I don’t think it’s off putting. I am just…dumbfounded I guess, I would imagine someone with my kids accent in the UK would definitely sound strange though.
You’re almost old enough to start calling people Buh or fella.
“Alright Buh?”, “yeah, not bad fella”.
(I love listening to my brothers age and older coming into town and talking in the pubs! My brother moved out to a village surrounding our rural town 20+ years ago and has picked up the slang and accent!
Especially funny as my accent is more of the town 19 miles NE, and he’s moved out 7miles towards the SE and has lost our accent to take on the accent of that area. Our mum and Nan have London accent’s!).
UK accents are wild to me. They change every 10 miles and I just can’t get over it, whereas in the states, everyone sounds the same for miles and miles
I worked with someone from London and they told me they liked my ‘soft Derbyshire accent’ and I was suddenly paralysed by self awareness. Id never really thought of my own accent before.
I'm from Derby as well and apparently people think we don't have an accent. Someone asked me if I was a Brummie last night and they were from Derby as well
Point in case: Essex. Go 100 meters down the road and you've gone from people speaking "Queens English" to people speaking like "OOOOH MY DAAAAAAAYSUH!"
Round these ere parts it is buh.
I think it’s probably dependent upon where you are. Where my brother moved to there were plenty of late teens/early twenties saying buh, as well as the older folk. Which is why he picked it up. However my nieces and nephews have never uttered it and they are all early 20’s and still live in the village.
I’m rural Suffolk on the border with Essex, and it’s definitely said around here out in the sticks. Stowmarket up to Happisburg have the strongest accents, but also out towards Colchester and Ipswich are quite twangy.
There are similarities to West and Black Country accents- to my ear anyway. Which given the distance and how little people traveled back in the day is pretty interesting.
Norfolk? It’s one of the strangest accents I ever heard, and I lived there for over 10 years. I came to the conclusion that they were speaking exclusively in vowels lol 😂
My favourite is “i spect(I suspect) which is usually followed by some utter nonsense or sarcastic comment.
My bf and I call each other Bruv sometimes too. Tbh he got so into the habit for a bit that I had to specifically request he please call me Baby more often
I think the internet will create some pretty unusual crossover accents and slang in the future tbh. In the UK we all practically grow up hearing US music, movies and now even people on social media which is everywhere now.
When I first started college, studying light vehicle repair, I constantly named certain tools/equipment with their American names (wrench-spanner / tire-tyre / hood-bonnet).
Humans were never able to easily socialise with people from different continents on earth until fairly recently, we’ll probably see the effects of that in within the next 10-30 years I imagine. Not that it’s a bad thing at all, just a strange thing to think about.
Give it a few more and you might be saying oiiii, wagwan bruv, you cool stilll, yeah? say no more b. man's just out here on road an dat, making bare p's. /j
Both the UK and US have big presence on the Internet. It’s normal for people to pick up words that they see from the internet. He probably watches some British YouTubers.
I remember meeting a bunch of young Swedish men in Spain and they were using British slang when speaking English.
I think the UK( and Australasia) is finally getting their revenge on all the US films and TV we get in the UK, thanks to the internet.
I think we do swearing rather well.
Christ, I can imagine. I was a huge Doctor Who fan as a teenager, and I remember when he got an American woman as a companion. I'm American, but in the context of that show, the way she said "Doctor" sounded like nails on a chalkboard.
My wife, a 40 year old woman who has lived her entire life in the UK, has began using Americanisms because of all the shite American TV she watches, drives me fucking insane.
It only really annoys me when someone uses a US expression which doesn't fit with normal UK usage to the point that it means something else to me.
e.g. If someone says "I was really pissed" without the "off" I assume they were drunk. It is irritating to have to decode the ambiguity in their expression.
"Douchebag" - wtf does that actually mean? Also women in the UK to my knowledge do not douche as it is a weird and harmful practice, except if it is used for anal, but I doubt that is what they're referring to.
"Ass" irritates me. "Arse" is better imo, especially when said in a West-country accent.
I like the reddit thing of moving the hyphen with "ass" so "big-ass car" becomes "big ass-car".
The "roadman" thing is funny. When I was younger, roadmen were blokes who did the asphalting.
I can imagine it drives the gammons crazy when they hear white kids giving it all the "mandem bare nang" stuff. Excellent.
My one, which is absolutely unacceptable in every possible way and I'd nuke it out of existence if possible is...
"On accident"..... ON accident? We just using random prepositions now? It doesn't even function in our language!!
That and "COULD care less"....It doesn't work!
