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The Life and Mind of DamnBlackHeart
This is to help me stay actively writing. So expect to see rants, tips on writing, thoughts on subjects, me complaining of boredom, reviews, anime, movies, video games, conventions, tv shows and whatever life throws at me.
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Anonymous Asked: US English & UK English |
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Anonymous asked: some of those us english and uk english is wrong
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I was setting up the post in my draft folder, but I accidentally click on publish now in the middle of my editing/fixing the chart since I wasn’t finish working on it. I did notice there were a couple of mistakes, such as mixing up the words and/or meaning in the wrong category. At that point too many people were reblogging it and it was too late for me to delete the entire thing.
I don’t know if you’re referring to that or the list in general. If its the list itself, I did say to please keep in mind that the words and slang could’ve changed through out the years and it also depends on the area. Maybe for you something you’ve always known as has never been called by anything else, but for someone else they’ve always known it by another name. So don’t be too quick to declare something as wrong.
A good example of this was when I discovered that a couple of states in America do call the water/drinking fountain a bubbler. There are even articles online by credible sources about it if you don’t believe me.
This chart is suppose to be a starting point. I truly hope that when people actually begin the work on their stories that they take the time to do the research. After all, you can’t write a accurate American or British character if you don’t research exactly where they’re from because each location will have their own slang and terminology. And that’s not even taking into account of the characters’ racial identity, culture, ancestry, religion and social hierarchy because those too factor into how a character speaks.
For example in Texas they have their own lingo. Using ain’t, a contraction for “am not”, “is not”, “has not”, and “have not”. Y’all, a contraction of “you all” and even all y’all for “all of you” when referring to a large group of people. Instead of saying maybe Texans at times will say “might could”, skeeters instead of “mosquitos”, over yonder instead of “over there“, pitch a hissy fit instead of saying to “throw a tantrum”, and so on.
It also wouldn’t be surprising if you were to travel to the other southern states and find that they too have their own local jargon. It’s the same way in the UK, which is made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. So trying to compile a list of all UK’s slang and terminology is difficult because there’s always going to be more than one answer depending on who you’re talking to.
For example someone from west of Scotland will say wean (young child) or even wee yin (little one), but someone from the east coast of Scotland and in North England will say bairns (child) instead.
In South West England (specifically in Wiltshire), they would call a child “babber”, while in Southern England a child is often referred to as a “nipper” or “nippers” when talking about more than one. Apparently, other British words for a child can also be “sprog” and “moppet”.
While in America, a child could be referred to as a “kid” (also ”kiddo; kiddie”), “small fry”, “squirt”, “munchkin”, “young'un”, “ankle-biter”, or sometimes as a “rugrat”. It depends on the location (and sometimes even on the person) because a word for something that you’re familiar with could be completely different in another state or may not be as commonly used by everyone else.
That’s why I asked to please share any differences in the words and/or slang in your area, no matter if it’s in the US or UK. I think if everyone made their own chart and specify the areas they’re referring to we’ll get a more accurate and up-to-date comparison. Because in my search I discovered that some of the information available isn’t recent and what was correct 10, 30 or 50 years ago isn’t accurate now. Some of it was also not clear about the specific location in the US/UK that the words and slang came from, which made it difficult to figured out if it’s commonly used by everyone in the US/UK or if it’s just a small area within it.
 DamnBlackHeart · Thu Mar 10, 2022 @ 12:41am · 0 Comments |
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