I expect 'coupy' could be similar to our courie/coorie, meaning to snuggle down, or into, something or someone? I know what alleyways are, although I doubt we'd use the term very often. We'd probably just say alley. Unless it has another meaning
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I've always used it to indicate I'm crouching down to the ground without actually kneeling. As my dad was very nearly but not quite a Cockney, I'm never quite sure whether some of my sayings are inherited from him or not. I do still say 'blimey' or it isn't 'arf hot.
Very few people can identify my accent accurately although I've lived all my life in either Wiltshire or Somerset. Interestingly, none of my three siblings sound nothing like me! Isn't that odd?
My Dad was a Londoner - born and bred, as were many generations of his family @Lizzie27, and it was always funny hearing him pronounce Scottish words with a slightly 'mixed' accent. He never completely lost his English accent, even though he spent far longer here than he ever did 'darn sarf' The one thing that does grate with me is people who can't do our 'ch' sound, as in loch. He never had any difficulty with it. I bet if asked to pronounce the composer Bach, they can manage it. No difference. We always enjoyed a bit of Cockney rhyming slang [he wasn't quite close enough to be a Cockney either] but my younger daughter can't get her head round it at all. She loves a bit of Del Boy though!
Not a million miles away with your coupy and our coorie. When I hear alleyways, I just think of the Tony Christie song - #Avenues and Alleyways.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
That's a coincidence @Fairygirl. From memory, you had to be born within half a mile of Bow Bells to be a true Cockney, I think my dad was born just outside that length.
Odd, he always loved Scotland and we spent many holidays up there in an old Standard 8, then a 10, and a tiny caravan when my sister was born. He wasn't very sociable and liked very remote places which of course I hated when I was a young teenager!
Funnily enough, my Ancestry DNA results give me 2% Scottish, 16% Sweden and Denmark and 10% Norway amongst others. He would have loved that.
I thought you had to be born within the sound of Bow Bells @Lizzie27, but I expect your distance would give the same result anyway! We always holidayed up north [caravan] when my sis and I were children. I can't tell you how many photos were taken of us looking fed up Easy to smile about it now. I love this country and really couldn't live anywhere else. I'd love to be further north though. Bizzies always says Liverpudlian accent to me @Bee witched. Maybe because of those Harry Enfield characters from the 80s. I agree - most people surely know what it means
Often 'polis' here - as in 'pole iss', with the emphasis on pole.
Ope is an odd one @raisingirl. Is it to do with opening or similar? Maybe we should have a daft thread about different names/words from different parts of the country. Far too jolly for this thread...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
My Mum was Scottish but spent the majority of her life in England. She said 'jab' whereas the Scottish resident parts of the family said 'jag'. I'd never given 'outwith' a second thought as it was in common use in the family, more often used in Scotland but not exclusively.
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I know what alleyways are, although I doubt we'd use the term very often. We'd probably just say alley. Unless it has another meaning
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Very few people can identify my accent accurately although I've lived all my life in either Wiltshire or Somerset. Interestingly, none of my three siblings sound nothing like me! Isn't that odd?
Sorry, that isn't very curmudgeonly.
The one thing that does grate with me is people who can't do our 'ch' sound, as in loch. He never had any difficulty with it. I bet if asked to pronounce the composer Bach, they can manage it. No difference.
We always enjoyed a bit of Cockney rhyming slang [he wasn't quite close enough to be a Cockney either] but my younger daughter can't get her head round it at all. She loves a bit of Del Boy though!
Not a million miles away with your coupy and our coorie.
When I hear alleyways, I just think of the Tony Christie song - #Avenues and Alleyways.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
What word is used in your area for police?
For scousers it's "the bizzies"
I've no idea why, but everyone says it and knows what it means.
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Odd, he always loved Scotland and we spent many holidays up there in an old Standard 8, then a 10, and a tiny caravan when my sister was born. He wasn't very sociable and liked very remote places which of course I hated when I was a young teenager!
Funnily enough, my Ancestry DNA results give me 2% Scottish, 16% Sweden and Denmark and 10% Norway amongst others. He would have loved that.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
We always holidayed up north [caravan] when my sis and I were children. I can't tell you how many photos were taken of us looking fed up
Easy to smile about it now. I love this country and really couldn't live anywhere else. I'd love to be further north though.
Bizzies always says Liverpudlian accent to me @Bee witched. Maybe because of those Harry Enfield characters from the 80s. I agree - most people surely know what it means
Often 'polis' here - as in 'pole iss', with the emphasis on pole.
Ope is an odd one @raisingirl. Is it to do with opening or similar? Maybe we should have a daft thread about different names/words from different parts of the country. Far too jolly for this thread...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...