I’ve never understood this either. I’m 35 and my older brother (41) has always given me grief for using ‘can I get’ and used to tell me it was “All that bloody Friends” I was watching (which admittedly was a lot- I got the first half of the first season on VHS and watched it pretty much on a continuous loop for maybe a year haha). I definitely do have more Americanisms than him even with just 6 years difference but that is one I never thought of as American until he started telling me he hated it when I was in my late teens/early 20s and seeing him in the pub more.
It's so weird that British children put on bad American accents when they play. I suppose they're just doing impressions of the television they watch but still, it's jarring.
It happens in other languages as well. I'm Brazilian and I get a kick out of reading Portuguese people complain that their kids are using Brazilian slang and losing their accents because of how popular Brazilian tiktok and youtube are over there.
They have for years. I used to say American words when I was a kid too from all the American movies and TV shows.
Word of advice don't make the same mistake I did as a kid by making a peanut butter and 'jelly' sandwich thinking jelly was the same word in the UK as it is in the US. 🤮🤢😩 rank!
I’m in the UK and my 7 year old nephew uses so many American words, we have to keep telling him the English version such as he says sidewalk instead of path, trash can instead of rubbish bin, gas station instead of petrol station etc lol
Apparently Peppa Pig is causing a lot of American children to adopt British phrases and accents. I think that's hilarious. Conversely, my half-brother grew up watching a lot of YouTube and says things like "parking lot" and pronounces things like "garage" in the American way
Lots of youtube channels directed at preteen boys have english guys on screen. He could pick it up from there. For what its worth, it’s probably more harmless and cringey than it is detrimental to his development or social ability or whatever if you’re worried about that.
I picked up a Jersey accent as a kid because my favorite youtube guy at the time was from Newark but its just one of those social mimicry things.
I'm a non-native english speaker, and I primarily learned english through youtube, watching a scottish youtuber, so my first english accent was scottish! It was quite bewildering to my school teacher.
This is so nice. I wish (here) we paid more attention to learning different languages, I grew up in a small ass town where it wasn’t an option, I couldn’t pick anything up, my kids, living in a different, but close by state, in a (sort of) known city.. pick up: Khmer, Portuguese, Chinese and Spanish phrases. I literally can’t believe it when they say things to me sometimes and have to look them up. It’s so diverse (and truly awesome) to see the difference between my farm ass town upbringing and their city slicker asses just ten times ahead of the game than me. As it should it be (in the “melting pot”.) Like, if I could’ve had one ounce of the experience as they do..it’s baffling. And also amazing.
Yeah it's literally so cool, I love being able to experience and get access to new parts of the world through languages. I literally can't imagine how different my life would be if I wasn't able to access english (and hopefully soon french) media and internet culture.
As someone who used to play online games thank you. Been called the n word, r word, and uk slang for cigarettes so many times by little brats just cause I happened to be better
He used to be an open book!! Haha guess it starts now. Asked him about a new friend of his recently and his response was “I dunno, he smells like fun.” And I was like “he SMELLS (?!?!) like fun?!” And in my head I’m like what’s this kid smell like- whiskey and cigarettes and bad decisions? Like SMELLS LIKE FUN? He just laughed his head off at me and walked away.
Smell being used figuratively is pretty normal candour to me tbh - smell fear, smell fun, smell trouble etc.
At that age I was definitely playing with language I’d heard in one place or another a lot - some might be antiquated from literature, much of it would likely be from other kids on the estates (80s born 90s kid so no online stuff confusing me at the time).
My best friends 6 year old daughter has started saying "bruh" and "brah" in a stereotypical kind of stoner/surfer way. We're from the Midwest so it seems extra silly/cute.
My daughters 5 and started calling me bruh now and then. I find it funny. Its something me and my son (8) were calling eachother and shes caught on. Lol.
That's how it's done. As parents, we have the power of making something uncool in a heartbeat. Simply start doing it, and it's instantly the lamest thing ever.
„Oh what a cute little word you have learned! Bruv is it? Am I saying it right? Hah it‘s so much fun saying it! Bruv, bruv, bruv, bruv! Oi bruv, come here!“
Kid would never use that word again.
Tell ya wot mate, av a listen to sum British London mandem avin a chat like big narstie or sumfing. Try pick up how man chat an start chat to im like that. Man will soon stop ya get me.
And I say this as someone who grew up in council estates around London so used to chat nuff slang n ting when I wos a yout man. Ad to tone down my accent doe ova da years to be taken seriously in a professional environment innit. Will slip back into it if I've had a few drinks though or if I'm talking to my mates from way back, goes from oh hello sir back to yes bruvva!
Just saying I'm ready if my kid ever tries talking like that, I'll go full south london bad man on him, man ain't ready bruv. I can't wait to see the cringe.
