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      Re: Picking up scouse?
      Reply #23: Jul 18, 2009 01:13:43 am
      Reckon everyone's picked up the 'boss' from me.
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      Re: Picking up scouse?
      Reply #24: Jul 18, 2009 01:14:12 am
      Well you are boss, boss.
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      Re: Picking up scouse?
      Reply #25: Jul 18, 2009 01:15:27 am
      Reckon everyone's picked up the 'boss' from me.



      ;)
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      Re: Picking up scouse?
      Reply #26: Jul 18, 2009 01:18:04 am
      Plastic Scousers anyone?

      ::)
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      Re: Picking up scouse?
      Reply #27: Jul 18, 2009 01:19:35 am

      The everton FC Tesco Kirkby Stadium?
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      Re: Picking up scouse?
      Reply #28: Jul 18, 2009 01:20:31 am
      The everton FC Tesco Kirkby Stadium?

      That's the one I was looking for.  ;)
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      Re: Picking up scouse?
      Reply #29: Jul 18, 2009 01:22:13 am
      But words like "la" "bread" (in reference to money) "barney" (in reference to a scrap/fight) are, what I'd consider, solely Scouse words and when people from outside the city start using them I think it's trying to impress. There's predominantly Geordie words like "pet" or Cockney words like "bruv" and Liverpool has their own words which, in my opinion, should be used by people from the city.

      Not sure about 'la'.

      I, just like many other people outside of Liverpool use that occasionally when either messing around or being generally informal. Wouldn't say it's trying to impress at all. Unless you mean when people use the word intending to be serious?
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      Re: Picking up scouse?
      Reply #30: Jul 18, 2009 01:25:09 am
      Not sure about 'la'.

      I, just like many other people outside of Liverpool use that occasionally when either messing around or being generally informal. Wouldn't say it's trying to impress at all. Unless you mean when people use the word intending to be serious?

      No, "la" is a Scouse word.

      When people, from outside the city, use it to a Scouser it is trying to impress. Sort of trying to say "look I'm one of you". Two wools from Widnes saying it to one another isn't trying to impress but saying to a Scouser is in my opinion.
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      Reply #31: Jul 18, 2009 01:28:13 am
      I'm from the Wirral and I say la to loads of people!  Not really trying to impress anyone it's just the way I talk TBH.
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      Reply #32: Jul 18, 2009 01:36:28 am
      No, "la" is a Scouse word.

      When people, from outside the city, use it to a Scouser it is trying to impress. Sort of trying to say "look I'm one of you". Two wools from Widnes saying it to one another isn't trying to impress but saying to a Scouser is in my opinion.

      Hmm.

      I don't neccessarily mean to a scouser though. I just mean to whoever, I live in Cheshire so would you see that as 'trying to impress' if it was between say me and friends? I don't think so at all, because we wouldn't be being serious when saying it.
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      Reply #33: Jul 18, 2009 01:46:21 am
      I've already explained that Ross. If, said to another non-Scouser then it isn't trying to impress. If it is, for example on here, then I see it as trying to impress. I see it as going of your (not you personally, your in the general sense) way to say/type the word la. It's much easier to see this in real life because you can tell easier what's natural and what's put on. And most people I've met from outside of the city of Liverpool who use the word la, make an effort to drop into conversation. They sort of drag it out of themselves.
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      Re: Picking up scouse?
      Reply #34: Jul 18, 2009 03:03:00 am
      I occasionally say 'boss' haven't really picked up any other words yet.
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      Reply #35: Jul 18, 2009 07:34:07 am
      I think La is just a shortened version of Lad which was used with the post war generation my neighbour who is 75 still calls me lad.
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      Reply #36: Jul 18, 2009 07:49:46 am
      Well, I'm not entirely sure about this but I've picked up some words from the forum when I've never used them in my life. I would like to know what 'la' means cause in my country, we use 'la' but it's just a suffix added to a sentence taken from the Malay Language.

      I read Stevie's book and he also has words like 'top man' and 'sharpish'. I probably know what 'top man' means but what exactly does 'sharpish' mean?
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      Reply #37: Jul 18, 2009 08:10:35 am
      We should start a beginers class for our fellow supporters to help them with the finer pionts of our wonderful spoken English(Scouse)dya no worra mean like kidda ;)
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      Reply #38: Jul 18, 2009 08:32:44 am
      Well, as much as Scousers think that 'la' is a scouse word, it is also highly used in the Far East, for example Singaporeans and Malaysians. Its a typical singlish accent, in which I and many of my mates use, words like 'la', 'lor', 'leh', 'wah lao', etc all fall into this category.

      They basically have no meaning, its just typical words Singaporeans use in their daily conversations. For a brief overview on what this la, lor, leh, walao is all about, just check Wikipedia would do.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish

      I am not a fan of using it though, I have it in my accent but I dont type it out. Find it quite unprofessional.
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      Reply #39: Jul 18, 2009 08:35:29 am
      I suppose I've picked up 'boss' from the forum, but I didn't know 'well in' was Scouse, I've always said it. :-\
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      Reply #40: Jul 18, 2009 08:52:27 am
      Ayrton your little fella may come home from his grans with a new lingo,anyway how's he getting on mate.
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      Reply #41: Jul 18, 2009 08:55:17 am
      I think I picked up boss from JD. He likes to use it eh? :D

      And all sorts of other bollocks here I've been using it. My mates were like - where have you heard them from? Gladly I advertised this forum to them, the mancs! :D
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      Re: Picking up scouse?
      Reply #42: Jul 18, 2009 08:59:25 am
      ar dats sound da iz! ;)
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      Re: Picking up scouse?
      Reply #43: Jul 18, 2009 09:25:48 am
      Scouse has a lot of words that Ive only ever heard at home. For example if Im talking about my parents  I say me ma or me da Ive heard that a lot in Liverpool or where scousers would say me arl fella here we'd say me oul lad or oul fella.
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      Re: Picking up scouse?
      Reply #44: Jul 18, 2009 10:04:25 am
      I only use Well in..I like it...got a nice ring to it.

      You'd expect us to become Honorary Scousers considering we spend quite a considerable amount of time on here , every day of our lives.

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      Re: Picking up scouse?
      Reply #45: Jul 18, 2009 10:16:32 am
      But words like "la" "bread" (in reference to money) "barney" (in reference to a scrap/fight) are, what I'd consider, solely Scouse words and when people from outside the city start using them I think it's trying to impress. There's predominantly Geordie words like "pet" or Cockney words like "bruv" and Liverpool has their own words which, in my opinion, should be used by people from the city.

      I'll give you 'la' DLS but 'barney', 'bread' and 'sound' have always been part of the lingo in N.I. Also the word 'pet' is heavily used where i'm from.

      I do get what you're saying about using the 'Scouse' vernacular when one ain't Scouse - i just can't bring myself to use either 'la' or 'boss'; either on or off here. It just doesn't sound, or look, right to me; i don't feel comfortable i suppose.

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