm asked him to

In the mid-Eighties, Barry was a scally - like Essex man, only minus the stadium - rock. The could be a scally Eagels or a half-hour run through And Away local wagger and swaggering scally-to-be, the young Mr Parrish with has long been associated with a scally culture which was always s massive contribution to football/scally culture, THE FARM were suddenly Sorry la's: The Farm have hijacked scally culture--and you can't have it Charles seemed to live up to his scally from the alley persona. In reality also had a reputation for being a `scally".

Laura studied English and Tuesday, but the Scouser who put the scally in wag is making a career out of

Then he fell in with that other scally, Jimmy Corkhill, and it wasn't long says Gordon.

He's not exactly a `scally", but there's more than a small DIVVY (= `idiot') So don't be a divvy, get yourself down to the NEC this weekend and you could meet some of the biggest names in soccer... Just leave it like. You know. Don't be a divvy. You know what I mean. Hughie says he thinks Prince Philip is a `divvy".

IRISH CRAIC: see separate sheet GOBSHITE has earned him the epithet `gobshite" in many quarters, while Paddy for every shout of `Jayzus, what a gobshite," you'll hear two of `wha" a Transport refused to have the word `gobshite' on their illustrious walls. I

be # The Mother, The Planner, The phon condemning another instance of pressure It also gave us a glorious medial issue o Just four laughs # Perhaps it was humour on Midweek, I now cherish the word The suspect racial tone. Where the claims ` the revolution. I'm joking, you fiend, pregnant sister and sundry riffs.