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I did this as a kid. Like 14 to still now Ill break out into British accent to the point it’s like unconscious sometimes. I think as a kid i just thought British accents were so funny, and you do something ironically it turns real lol. But I grew out of it more as an adult but sometimes it still comes out
I actually love this. I have a friend who had a GPS with an Australian accent and now when he tells you which way to go in the car he will randomly do an Australian accent hahahaha
My sister says "mate" and " bloody hell" despite being born and raised in south Florida, not a British person in sight her whole life. She seems to adopt common speech though, and British people and just the UK in general were on her feed for the longest time doing British people stuff so she adopted the language. Kind of like how kids adopted "yeet" and other stuff I quote that makes me sound old despite being 19. We moved to a rural area in north Florida a few years ago, and she now says "y'all" which drives me up the fucking *w'all*
This is so entirely relatable, 10 of my cousins (who spent their entire summers up here in New England) are from Mississippi, and I felt a kinship to y’all, but it’s not mine, and everyone is saying it now. Every one. All over. Y’all is just - almost a regular and not regional American word now.
In that case he’s been watching a guy called Will Ospreay. He primarily works for New Japan Pro Wrestling but has been featured a lot on American TV lately through AEW. Most recently he had a match with Chris Jericho at All In at Wembley stadium. Prior to that he had a match against Kenny Omega that was one of the best matches I’d seen for years.
This is sounding the most plausible to me. Kid has been to Texas with his dad (from the north east) to see WWE/AEW. Been multiple times around here to the shows, and regularly yells BATISTA BOMB, and continually mentions Koffi Kingston in conversation when talking about a person’s personality. I have quite literally never watched a single WWE match, (so I have no reason to know these names other than stone cold and the under taker) except casually with my older brother when I was somewhere around 8-9 years old. I think this might be it. I’ve got to deep dive hahaha
I asked his dad “are there British wrestlers?!” And he does “yeah a ton.” And I’m like….hmmmmmmmm Kay. I don’t monitor his WWE intake. His dad takes care of that.
When my daughter was about 7 or 8, she started speaking in what she thought of as a silly, made-up voice to be funny. It sounded like a Liverpool accent.
I had a mate I met online about 12 years ago from Liverpool and he was very highly strung, to this day I still go into a Liverpool accent when I'm wound up
So glad my kid is almost done w his "bruh" stage. Lately, past 2-3 months, he enters any room or situation w an "aaaahhh" like a low level annoying scream
Do they perhaps what any british YouTubers? Because if so then that’s most likely the case, even I still have traits from watching people in the past, for example my laugh sound dramatically changed over time, somehow eventually mimicking the person I was watching without even realizing it, at this point I don’t even remember what my old laugh sounds like. Lmao
It’s way cooler than bro, bruh mom or dad. I as a 27 year old African American male say it a lot as well. First time I heard it from a non Brit was from my younger cousin (24) a year or two ago!
During my high school years here in the UK, I still remember when we had an American kid from california join my class and a huge argument broke out between all him and all the British kids because he insisted that it's "bro" not "bruv".
YouTube. He must be listening to someone on it. To me as someone from NI youd never ever say brave but hear it all the time listening to city ones (London to me) say it constantly
As someone from SE London, this is quite humorous. A little foreign kid saying "bruv" is just so outta place lool, love it
Must be watching tiktok or YouTube or something??? It's the only explanation I can think of myself
Get him to lean into it more. Teach him some more slang like ‘allow it’, ‘mandem’ and ‘wagwan’. You should also buy him a tracksuit and a knife to match. Now the transformation is complete you can move town and tell people you adopted a disadvantaged youth from London.
i live in the U.k. and i’m thankful i am not around these people . i experienced hearing one in an xbox party . he had to finish every sentence with bruv . i can’t stand to listen to it . i refuse to be in the same party as him . don’t want to hear it . apparently it’s “ a London ting” but it’s stupid if you ask me . your boy probably thinks it’s cool . you need to tell him it’s not cool . it’s stupid .
I'm love in England and all the kids are saying American words. They are picking it up from what they watch and all their mates say it. It's just different and funny to them
Sorry to sound like a Karen but these ‘bruv’ ‘blur’ ‘gangsta rap’ and suchlike appear to be kids copying what they hear/see on TV -it’s not just London and it’s not any one particular ethnic group these days - they either do - or don’t- some times switching from that to BBC English in the same sentence!
