Heard on trash TV: Britspeak

[Dan Goncharoff]

I believe your "chinky" is in fact "cheeky".

What happens at the fifth question, when all the limbs are gone?

DanG


On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Spoken by a woman *from Burfield(?) / Warfield(?) / ?field says,
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> "I would have given my right _leg_ to know the answer."
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> Like the time that a Brit friend said to me,
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> "Why, that should be right up your _street_!"
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> Do Brits do this just to mess with our minds? ;-)
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> *(Later, the woman describes her family as being made up of "tough
> cockneys," if that's any help.)
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> Also heard:
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> "He's _chinky_(?)"
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> in context, equivalent to.
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> "He's _lively_"
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> et sim., apparently. Said of a child bouncing on a mini-trampoline.
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