Evolving Language.

I heard this conversation between two female shop assistants yesterday.
FSA1 - “Ah wis pure paranoid last night so ah wis”
FSA2 - “Wis he gie’n ye grief again?”
FSA1 - “Well ah jist went like that (gesture of open palms and semi shrug) yer pure muckin’ me aboot again - an’ he went like that (complete shrug/disdainful [...]

Plain English Campaign

I love their website . I have a friend who, in the course of his work, attends many seminars and “workshops” (”Anyone who attends a workshop who isn’t involved in light engineering is a twat!” - Alexei Sayle) He tells me that he and colleagues play “buzzword bingo” where each of them write down ten [...]

Innit?

A teenager reportedly ended up with a cabinet instead of a taxi because she asked directory inquiries for a “cab, innit”. According to The Sun, the Londoner, 19, wanted a taxi to take her to Bristol airport, and first used the Cockney rhyming slang “Joe Baxi”. When the operator told her she couldn’t find anyone [...]

Hondootedly Mossis.

Two ducks crossing a road in Ballymena. The one at the back says “Quack! quack!” the other one says “I’m going as quack as I can!”
I notice an amusing cutting in Private Eye this week. It’s an extract from a Northern Ireland Water Information leaflet which, following a passage in English, offers a translation in [...]