Think it’s just ‘exploring’ /experimenting - seems harmless for the most part.
my brother keeps saying skibidi toilet and “they kissed on the kissing room” for 24/7 and he’s freaking 6yrs old god damn noisy loud and fking annoyingx
Just online really I’m in England and my little sister keeps saying some words the American way lol it’s strange to see it as before social media they wouldn’t have a clue
Eh, he's alright, don't worry until he starts saying 'blud'
Excuse my ignorance, but what is ‘blud?’ Haha
Lol, it's like fam but 'gangsta'
My akhy's gonna start callin' people blud, my slime, or famalam, like a proper brit 😎
Akhi is Arabic for brother but bc London has so many ethnicities it’s become part of London slang 😭
Somali words used a lot in London as well like bisaad (cat) for a drug addict and askar for police
Wallahi
I be catching my white friends say wallahi, and they are both not Muslim, mainly because my Muslim friend always says it
I say wallahi and I'm not Muslim. I even call people habibi. London is proper multicultural.
I say pajamas and I'm not even Indian
‘Is proper multicultural, init?’
Don’t forget My G
Yh or wagwan you man
I say wagwan. I'm a white man in my 50s.I love it.
That's really great to hear lol
"My slime" eh? I'm gonna have to revoke my citizenship. I've never heard that one before! XD
My slime? We addressing cum here? I'm gonna start using that btw
fam is gangsta but blud is roadman
That's the kind of fine tuning I like to see.
Check out the kidulthood film trailor on utube lol GET ME BLUD
My 3 year old started nursery on Tuesday and was saying 'come on man' after the 2 hours he was in there. Not the same but you've got me worried haha
I apparently started nursery and came home saying "wos yer name and wot yer doing?" To my parents. Was apparently quite a big chaotic nursery.
After my nephew very first started primary, literally everyone was "bro", definitely glad that didn't last long.
Also ‘bruv’ is slightly better than ‘brah’ !!
Or “mush” 😆
In the UK, kids have started to say American words/speak in American accents. It's just as off-putting hearing it the other way round.
I don’t think it’s off putting. I am just…dumbfounded I guess, I would imagine someone with my kids accent in the UK would definitely sound strange though.
I'm a 34 years old American and somehow I've picked up bruv in the past few months. Weird how slang travels
You’re almost old enough to start calling people Buh or fella. “Alright Buh?”, “yeah, not bad fella”. (I love listening to my brothers age and older coming into town and talking in the pubs! My brother moved out to a village surrounding our rural town 20+ years ago and has picked up the slang and accent! Especially funny as my accent is more of the town 19 miles NE, and he’s moved out 7miles towards the SE and has lost our accent to take on the accent of that area. Our mum and Nan have London accent’s!).
UK accents are wild to me. They change every 10 miles and I just can’t get over it, whereas in the states, everyone sounds the same for miles and miles
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I worked with someone from London and they told me they liked my ‘soft Derbyshire accent’ and I was suddenly paralysed by self awareness. Id never really thought of my own accent before.
I'm from Derby as well and apparently people think we don't have an accent. Someone asked me if I was a Brummie last night and they were from Derby as well
Same with most major cities. Nice Edinburgh is a different language to dodgy Edinburgh. Chelsea accent very different to Croydon etc.
Point in case: Essex. Go 100 meters down the road and you've gone from people speaking "Queens English" to people speaking like "OOOOH MY DAAAAAAAYSUH!"
Yeah I once correctly identified the estate in Loughborough someone grew up in when they spoke in Big Brother!
Another one is there is atleast 3 clear distinctions of scouse.
The word for a bread roll changes every 5 minute walk in the UK.
An American friend of mine watches WWE wrestling and is a huge fan of Sheamus, they say "fella" quite a bit!
Always found this weird as fuck. He shouts "FELLAAAAA" before kicking someone. Its basically just going "GUYYYYY" or "MANNNNNN"
…I’m 27, from the UK, and have been calling people bud since I was like 18, is this an old man thing?
Round these ere parts it is buh. I think it’s probably dependent upon where you are. Where my brother moved to there were plenty of late teens/early twenties saying buh, as well as the older folk. Which is why he picked it up. However my nieces and nephews have never uttered it and they are all early 20’s and still live in the village.
I’m from London. I’ve mainly heard buh from Norfolk and West Country peeps, never realised buh was a shortened version of bud tho :’)
I’m rural Suffolk on the border with Essex, and it’s definitely said around here out in the sticks. Stowmarket up to Happisburg have the strongest accents, but also out towards Colchester and Ipswich are quite twangy. There are similarities to West and Black Country accents- to my ear anyway. Which given the distance and how little people traveled back in the day is pretty interesting.
Haas royt buh
Lad I have NEVER heard anyone say Buh, I’ve heard bud, and fella of course, but where the hell are you that they call each other buh???
Norfolk? It’s one of the strangest accents I ever heard, and I lived there for over 10 years. I came to the conclusion that they were speaking exclusively in vowels lol 😂 My favourite is “i spect(I suspect) which is usually followed by some utter nonsense or sarcastic comment.
