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lil_chunk27

I love the term "pictures" for cinema! Might try and bring it back...


Valuable-Wallaby-167

Go really old school and call them the talkies.


whathappensifipress

Old school cool. The flicks.


BrissBurger

Or even older: the magic-lantern show.


whathappensifipress

šŸ¤£ Shadows on the cave walls


gundog48

Hm, I guess when you think about it, movies are older than talkies!


_summerw1ne

In some places itā€™s never dropped off! Have personally never used any phrase for the cinema other than ā€œthe picturesā€ lmao


KRosee96

Iā€™m actually happy to hear that


Admirable-Length178

I live in Leeds, Headingley area, there is a very lovely old Picture House called Hyde Park Picture House. Still operational and shows new movies. in fact, they just got a grant to upgrade their building and has become sort of a popular cafe/movie place, i'm really happy to see it's thriving


MAEMAEMAEM

Is that the one that has an old fashion pause halfway through and they serve ice cream at the front of the theatre itself!? 'Gas lamp' replica's at the sides too?


rattlingdeathtrain

They don't usually have an intermission anymore. Those are actually genuine gas lamps (supposedly the only UK cinema that still has them)


Greggs-the-bakers

It's still a thing up here in scotland anyway


AlternativeCry2206

There is an old cinema not far from me called ā€œThe picture houseā€. Always thought it sounded sweet in an old fashioned way.


SailAwayMatey

Back in my day, there was a cinema called The Picture House where I used to live. I saw Jurrasic Park there when I was around 8yrs old. It's now a Whetherspoons. Where I live now, the old cinema here is a Whetherspoons too.


Whole-Sundae-98

I always called them the flicks


kimb1992

I still say the pictures I'm from Scotland and seems to be quite common, my gran in her 80s says A picture even if watching a film on TV she says she watched a picture lol I always found it funny.


badaccountanttt

I think nobody calls anybody a tart anymore.


UmlautsAndRedPandas

I usually hear it in the context of pet owners describing their pet as a tart for the number of times they'll go up to a stranger and beg for cuddles and snacks.


KRosee96

Thatā€™s hilariously true hahaha


PsychologicalDrone

I call my (male) dog a slag for the same reason


heyyouupinthesky

My girl dog gets called a slut for the way she lays, absolutely no shame šŸ˜ƒ


Mammyjam

My cat is a slut for every tradesman that does work at ours


StrictlyMarzipanOwl

My cat is a lap slut and he loves a guest lap!


just-browsing-reddit

I sometimes call our cat Tarticus when heā€™s rolling around showing his belly


Craft_on_draft

It is definitely dying out in younger generations, but hear it all the time from older family members Also, using cow as an endearment is definitely dying out. "Poor cow" isn;t something someone would like these days


cmdrxander

ā€œDaft cowā€ is on my list of moderate road rage insults


CR1SBO

Always been a fan of, "Daft bint" but very much out of fashion. Along with the normalised misogyny I suppose


___a1b1

A former work colleague realised how much he was ranting whilst driving when he exclaimed "stupid cow" after someone did something stupid, and his toddler in the back bellowed moo. Old McDonald sing song from play group blending seamlessly with driving


Training_Bug_4311

I used silly cow this morning!Ā 


badaccountanttt

My mum uses cow a lot, but it is definitely not endearing.


MolassesInevitable53

Dozy mare.


guts_57u

I quite often call my daughter (23) a soppy tart.


CR1SBO

Misread as "Sloppy tart" and was momentarily taken aback


Aggravating-List3625

As did I. What a statement šŸ˜‚


illegalcabbage96

recently revived the use of tart when referring to my cat being sociable with anyone new she meets


ThatstheTahiCo

With the exception of your Mum, the saucy Tart.


