Growing up in Birmingham (with Welsh parents) we certainly had tip-tops (long thin frozen fruit juice) and Jublies but they were pyramid shaped frozen juice things, wrapped in a sort of waxed paper
In German our word for Welsh tip-tops literally translates as "water ice". If somebody in German is "bekifft" he is under the influence of drugs. To have a scram is very similiar to the German word "Schramme" which translated means the same. I really enjoy your videos. Diolch for keeping up the good work. I like that you don't just upload videos to learn Welsh but also to learn Welsh-English. Perfect for Do-it-yourself learners with no native speakers available.🙂
Family from the East Midlands, Leicester - Nottingham area. Christmas decorations were referred to as 'Trimmings'. 'Tamping' is pressing loose material down by tapping or lightly hammering it .
Daps I think comes from the acronym "Dunlop Athletic Playing Shoes". My mother tried to buy a pair of daps in Great Yarmouth and the assistant looked at her like she had two heads.😂 There's an expression that I haven't heard for a long time which is similar to "moidered" which is moiddered or moithered. It is usually means that someone is upset and confused. For example "You've got me all moithered now" Potch. To potch means to mess about with or tinker. "What are you potching with by there?" . Got to keep the "by" in there. Potch can also mean mash made with potatoes and swede at least here in the Rhondda Valley. I'm not sure about this one but if someone is getting annoyed they are "Getting their hair off". Tamping is normally used when flattening a piece ground generally but your examples I think are only used in Wales. Tamping a ball may be as well. I don't think you mentioned that. Now jest is a versatile one. "It happened now jest (in the past). Or I'll do it now jest (in the future). Not to be confused with Just now. I've enjoyed your videos a lot.👍
I Knew a lot of those, about a quarter of them are used in the midlands, but then we do have a large Welsh population, and aren't that far from you, so maybe thats why!
I am an American with Welsh and German ancestry. My family uses a lot of these words. I am guilty of using the word Never and trimming the tree. I just notice when I get strange looks from my friends. Lol
I just thought of some more words that we use around here at least. Gambo. A sort of simple "vehicle" made from parts of an old pram and a plank of wood. Some people call a soap box cart. Jibbons (probably spelled with 'sh' in the beginning) . Spring onions.😁
The only ones I recognised by their usage in Flintshire were Tip Top, scrubber, moider( a derivative of mither, to aggravate), half and half and rissole. Daps were plimsolls or pumps. A couple was always two. A few was more than two.
My father is Welsh, and I was born in Australia. There's a lot of phrases I've picked up from him. I'm teaching myself the language currently and I'm picking up on all the things I do that are quite Welsh, such as enunciating the second last syllable in sentences. Combine that with the Australian lilt, and I'm sure I have a very annoying accent!! We have rissoles in Australia, they're solid meat usually
Tip tops 🌟 finally I feel validated 😂 my partner from Nottingham calls them ice poles... 😐 Putting the trimmings up 🎄 My mum actually bought me new daps the other day 🏅😂 Scrubber, tamping, half and half 😛 I love chips and rice myself with curry lol, omg my dear old Nan used to make beef Rissoles...memories... Never heard moider before though or kift
I can remember being told to scram or scarper. A childhood in Wales and NW England. We always seemed to be running away from some minor mishap or other.
Southeast here: a couple = 2, a few = 3 (or more. ) I have never heard of "trimming up" but we do say" would you like all the trimmings ( if you have a roast dinner or meal) the trimmings is everything on offer with the meal. Scram=scarper (leave quickly) I have never heard of "tip tops", we would call them "ice pops." Scrubber = a woman who is promiscuous, who puts it about alot ( I was trying to be polite) but if we say " scrubber woman" then that is a "charwoman " someone who cleans. I have heard of "rissoles" here and have bought them here, very delicious. "Half and half" we also say here, offered to those who can't make up their mind if they want chips or rice , we would then say you can have half and half. I have heard of "daps" but I don't think it is something we would say (especially around my neck of the woods) we would call them "plimsolls " or "pumps" we would say someone looked "dapper " smart, sharp dressed.
I loved this video!!! I wonder if kift is slang for skewiff? My Cardiff born Dad always called Plimsolls daps and when I asked why, he said it was because they made the sound "dap, dap, dap, dap, dap" when you wore them 🤣🤣🤣
I thought "daps" was a "fishing fly" when dapping? 🤔 But I just recently found out that daps is also used to describe a nontraditional handshake used by black American soldiers during Vietnam war.
Trimming the tree, as in Christmas tree, Daps and the exclamation of Never I have heard this side of the Bristol Channel too so Somerset people aren't that far distant from the Welsh as some may think
I am an American but my family has German and Welsh ancestry. My family uses a lot of these phrases. Like trimming the tree, scram, NEVER, (I am guilty of that one). We call people a bottom scrubber, or bottom feeder it could be either sex, meant for a user or bum. We use tamping mad, we eat Rissoles they are so good. Yes a couple for us does not mean just 2. I just know when people look at me funny because most people do not use these words anymore in America. I never thought where it came from though.
