Welshisms

[Strumpet]

"Look you mind"

 

[Clair De Lune]

I've been in england since I was 11, completely forget I used to call scratches scrams

My mate is living in Germany and he really misses Wales, he says just the way I type certain words makes him homesick

 

[Strumpet]

innit!

Issit?

 

[pigtails]

goying (going)

 

[Strumpet]

^ LOL



"I'll be there now in a minute!"

 

[cesare]

haha yep they do that too, depends what they have heard though, if its juicy gossip its a sharp intake of breath, if its sad news its a kind of sigh.

Yes! Plus the emphasis changes on which of the three 'duw's . Up down up for gossip. Duw duw duw with a sad shake of the head for bad news.

 

[wayward bob]

"where to's that then?"

 

[Clair De Lune]

Just found this
What a fine ambassador for Wales he is.
"So I made a video" haha

 

[Clair De Lune]

Oh my dear God, he does a rap in the next video

 

[wayward bob]

Who's coats that jacket?

cf "who's boots are these shoes"

 

[Strumpet]

LMAO @ vidjo!

"R Ew"

"aaw poor dab"

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I asked someone on the Gower what the name of the little river that ran into the sea past his house was. He said
"It's called that little river than runs down by there."

 

[Strumpet]

Lol

 

[Fedayn]

The way some women from Swansea area say 'ears'......

 

[Clair De Lune]

haha aw yeah she's over b'there mun! She'll be coming now in minute.

 

[Clair De Lune]

The way some women from Swansea area say 'ears'......

Yuuurs you mean?

 

[Fedayn]

Yuuurs you mean?

Falls off chair.....

 

[poisondwarf]

daps for plimsolls, but I've heard that in Bristol too

Daps is particular to Wales and the west country apparently.

 

[spacemonkey]

Ew'eader.

 

[Strumpet]

"Ohhh ello! I haven't seen you frages!"

 

[Strumpet]

And ppl say "like" a lot! Put it after loads of sentences!

 

[Strumpet]

"Only a dwt she is! Aaww"

 

[Gromit]

Like I said, I didn't think they were either.
Yeah scram as in scratch, I explained up there^^^

Yeah strumpet muling or mewling as in munting, hanging, ugly.

I thought you meant food. That was some good scram that was.

Although i ain't heard it used it years.

 

[Gromit]

twp - as phil said earlier

He's twp in the 'ead.

 

[llion]

Cwtsh dan star is the Welsh for cupboard under the stairs - much nicer isn't it!?

 

[pigtails]

"Only a dwt she is! Aaww"

awww I loves that one!

 

[Belushi]

"Only a dwt she is! Aaww"

Another one I'd forgotten

 

[mattie]

What does 'butt' mean as a Welsh phrase/term?

My mate's valley mates all called each other it.

 

[Gromit]

What does 'butt' mean as a Welsh phrase/term?

My mate's valley mates all called each other it.

Means mate.

I thought welshmen calling each other Butt was a false stereotype till i travelled to a mate's neck of the woods where everyone said it. Even the guy from Hong Kong serving in the Chinese take away.

 

[hiccup]

In London, no-one knows what I'm talking about when I say "Well, it'll be a challenge for me..."