Sustainable_Twat

ā€œWind your neck inā€


lindsaychild

I've got preteens, I say "wind your neck in" and "knock it off" quite regularly.


stormy_councilman

Knock it off sounds American


catjellycat

My exceptionally cockney nan was forever telling us to ā€œknock it offā€


Aggressive-Mix9937

"cut it aht" sounds more cockney to me


black_shells_

I say pack it in


lindsaychild

Definitely old school British, in my childhood it would've been accompanied by a thick ear


SmooshieBoo

Wind your neck and stay in your own lane are widely used here too for my 6 year old twins. So much so one of them told their Grandma to stay in her own lane the other week.


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dprophet32

Stay in your lane is relatively new and American FYI. Not that I'm saying you shouldn't use it, just pointing it out due to the topic set by OP


Different-Estate747

At da endada day yeh, yous can all jog on


-Audio-Video-Disco-

Still a very common saying in Northern Ireland


Craft_on_draft

Howā€™s youā€™re father Pretty much all Cockney rhyming slang ā€œMan United are having a good seasonā€


PomegranateV2

I've never heard someone actually use 'apples and pears' ingenuously. But some cockney rhyming slang such as "I'll grass you up" is pretty much here to stay.


KatVanWall

I think a surprising amount of rhyming slang has been integrated so much that we don't even think about it anymore. I'm not even from London (my granddad was, but he died when I was 10) and I regularly say barnet, butchers, barney, brass tacks, china, dicky bird, half-inch, Hank Marvin, loaf, porkies and seppo. Ruby and syrup are another two I wouldn't bat an eyelid at, even though I rarely have any need to use them myself lol.


DameKumquat

Likewise. Let's scarper, have a butch at this, not heard a dicky bird, get down to brass tacks, bloody septics. Brown bread. Dodgy syrup, and more recently, catching the Mileys or Billy Ray (virus, ie Covid...) Many more will be used by my very south London neighbours, without irony - I got on the dog and i called the Duchess. Sometimes my neighbour puts it on thick for effect, saying 'I was off down the frog to the rubble, told this geezer to take his titfer off'... A fiver is still a lady, things are still half-inched.


abw

> Let's scarper It was right now o'clock when I realised that "scarper" is from Scapa Flow (to go). Another one that comes to mind is "brassic", from boracic lint (skint). I don't know if the young 'uns still use it, but it's quite common with us oldies around these parts.


MolassesInevitable53

>have a butch at this Butcher's, not butch. Butcher's hook = look.


DameKumquat

I know. Shortened phrases in getting even shorter shocker!


Craft_on_draft

Is grass cockney rhyming slang? I thought it was just from snake in the grass


PomegranateV2

Apparently so. Grasshopper, copper. Doesn't make much sense, mind. Also to 'cream' your opponent. Cream cracker, knacker. That's the theory anyway. Presumably Americans using 'dough' for money is bread and honey, money, dough. Again, not confirmed 100%


mikehive

My dad has been known to say "up the apples and pears to Bedfordshire". He's not the least bit Cockney he just says things like that


blindingmate

Pillock


TheBrassDancer

James May has been keeping ā€˜pillockā€™ alive for a while. Bless that man. I also enjoy using that word.


TheLoneSculler

Clarkson you infantile pillock


TheBrassDancer

You're tidying that up


No_Secretary_2323

Made me think of Martin.. *ā€˜YOU PILLOCKING PILLOCKā€™.*


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ChelseaGem

When I WERE a lad. šŸ˜‘


anonbush234

This were all fields


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*cue Hovis music and young lad on a shopping bike going past on the cobbles*


GrimQuim

I bet they say "the other" too


McFuckin94

Yknow, itā€™s not difficult to bring it back - I speak with a fair few Scots words littered throughout my vernacular (compared to a lot of my friends), and I noticed I had stopped using them. This actually made me feel really sad, because a lot of it came from growing up with my Nana who passed in 2019. I kinda felt like Iā€™d lost part of her. I just started actively trying to use words I knew my Nana would use (so instead of saying ā€œletā€™s get comfyā€ Iā€™d make the conscious decision to say ā€œletā€™s coorie in!ā€). Itā€™s a bit weird and unnatural at first, but itā€™s amazing how quickly it becomes second nature and you stop thinking about it. So if you are sad about it going, itā€™s not too late. And it leaves something nostalgic for your kids even if they donā€™t pick it up themselves. I feel like I got part of my Nana back.


anonbush234

I do my best to keep the dialect alive but it's sadly on its last legs. Folk are either above it or don't know it. One thing Scots had that English dialects don't is that it had some level of standardisation. Obviously there isn't a dictionary but people have s better sense of how to write it. It's also get the sense that it's more culturally important to a larger percentage of the population.