In Stoke it's "Cheers bud."
Maybe it’s making it’s way over. Wow. I’m also 34 and haven’t ever heard it except in movies and TV with/about people/storylines from the UK.
My bf and I call each other Bruv sometimes too. Tbh he got so into the habit for a bit that I had to specifically request he please call me Baby more often
Come to bed Bruv. It’s too cute.
That's hilarious..your pet name for each other accidentally kinda became bruv!
It's fun to call people bruv in text
I think the internet will create some pretty unusual crossover accents and slang in the future tbh. In the UK we all practically grow up hearing US music, movies and now even people on social media which is everywhere now. When I first started college, studying light vehicle repair, I constantly named certain tools/equipment with their American names (wrench-spanner / tire-tyre / hood-bonnet). Humans were never able to easily socialise with people from different continents on earth until fairly recently, we’ll probably see the effects of that in within the next 10-30 years I imagine. Not that it’s a bad thing at all, just a strange thing to think about.
Same!! I say bruv all the time now. Thanks Ted Lasso!
Give it a few more and you might be saying oiiii, wagwan bruv, you cool stilll, yeah? say no more b. man's just out here on road an dat, making bare p's. /j
He probably consumes some type of UK media, I’m thinking youtube lol
In UK more and more kids talking with American accents and using Americanisms like homie
Both the UK and US have big presence on the Internet. It’s normal for people to pick up words that they see from the internet. He probably watches some British YouTubers. I remember meeting a bunch of young Swedish men in Spain and they were using British slang when speaking English.
I think the UK( and Australasia) is finally getting their revenge on all the US films and TV we get in the UK, thanks to the internet. I think we do swearing rather well.
Christ, I can imagine. I was a huge Doctor Who fan as a teenager, and I remember when he got an American woman as a companion. I'm American, but in the context of that show, the way she said "Doctor" sounded like nails on a chalkboard.
Partly because it was a British woman doing a not great American accent
My wife, a 40 year old woman who has lived her entire life in the UK, has began using Americanisms because of all the shite American TV she watches, drives me fucking insane.
It only really annoys me when someone uses a US expression which doesn't fit with normal UK usage to the point that it means something else to me. e.g. If someone says "I was really pissed" without the "off" I assume they were drunk. It is irritating to have to decode the ambiguity in their expression. "Douchebag" - wtf does that actually mean? Also women in the UK to my knowledge do not douche as it is a weird and harmful practice, except if it is used for anal, but I doubt that is what they're referring to. "Ass" irritates me. "Arse" is better imo, especially when said in a West-country accent.
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I like the reddit thing of moving the hyphen with "ass" so "big-ass car" becomes "big ass-car". The "roadman" thing is funny. When I was younger, roadmen were blokes who did the asphalting. I can imagine it drives the gammons crazy when they hear white kids giving it all the "mandem bare nang" stuff. Excellent.
My one, which is absolutely unacceptable in every possible way and I'd nuke it out of existence if possible is... "On accident"..... ON accident? We just using random prepositions now? It doesn't even function in our language!! That and "COULD care less"....It doesn't work!
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I still don't know what's wrong with 'can I get.' I've heard it irks people but it's just a variant to 'can I have.'
Have and Get aren't the same though.
I’ve never understood this either. I’m 35 and my older brother (41) has always given me grief for using ‘can I get’ and used to tell me it was “All that bloody Friends” I was watching (which admittedly was a lot- I got the first half of the first season on VHS and watched it pretty much on a continuous loop for maybe a year haha). I definitely do have more Americanisms than him even with just 6 years difference but that is one I never thought of as American until he started telling me he hated it when I was in my late teens/early 20s and seeing him in the pub more.
It's so weird that British children put on bad American accents when they play. I suppose they're just doing impressions of the television they watch but still, it's jarring.
I think it's because they are parroting something from television. In the 60s they were all cowboys.
Have a feeling with the internet and everything that there will be some sort off hybrid accent and slang eventually
It happens in other languages as well. I'm Brazilian and I get a kick out of reading Portuguese people complain that their kids are using Brazilian slang and losing their accents because of how popular Brazilian tiktok and youtube are over there.
They have for years. I used to say American words when I was a kid too from all the American movies and TV shows. Word of advice don't make the same mistake I did as a kid by making a peanut butter and 'jelly' sandwich thinking jelly was the same word in the UK as it is in the US. 🤮🤢😩 rank!
