Sayings

[cosmolinguist]

The first thing I heard anyone say when I got to Exeter -- anyone who wasn't a staff member of either the train station I wad coming from or the hotel I was going to -- was "all right my lover!" In exactly the accent that I've always heard in parodies of that.

It could not have been more stereotypical. I love it when these things happen. It's like that one time when I actually heard someone from Yorkshire say "there's nowt as queer as folk."

Comments

[otter]

How fun :)

[sfred]

<3

[cmcmck]

The local phrase or saying that amuses me is the greeting between male friends: 'Ay oop Jockey' while those of us of the female persuasion are 'dook' or 'lovely' (the last one's a Welsh border thing).

[annofowlshire]

I remember I was calling a taxi from a train station in Devon and the driver saying that to me and I just chuckled. "Ow bist?" (How are you?) is a common saying here from the generational Foresters. They don't usually speak Forest at us blow-ins but it's always fun when they do.