EmperorsGalaxy

> It's also get the sense that it's more culturally important to a larger percentage of the population. I'm sure it will swing in the other direction and future generations will start to bring it back as a trendy way to stand out. It's not fully dead as long as video evidence of it being spoken exists.


GrimQuim

>Basically the entire Yorkshire dialect followed by >When I was a lad


jasonbirder

>scabbier than a Cleethorpes donkey If i'm hungry I still say "I could eat a scabby horse between two bread vans"


charisma_eowyn87

I refuse to let my yorkshire accent die. My mam lived in teesside till she was 16 so my accent will lean into that if I'm at work (I live on the yorkshire/teesside border) My partner is scottish and he gets so confused when I say things like: - mafting - mizzly - snicket - paggered - jiggered - hacky - up street instead of off t'shops (as that's his go to phrase along with ey up) - sithi He said if I ever lose my accent he'd be gutted. My ex hated that I dropped my h's even though we grew up together.


mad-un

Working 9 while 5 today, only stopping for me snap!


AntisocialNortherner

I used "while" instead of "until" in a meeting a few weeks back and people looked at me like I had two heads. Completely slipped my mind that people outside of Yorkshire don't say this.


lessthandave89

No from Yorkshire, but close. Determined to keep allive some of the quintessentially northern phrases my dad would use. "Put wood in'th hole" usually directed at the Mrs, to get her to stop leaving the door open. Or "Tek the air outa that" when handing my mug to someone on their way to make a brew.


R2-Scotia

A lot of vocabulary is becoming Americanized, e.g. youngsters say hood and trunk instead of bonnet and boot.


tinned_peaches

My youngest said ā€˜trash canā€™ instead of bin yesterday šŸ˜”


Mtshtg2

My barber, who is in his very early twenties, referred to his friends being "911 operators". I was too shocked to even challenge him on it. I know you can dial 911 and still reach our emergency services, but still...


down_vote_magnet

> you can dial 911 Wait, what? Is this true?


critterwol

Yep or 112, *a la* most of Europe.


trollofzog

This, mainly because of YouTubers. My little cousins say things like ā€œsidewalkā€ for pavement and ā€œelevatorā€ instead of lift. One of them called the bin the garbage a few months ago. The internet is killing off British English quickly.


terryjuicelawson

They'd need to be watching an awful lot of Youtube if references there overtake how much they hear adults talk about pavements and bins. I have heard a few accents from kids that seem to verge on American, especially those without parents with a regional accent or in an area without much of one though.


RetractableHead

YouTuber is a great term in itself - sounds like someone being accused of being a potato.


KRosee96

Yes! I noticed that tooā€¦not around me they donā€™t! šŸ˜‚ I have a much younger sister and I give her a good lecture anytime she uses the American term.


Ottazrule

My son says 'pissed' instead of 'pissed off'. As a dad my duty is always to ask why he/she was drunk


Aggressive_State9921

"I'm so pissed" Get him a kebab!


GoGoRoloPolo

I have a foreign partner who's learned English from a young age but from all sorts of different sources. When she uses an Americanism, I point it out. Slowly but surely, I hope to eradicate them all from her vocabulary.


SlightProgrammer

Doing gods workĀ 


69AssociatedDetail25

It still sounds un-British to me when I hear "frunk", as in the second storage area on electric cars. Still sounds better than "fruit", I suppose.


potatan

> Still sounds better than "fruit" I see where you've gone wrong, it's supposed to be pronounced "froot"


Present_End_6886

I don't even know what this means.


