This is a great dictionary for the rest of us...

http://www.fluentland.com/british-slang-words/

Poorly written rubbish, that misunderstands many of the phrases it's attempting to explain.

When I wright posts, I try and use words that every native English speaker will understand, no matter where they come from. In fairness, most of the phrases in the above article don't appear regularly in the threads on TV that I read. I do think it is interesting that you can take an educated guess where a poster comes from by the words and phrases they use when making a comment.

not bad but what is 38 all about, 41 should that be 'the' and not 'a', no mention of cockney rhyming slang.

Poorly written rubbish, that misunderstands many of the phrases it's attempting to explain.

Please write us an erudite revision, Soibiker.

When I wright posts, I try and use words that every native English speaker will understand, no matter where they come from. In fairness, most of the phrases in the above article don't appear regularly in the threads on TV that I read. I do think it is interesting that you can take an educated guess where a poster comes from by the words and phrases they use when making a comment.

When I write posts I try to use the correct spelling!

When I wright posts, I try and use words that every native English speaker will understand, no matter where they come from. In fairness, most of the phrases in the above article don't appear regularly in the threads on TV that I read. I do think it is interesting that you can take an educated guess where a poster comes from by the words and phrases they use when making a comment.

When I write posts I try to use the correct spelling!

wright you are!

When I wright posts, I try and use words that every native English speaker will understand,

Right, write, wright, so many choices and you have chosen to shape your posts out of wood.

Can you wright a post like this?

When I wright posts, I try and use words that every native English speaker will understand, no matter where they come from. In fairness, most of the phrases in the above article don't appear regularly in the threads on TV that I read....

I must be reading all the wrong threads--that send me searching for colloquial assistance...

I challenge a non-Brit, non-Aussie, non-Kiwi to translate! :-D

When I wright posts, I try and use words that every native English speaker will understand, no matter where they come from. In fairness, most of the phrases in the above article don't appear regularly in the threads on TV that I read. I do think it is interesting that you can take an educated guess where a poster comes from by the words and phrases they use when making a comment.

When I write posts I try to use the correct spelling!

wright you are!

Wright brothers were right...

Blimey! would yew bloody translate what in'er English?

When I wright posts, I try and use words that every native English speaker will understand, no matter where they come from. In fairness, most of the phrases in the above article don't appear regularly in the threads on TV that I read....

I must be reading all the wrong threads--that send me searching for colloquial assistance...

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I challenge a non-Brit, non-Aussie, non-Kiwi to translate! :-D

I came across that term a few weeks ago. Had to ask the guy what the heck "dobbing" was! LOL Still not 100% sure....

Blimey! would yew bloody translate what in'er English?

Kannscht du Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch schwetzer?

When I wright posts, I try and use words that every native English speaker will understand, no matter where they come from. In fairness, most of the phrases in the above article don't appear regularly in the threads on TV that I read. I do think it is interesting that you can take an educated guess where a poster comes from by the words and phrases they use when making a comment.

When I write posts I try to use the correct spelling!

Sorrey, Knot all of us are perfict spellors....

not bad but what is 38 all about, 41 should that be 'the' and not 'a', no mention of cockney rhyming slang.

atm cockney.jpg

Ya'll got some strange ATM's

Recent facebook post.

American: "What time is it in Australia?"

Australian "Twenty to four in the arvo"

American: "I literally have no idea what that means"

Yonks? YONKS??

Can someone bloody tell me what a "YONK" is?

It sent my autocorrect into fits. Kept trying to bring up "Yank" and "wank." Even smartphones rebel.

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Yonks? YONKS??

Can someone bloody tell me what a yonk is?

It sent my autocorrect into fits. Even smartphones rebel.

Ages. A long time. Yonks.

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Yonks? YONKS??

Can someone bloody tell me what a yonk is?

It sent my autocorrect into fits. Even smartphones rebel.

Ages. A long time. Yonks.

Great to see an interpreter manning the keyboard today. Haven't had this pleasure in yonks.

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Yonks? YONKS??

Can someone bloody tell me what a "YONK" is?

It sent my autocorrect into fits. Kept trying to bring up "Yank" and "wank." Even smartphones rebel.

It's something old people say when they mean bare long, fam.

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Yonks? YONKS??

Can someone bloody tell me what a "YONK" is?

It sent my autocorrect into fits. Kept trying to bring up "Yank" and "wank." Even smartphones rebel.

It's something old people say when they mean bare long, fam.

Ie. Haven't had a wank in yonks.

I think it's probably a variation on 'donkey's years'.

We must re-write history. It were English speaking folks that tried to build the Tower of Babylon. With their 777 different dialects, of course they could not understand each other, therefore the Tower of Babylon was never completed.

Thank god, as opposed to Babylon, in Pattaya you get by with very limited language skills. "F*cky F*cky and "tau rai" (how much), will get you through the day / night easily.

Cheers.

Blimey! would yew bloody translate what in'er English?

Kannscht du Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch schwetzer?

Only in Pittsburgh

Well, not being an English native speaker, I'll feel less alone when I'm struggling to make sense of what I read here from now on

If even native speakers are lost sometimes, I mean...

Boss dat laa. Cushty, like.

Sorrey, Knot all of us are perfict spellors....

dat ablies espeshully too us non-naydiff speekers.

Blimey! would yew bloody translate what in'er English?

Kannscht du Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch schwetzer?

Wow what a few words I am German I never heard of them

Blimey! would yew bloody translate what in'er English?

Kannscht du Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch schwetzer?

Wow what a few words I am German I never heard of them

It's Luxembourgish, according to Google....

...

thanks Google....

Blimey! would yew bloody translate what in'er English?

Kannscht du Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch schwetzer?

Wow what a few words I am German I never heard of them

because Pennsylvania isn't one of the federal German states and we don't have many Amish people in Germany.