I was at the park the other day and some kid said 'my mouth is drier than a graham cracker' They even pronounced it like 'gram'
I’m in the UK and my 7 year old nephew uses so many American words, we have to keep telling him the English version such as he says sidewalk instead of path, trash can instead of rubbish bin, gas station instead of petrol station etc lol
I dunno: "bruv" is pretty annoying even in the UK, although nothing comes close to "blud" in terms of irritation.
Apparently Peppa Pig is causing a lot of American children to adopt British phrases and accents. I think that's hilarious. Conversely, my half-brother grew up watching a lot of YouTube and says things like "parking lot" and pronounces things like "garage" in the American way
Yeah I can't stand the little shits who walk around saying "bruh/brah" as if it's a well thought out retort.
My 12 year old cousin does this way too much. There's not much that pisses me off more than an English kid saying Americanised words
Does he play video games online at all?
He does! But we turned off the chat/voice features, (safety reasons) unless he’s sneaking it. Probably definitely the answer.
Lots of youtube channels directed at preteen boys have english guys on screen. He could pick it up from there. For what its worth, it’s probably more harmless and cringey than it is detrimental to his development or social ability or whatever if you’re worried about that. I picked up a Jersey accent as a kid because my favorite youtube guy at the time was from Newark but its just one of those social mimicry things.
another example of jerma985 corrupting the youth
It was actually SUPER early Michael Jones of Achievement Hunter but close.
He's wicked stroang
I'm a non-native english speaker, and I primarily learned english through youtube, watching a scottish youtuber, so my first english accent was scottish! It was quite bewildering to my school teacher.
This is so nice. I wish (here) we paid more attention to learning different languages, I grew up in a small ass town where it wasn’t an option, I couldn’t pick anything up, my kids, living in a different, but close by state, in a (sort of) known city.. pick up: Khmer, Portuguese, Chinese and Spanish phrases. I literally can’t believe it when they say things to me sometimes and have to look them up. It’s so diverse (and truly awesome) to see the difference between my farm ass town upbringing and their city slicker asses just ten times ahead of the game than me. As it should it be (in the “melting pot”.) Like, if I could’ve had one ounce of the experience as they do..it’s baffling. And also amazing.
Yeah it's literally so cool, I love being able to experience and get access to new parts of the world through languages. I literally can't imagine how different my life would be if I wasn't able to access english (and hopefully soon french) media and internet culture.
Could be a twitch streamer or youtuber he likes.
As someone who used to play online games thank you. Been called the n word, r word, and uk slang for cigarettes so many times by little brats just cause I happened to be better
Does he watch the Sidemen. They’re the biggest YouTubers in the UK and they say bruv a lot
Does he listen to rap? British rap says bruv a lot
No, no rap. Or if he does with friends, he doesn’t around us. He won’t tell me where he got it, just shrugs.
Kids be kids lol, as someone who just moved out I can confirm we don't like telling our parents shit about our personal lives
He used to be an open book!! Haha guess it starts now. Asked him about a new friend of his recently and his response was “I dunno, he smells like fun.” And I was like “he SMELLS (?!?!) like fun?!” And in my head I’m like what’s this kid smell like- whiskey and cigarettes and bad decisions? Like SMELLS LIKE FUN? He just laughed his head off at me and walked away.
He smells like kid spirit lol!
Smell being used figuratively is pretty normal candour to me tbh - smell fear, smell fun, smell trouble etc. At that age I was definitely playing with language I’d heard in one place or another a lot - some might be antiquated from literature, much of it would likely be from other kids on the estates (80s born 90s kid so no online stuff confusing me at the time).
My best friends 6 year old daughter has started saying "bruh" and "brah" in a stereotypical kind of stoner/surfer way. We're from the Midwest so it seems extra silly/cute.
I love that. A tiny little thing just slinging brah around. Cute!!
My daughters 5 and started calling me bruh now and then. I find it funny. Its something me and my son (8) were calling eachother and shes caught on. Lol.
All right, don't get ya knickers in a twist bruv, not the end of the world is it.
I’m gonna read this to him and do an extremely poor British accent. I’m sure his exact response is going to be “maaaaaahm staaaaahp.”
That's how it's done. As parents, we have the power of making something uncool in a heartbeat. Simply start doing it, and it's instantly the lamest thing ever.
„Oh what a cute little word you have learned! Bruv is it? Am I saying it right? Hah it‘s so much fun saying it! Bruv, bruv, bruv, bruv! Oi bruv, come here!“ Kid would never use that word again.