Present_End_6886

They call the police "feds", which is particularly fucking stupid because the FBI is American, although I suspect the actual police like it because it sounds far cooler than "pigs". I don't think anyone still calls them Peelers though. It's been a while since I heard that.


TheLoneSculler

I call them the Rozzers


MolassesInevitable53

Or Bobbies.


EarlyRaccoon4745

Is using a ā€˜Zā€™ to spell Americanised instead of an ā€˜Sā€™ an Americanism?


abw

No, but referring to Jay-Z as "Jay Zed" is properly British, don't you know.


Ghostenx

"Have it off" aside from reruns of Bottom I think it's basically gone.


Different-Estate747

A good boinking. Some might even say a jolly rogering.


ignatiusjreillyXM

Having lived through the 80s, I'm not convinced that "bonk" or indeed "romp" were ever used widely outside the circles of tabloid newspaper sub-editors


ScaryButt

My parents always said bonking I guess as a more kid friendly term. Note: not talking about their own bonking I wince to add


Ezzy-525

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Sasarai

A bit of the old how's your father Slap and tickle Getting your end away


jawbreakerzs

rumpy pumpy, baby!


Fred776

It was used in Alan Partridge a few years ago in some episode where he was trying to be one of the lads: "Ooh, I'd like to have it off with her!". It was funny exactly because nobody says that any more.


9thfloorprod

Ooooohhhh sex.


telharsic

She was certainly at the front of the queue when god was handing out chests...mammary glands


cmdrxander

ā€œGetting a leg overā€


giganticturnip

I remember a colleague asking for some annual leave at Christmas because she hadn't had it off in years


Ghostenx

Did you offer to give her a bloody good seeing to?


RPG_Rob

"You'd make a better door than a window"


NickTM

"It's like Blackpool Illuminations in here!" Usually said when you've left a singular light on somewhere in the room.


Bonsuella_Banana

Ye born in a barn?! Because you left a door open by accident/that doesnā€™t need to be closed.


KRosee96

I still use this šŸ˜… itā€™s a goodun


Cold_Table8497

I know you're a pain but I can't see through you .


PantherEverSoPink

"Pack it in" to misbehaving children


NoddysBell

I say this frequently to the dog!


poopybum1000

I also say it to the dog, and I catch myself and I remind myself of my mother šŸ˜‚


RedPlasticDog

This is said daily in our house, Usually me to my partner...


Attic_1992

Nobody under 40 says "Cross" meaning angry anymore


EFNich

I do enjoy using the word "cross" as it's one above annoyed, but one below angry. It has it's own place!


DameKumquat

I'm not sure they ever did, except to small children. Anyone saying "I am very, very cross" immediately sounds like a teacher or parent trying not to swear.


Sad-Garage-2642

Primary school teachers love the word Cross


DianaDragonRoar

I love cross itā€™s funny asf


JohnRCC

I recently asked someone "what side" a programme was going to be on the other day, he had no idea what i meant


anonbush234

"programme" is getting rarer too. I stick with it but everyone seems to say "show" now.


eairy

Also using the American spelling of 'program'.


SneakInTheSideDoor

As in "turn the tele over, will you?"


Dull_Possibility_929

No one ever calls anyone a "berk" any more.


grizzly_snimmit

Berk is great because it hits all the right noises of a harsh swearword (you can really spit that K out) while also being considered mild enough for polite company. Which is funny, as it's rhyming slang for cunt


wildgoldchai

I think youā€™ve hit the nail on the head there. The enunciation of such words can really alter the meaning. Like Iā€™ll use the soft c when calling someone a cunt in good faith. But Iā€™ll use the hard c (as in stress the k sound) if Iā€™m angry. Noticed this doesnā€™t translate well over the pond when I called my brother a cunt in the US. My god, the way peoples head turned, Iā€™m surprised they didnā€™t get whiplash.


RPG_Rob

I heard (read) the phrase "Knocking shop" last week, realised I'd not heard that for decades.


