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Topic: WANTED: BritSlang. |
Podge Dirkins
Initiate |
posted December 01, 1999 09:11 AM
 
Greetings all.
Looking for an exhaustive, well-written, and most importantly --
*funny* -- guide to the lexicon of British slang expressions.
Any suggestions?
Thankee sai,
Podge D
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Liquid
Operative |
posted December 01, 1999 11:04 AM
Pick up a copy of Trainspotting, by the great and fantastic Irvine
Welsh. There's a great glossary in the back for all the weird
cottish words we American's can't understand. And all the rest of
the pages are pretty good too.
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Twig the Wonder Kid
Operative |
posted December 01, 1999 08:37 PM
I remember as a kid being given a copy of the bible written in Black
Country which was extremely funny, but I haven't seen one in years
so I don't know whether it's still in print.
If anyone has seen one on the shelves of late let me know.
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 01, 1999 08:54 PM
You could try the Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, edited by Tony
Thorne and published in the UK by Bloomsbury.
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guvnor
Operative |
posted December 02, 1999 07:35 AM
If you're looking for Scottish slang, pick up a copy of 'The Bogie
Man' by Alan Grant in either comic or graphic novel form.
Despite being a good read, every issue comes with a McGlossary,
which is essential for figuring out what even the minor characters
are saying. (and you thought the Scissormen were hard to
understand!)
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ianjones
Myrmidon |
posted December 02, 1999 06:31 PM
The thing is there's no such thing as Britslang, this is a very
linguistically diverse island, with many non mutually intelligable
lexical sets. innit, hai?
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70sman
Operative |
posted December 02, 1999 07:18 PM
There are some great slang dictionaries on the net , where you can
spend many an hour laughing in an immature fashion at phrases such
as "buttfucking eygpt!" and "to beat (ones meat)".
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Chrysalis
Initiate |
posted December 02, 1999 10:59 PM
This is a really useful site - when I can't be bothered to explain
my Mancunian slang to all my American friends, I send them here.
http://www.peevish.u-net.com/slang/
Hope that helps!
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