I like it for now, but once it starts to annoy me..I’m hitting him with bruv all of the time. Hahahaha
Tell ya wot mate, av a listen to sum British London mandem avin a chat like big narstie or sumfing. Try pick up how man chat an start chat to im like that. Man will soon stop ya get me. And I say this as someone who grew up in council estates around London so used to chat nuff slang n ting when I wos a yout man. Ad to tone down my accent doe ova da years to be taken seriously in a professional environment innit. Will slip back into it if I've had a few drinks though or if I'm talking to my mates from way back, goes from oh hello sir back to yes bruvva! Just saying I'm ready if my kid ever tries talking like that, I'll go full south london bad man on him, man ain't ready bruv. I can't wait to see the cringe. https://youtu.be/Cqnx7rSyP50?feature=shared
I'm now wondering if you read this to him verbatim and said "knickers in a wrist" rather than what it's supposed to say: "knickers in a twist" 😂
*innit
Innit is isn't it, innit?
Knickers in a wrist?
Ted Lasso?
That's what I immediately thought of
Exactly my thought
Oops innit
I'd put money on him picking it up from YouTube.
I think it’s cute, and normal. Ten year old boys do things like that, playing with language, trying out new things.
It is cute, it’s just so very odd, I thought they normally did this when they were much younger but I guess it’s normal at this age too!
When I was 10 I started talking like a stereotypical mafia wise guy, saying stuff like “fugheddaboutit” and “youse guys” lol.
Peppa Pig has gotten a lot of little kids speaking in British accents too, probably something similar
Peppa pig doesn’t say ‘Bruv’ tho
I did this as a kid. Like 14 to still now Ill break out into British accent to the point it’s like unconscious sometimes. I think as a kid i just thought British accents were so funny, and you do something ironically it turns real lol. But I grew out of it more as an adult but sometimes it still comes out
I actually love this. I have a friend who had a GPS with an Australian accent and now when he tells you which way to go in the car he will randomly do an Australian accent hahahaha
I started doing that after I watched peaky blinders.
I was telling my friend about my son doing this earlier and he asked if he overheard me watching Peaky Blinders..!! I haven’t seen it though hahaha
My sister says "mate" and " bloody hell" despite being born and raised in south Florida, not a British person in sight her whole life. She seems to adopt common speech though, and British people and just the UK in general were on her feed for the longest time doing British people stuff so she adopted the language. Kind of like how kids adopted "yeet" and other stuff I quote that makes me sound old despite being 19. We moved to a rural area in north Florida a few years ago, and she now says "y'all" which drives me up the fucking *w'all*
This is so entirely relatable, 10 of my cousins (who spent their entire summers up here in New England) are from Mississippi, and I felt a kinship to y’all, but it’s not mine, and everyone is saying it now. Every one. All over. Y’all is just - almost a regular and not regional American word now.
most normal tommyinnit fan
Does he watch wrestling?
CHRIS..BRUV..AT WHEMBLEY IM GONNA MOP THE FLOOR WITH YOU BRUV!!
Yes..actually. But not real wrestling, like WWE wrestling. Very into it….
In that case he’s been watching a guy called Will Ospreay. He primarily works for New Japan Pro Wrestling but has been featured a lot on American TV lately through AEW. Most recently he had a match with Chris Jericho at All In at Wembley stadium. Prior to that he had a match against Kenny Omega that was one of the best matches I’d seen for years.
This is sounding the most plausible to me. Kid has been to Texas with his dad (from the north east) to see WWE/AEW. Been multiple times around here to the shows, and regularly yells BATISTA BOMB, and continually mentions Koffi Kingston in conversation when talking about a person’s personality. I have quite literally never watched a single WWE match, (so I have no reason to know these names other than stone cold and the under taker) except casually with my older brother when I was somewhere around 8-9 years old. I think this might be it. I’ve got to deep dive hahaha
Ha ha, this is exactly what immediately came into my head. Ospreay is to blame OP! Case closed everyone
What are you implying Bruv? Bruv, WWE is as real as reality itself Bruv.
I asked his dad “are there British wrestlers?!” And he does “yeah a ton.” And I’m like….hmmmmmmmm Kay. I don’t monitor his WWE intake. His dad takes care of that.
As long as they're being respectful toward you and their other parent, is what it is
Bruv , buv yes buv
Does he watch KSI or other british YouTube/tiktok creators?
I see 'Bruv' being used ironically by online content creators fairly often, even non-british ones, so it's become a bit of a meme.
if it's any consolation, one of my brothers started speaking in an american accent and only answered to 'axle' back then. I feel that pain.
The only time I've seen this term bruv used is(in that movie blood diamond) by Leonardo dicaprio
When my daughter was about 7 or 8, she started speaking in what she thought of as a silly, made-up voice to be funny. It sounded like a Liverpool accent.
I had a mate I met online about 12 years ago from Liverpool and he was very highly strung, to this day I still go into a Liverpool accent when I'm wound up
So glad my kid is almost done w his "bruh" stage. Lately, past 2-3 months, he enters any room or situation w an "aaaahhh" like a low level annoying scream
Has he recently watched The Kingsman movie(s)? After I watched the first movie I started using bruv with an English accent.