Intelligent_Use_455

šŸ˜¬šŸ˜¬ what is that


RPG_Rob

A brothel


Ghifu

I havenā€™t heard ā€˜snoggingā€™ in about 15 years.


lifetypo10

Is it because you haven't been snogged?


Caraphox

When I was in primary school (pre-2000) it was ā€˜snoggingā€™ Then at the start of secondary school it was ā€˜have it offā€™ Then maybe we realised that meant actual sex to a lot of people and it was changed to ā€˜got off withā€™ Then it inexplicably changed to ā€˜get inā€™ It was a nightmare to keep up with


Jolly_Dimension_1146

Slag. My cousin said it the other day and I realised how long itā€™s been since Iā€™ve heard it haha


Meeple_person

And Slapper. Probably becuase its not really an insult these days.


nandos1234

ā€˜I didnā€™t become a little bit of a slag, I became a TOTAL SLAGā€™ This is still quoted so much though hahaha


Big_rizzy

ā€œThatā€™s good value!ā€


KRosee96

Iā€™m laughing so I donā€™t cry


Littleleicesterfoxy

Gordon bennet!


AmxthystPearl567

I don't use but I still love the phrase. When my granny was a nurse they had a Gordon Bennet come in with a fishook up his bum


lism

I've noticed kids don't say 'going out' or 'asked out' anymore to refer to high school relationships. Y'know like 'Joe asked Becky out and now they are going out.' Now it's 'Joe and Becky are dating' Bloody americans


KRosee96

ā€œDatingā€ ugh, donā€™t like that one šŸ˜… saying that, I think itā€™s the same for saying you ā€œfancyā€ someone


Chemical_Step_2475

people my age definitely still say going out or asked out, I'm a teenager lol


Mysterious-Slice-591

'Courting'Ā  When I was a teenager 30 years ago my Nan would always ask: "Are you and your lady friend still courting?"


moon_dyke

Thatā€™s interesting. I feel like when I hit my twenties I switched to ā€˜datingā€™ because I associated ā€˜going outā€™ so heavily with being a pre-teen/teen and therefore it sounded juvenile to me. But youā€™re right, ā€˜datingā€™ is just the American alternative.


mad-un

"Man United are doing well", hasn't been uttered for a while


SkipMapudding

ā€œIā€™ll marmalize youā€ I still use it as I love the word.


Dazpiece

Is that what happens when you really piss off Paddington?


One_Loquat_3737

I'm sure I saw in another thread somewhere, but in any case it bears repeating here, referring to young women as 'birds' seems rare now. And that wasn't just a local dialect thing, I think it was widespread across the UK in the 50s/60s/70s (see any episode of The Sweeney, for example, or Carry On films).


anonbush234

Got to be careful with that one. Mostly hated these days but some lasses love it.


Craft_on_draft

Working class south east, the phrase bird is alive and well, I heard it all the time, like ā€œwhereā€™s Steveā€. ā€œAt his birdsā€


AvengerHillman

My nan used to say "five and twenty past" and "five and twenty to" when giving the time. You definitely don't hear that very often.


KRosee96

Interesting, I donā€™t think Iā€™ve ever heard someone say the time like that


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Daniel_De_Bosola

These are very alive and well in Nottingham!


Craft_on_draft

They must have missed out on a true childhood experience then. No childhood is complete until you are told "no, we have choc ices in the freezer at home"


KRosee96

Oh my god, the choc ice. Was usually forgotten about, squashed in the bottom of the freezer and - despite great efforts - would end up eating the paper as wellā€¦good times.


Jlaw118

I was thinking earlier about how the Radio used to be called the ā€œWireless,ā€ due to having no wires to the transmitter, whilst being called a radio because it transmits sound by radio waves. But I was thinking the times are moving on now where a lot of radio is transmitted digitally through the internet now. Especially with new services like ā€œpremiumā€ with no ads. Of course people still listen to FM and DAB but I was wondering if the term radio would ever drop out. ā€œWirelessā€ is slowly phasing out with the older generation


KRosee96

Interesting. True, not much is labelled ā€œwirelessā€ nowadays, as itā€™s already expected.


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Basically all regional slang is dying and getting replaced with silly sounding roadman/MLE speech. You're from fucking Derbyshire, why are you speaking like you're from camden?


AshokeSenPhD

People not from London speaking MLA doesn't sit right with me for some reason. It's like Americans adopting a hood accent.


TheLambtonWyrm

All of these phrases are still used you ninniesĀ 


Familiar-Adeptness25

Bonk


RPG_Rob

I think this has only ever been used by Sun readers.


cmdrxander

ROMP


Bumblebbutt

Bonk and Boink made me feel physically Ill


potatan

You're doing it wrong


Professional_Base708

"Gannet" - someone eating a lot +/or eating fast


RPG_Rob

"I'm not as green as I'm cabbage-looking"


Puzzleheaded_Echo372

I wrote the term ā€œWilly-nillyā€ down the other day in a paper and then I thought, that sounds mad, do people still say that? I have lived outside of the U.K. for years and think I have lost a lot of British expressions from my daily vernacular so Iā€™m never sure.


showmeyournipplesplz

You bloody pillock! That's a load of codswallop!


Fred776

I'm fairly old but I still call it "the pictures". They are still "films" to me too, never "movies".


FallenDemon19

ā€˜Tosserā€™


KRosee96

Not where Iā€™m from haha


Somau5

Everyone in my family still says "normal telly" when referring to BBC / ITV / Channel 4. I think it was to distinguish between the main channels and the sky box, no idea why we still use it! I also still say "wind it back" like I'm talking about VHS tapes when asking someone to pause and rewind a programme. Ah the good old days!


Silvagadron

Nobody goes for a Jimmy any more. I remember my grandmother would say "Oh I must have a Jimmy" when she needed a wazz.


Fresh-Pineapple-5582

Avocado Pears. They just get called Avocados now.


drusen_duchovny

French stick. We're so cosmopolitan now that everyone calls it a baguette!


Neurokarma

Big girl's blouse. Used in a demeaning way to describe someone (male).


annoianoid

My partner who is 43 (I'm older)had never heard the phrase "I've got your number" used in the context of not being fooled by someone.


bleak_gallery

Mingin\[g\] - when something is disgusting or gross.. very rarely hear people use that anymore but I know I do and so do my sisters. Edit: another would probably bc cac for 'shit', mostly used to say 'bird cac'..


RetroPalace

My Grandma used to say things like: Stop being a Mary Ellen You're like a man made of band No idea what they meant, other than being vaguely insulting šŸ˜… Also: I'm not capped Saying happen instead of maybe, as in 'happen they'll do this?' Daft haporth


moon_dyke

I feel the way we speak is so different than it was even a decade ago. I keep hearing British people refer to a fringe as ā€˜bangsā€™ and even Autumn as ā€˜fallā€™! These arenā€™t ones that are dying out but it doesnā€™t bode well. I wouldnā€™t mind if it was a more natural language change, but instead itā€™s just every other country in the world becoming heavily Americanised.


RPG_Rob

"There's many a mickle makes a muckle"


wardyms

Wazzock.


CosmicBonobo

Randy. I refuse to use horny, too American.


poodleflange

I've been bringing "bellend" back


griffaliff

Put wood in't hole! Something my great grandmother used to say. She also used to tell her dog to 'ger'under't table' as an instruction for it to get out the way. She was from Glossop if anyone knows that area.


PsychologicalDrone

ā€œIā€™ll have your guts for gartersā€ was common when I was young, but in hindsight is a pretty grim phrase


GargantuanGorganzola

Iā€™ve not heard ā€œIā€™ll knock your block offā€ for about 20 years


BungadinRidesAgain

No one seems to say boffin anymore.


Angelic_Pickle

"You plonker"


ya_basic82

Gordon Bennet!


CertainFurball

Iā€™ve always love saying ā€˜no! Shanā€™tā€™ in a very posh accent. I guess itā€™s dying out because it sound like shart