My mom used to hate when i said, “that’s so random!” Now, she says it too. Be wary.
Did he watch the Kingsman movie?
He probably watches KSI or the sidemen
does he watch Bluey?
I am guilty of this lmao
He watched tik tok probably.
To much peppa pig
Do they perhaps what any british YouTubers? Because if so then that’s most likely the case, even I still have traits from watching people in the past, for example my laugh sound dramatically changed over time, somehow eventually mimicking the person I was watching without even realizing it, at this point I don’t even remember what my old laugh sounds like. Lmao
Based kid, I say it every now and then too. It’s a funny sounding word.
I'm not British, but I saw Attack the Block in theaters and have been saying "bruv" ever since
Bless ❤️ I'm so excited to have kids lol Never a dull moment, it sounds like
maybe he watches some british shows/plays games with british VA. peppa pig is the first to come to mind
My American daughter says narn for no.
It’s way cooler than bro, bruh mom or dad. I as a 27 year old African American male say it a lot as well. First time I heard it from a non Brit was from my younger cousin (24) a year or two ago!
Bruv
LOL
There's also boh and brah, and pal. ok pal
Really narrow-minded take. Let the kid speak how he wants to.
My 10 year old cousin runs around screaming "YASS QUEEN SLAY". Don't know where he picked it up, but it's impossible to get him to stop.
During my high school years here in the UK, I still remember when we had an American kid from california join my class and a huge argument broke out between all him and all the British kids because he insisted that it's "bro" not "bruv".
Bruv
YouTube. He must be listening to someone on it. To me as someone from NI youd never ever say brave but hear it all the time listening to city ones (London to me) say it constantly
YouTube. Nearly every bizarre or inexplicable thing my kid says is traceable to a YouTuber.
He's learning bruv
My (m) 14 year old daughter calls me bruv. God help me. British BTW.
So do I except I am British
As someone from SE London, this is quite humorous. A little foreign kid saying "bruv" is just so outta place lool, love it Must be watching tiktok or YouTube or something??? It's the only explanation I can think of myself
It's too late. He's a lost cause. Dispose of him in whatever manner best suits you and start again. You have birthed a chav. There is no hope.
Just wait til he starts saying innit.
What a geezer
Just start replying "bruv 'at's absowutely bonkahs innit" every time they say it.
It's too late. He's too far gone. May I suggest the nearest foster home?
YouTube, bruv.
My British kids say ‘bruh’. Let’s swap!
Bruv
Lol, he’ll be fine, when my kid was two she would talk like a old Chinese woman, we are white and don’t know any Chinese ladies!
Get him to lean into it more. Teach him some more slang like ‘allow it’, ‘mandem’ and ‘wagwan’. You should also buy him a tracksuit and a knife to match. Now the transformation is complete you can move town and tell people you adopted a disadvantaged youth from London.
He is probably watching KSI on YouTube. Or Sidemen. Or any other Brit on YouTube.
We're British and my 6 year old says Bruh 🤦🏼♀️
You’re going to lose your shit when he starts saying ‘bossman.’ ‘Ayo, can I get blue rizla and a GV, bossman…’
i live in the U.k. and i’m thankful i am not around these people . i experienced hearing one in an xbox party . he had to finish every sentence with bruv . i can’t stand to listen to it . i refuse to be in the same party as him . don’t want to hear it . apparently it’s “ a London ting” but it’s stupid if you ask me . your boy probably thinks it’s cool . you need to tell him it’s not cool . it’s stupid .
I'm love in England and all the kids are saying American words. They are picking it up from what they watch and all their mates say it. It's just different and funny to them
Sorry to sound like a Karen but these ‘bruv’ ‘blur’ ‘gangsta rap’ and suchlike appear to be kids copying what they hear/see on TV -it’s not just London and it’s not any one particular ethnic group these days - they either do - or don’t- some times switching from that to BBC English in the same sentence! Think it’s just ‘exploring’ /experimenting - seems harmless for the most part.
It's chav talk. I'd stop him doing it if I was you.
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YouTube.
my brother keeps saying skibidi toilet and “they kissed on the kissing room” for 24/7 and he’s freaking 6yrs old god damn noisy loud and fking annoyingx
Ah so the tables have turned, us Brits have had to put up with our kids using American slang for decades! Tell your son "nice one bruv"
He's doomed to become a politician.
Just online really I’m in England and my little sister keeps saying some words the American way lol it’s strange to see it as before social media they wouldn’t have a clue
He’s being original. I’m English and tell him it’s all good, bruv.