This is a conversation you need to have with the author of the article we were reacting to. And our reactions can only be based on our own experiences. I would love to make videos with people from North Wales, Mid Wales etc to get their point of view.
Growing up in Birmingham (with Welsh parents) we certainly had tip-tops (long thin frozen fruit juice) and Jublies but they were pyramid shaped frozen juice things, wrapped in a sort of waxed paper
In German our word for Welsh tip-tops literally translates as "water ice". If somebody in German is "bekifft" he is under the influence of drugs. To have a scram is very similiar to the German word "Schramme" which translated means the same.
I really enjoy your videos. Diolch for keeping up the good work. I like that you don't just upload videos to learn Welsh but also to learn Welsh-English. Perfect for Do-it-yourself learners with no native speakers available.🙂
Family from the East Midlands, Leicester - Nottingham area. Christmas decorations were referred to as 'Trimmings'. 'Tamping' is pressing loose material down by tapping or lightly hammering it .
I have heard of all except kift growing up in Merthyr Tydfil bringing back memories after living in Australia for the last 50 years
Daps I think comes from the acronym "Dunlop Athletic Playing Shoes". My mother tried to buy a pair of daps in Great Yarmouth and the assistant looked at her like she had two heads.😂
There's an expression that I haven't heard for a long time which is similar to "moidered" which is moiddered or moithered. It is usually means that someone is upset and confused. For example "You've got me all moithered now"
Potch. To potch means to mess about with or tinker. "What are you potching with by there?" . Got to keep the "by" in there. Potch can also mean mash made with potatoes and swede at least here in the Rhondda Valley.
I'm not sure about this one but if someone is getting annoyed they are "Getting their hair off".
Tamping is normally used when flattening a piece ground generally but your examples I think are only used in Wales. Tamping a ball may be as well. I don't think you mentioned that.
Now jest is a versatile one. "It happened now jest (in the past). Or I'll do it now jest (in the future). Not to be confused with Just now.
I've enjoyed your videos a lot.👍
I lived in Pembrokeshire for many years and kift was a very popular word. Also the word caffled meaning tangled
How cool to have your mother on the video. She's very stylish. Hello Jason's Mum!
I Knew a lot of those, about a quarter of them are used in the midlands, but then we do have a large Welsh population, and aren't that far from you, so maybe thats why!
I originally come from North Wales. Only recognised 'tamping' from this list but that mainly round Aberystwyth where I moved to in my late teens.
I am an American with Welsh and German ancestry. My family uses a lot of these words. I am guilty of using the word Never and trimming the tree. I just notice when I get strange looks from my friends. Lol
I just thought of some more words that we use around here at least.
Gambo. A sort of simple "vehicle" made from parts of an old pram and a plank of wood. Some people call a soap box cart.
Jibbons (probably spelled with 'sh' in the beginning) . Spring onions.😁
The only ones I recognised by their usage in Flintshire were Tip Top, scrubber, moider( a derivative of mither, to aggravate), half and half and rissole. Daps were plimsolls or pumps. A couple was always two. A few was more than two.
We always put the trimmings on the tree at Christmas in my youth & l was brought up in Holywell !!
My father is Welsh, and I was born in Australia. There's a lot of phrases I've picked up from him.
I'm teaching myself the language currently and I'm picking up on all the things I do that are quite Welsh, such as enunciating the second last syllable in sentences. Combine that with the Australian lilt, and I'm sure I have a very annoying accent!!
We have rissoles in Australia, they're solid meat usually
Tip tops 🌟 finally I feel validated 😂 my partner from Nottingham calls them ice poles... 😐
Putting the trimmings up 🎄
My mum actually bought me new daps the other day 🏅😂
Scrubber, tamping, half and half 😛 I love chips and rice myself with curry lol, omg my dear old Nan used to make beef Rissoles...memories...
Never heard moider before though or kift
I can remember being told to scram or scarper. A childhood in Wales and NW England. We always seemed to be running away from some minor mishap or other.
Mam-gu, more South Wales possibly? - we usually say Nain for grandmother in North Wales.
Yes it’s a South Wales word. You don’t hear Nain very often here.
We have rissoles in New Zealand, breadcrumbed meat patties.
They sound a bit different to Welsh rissoles. They also sound delicious.
Southeast here:
a couple = 2, a few = 3 (or more. )
I have never heard of "trimming up" but we do say" would you like all the trimmings ( if you have a roast dinner or meal) the trimmings is everything on offer with the meal.
Scram=scarper (leave quickly)
I have never heard of "tip tops", we would call them "ice pops."
Scrubber = a woman who is promiscuous, who puts it about alot ( I was trying to be polite) but if we say " scrubber woman" then that is a "charwoman " someone who cleans.
I have heard of "rissoles" here and have bought them here, very delicious.
"Half and half" we also say here, offered to those who can't make up their mind if they want chips or rice , we would then say you can have half and half.
I have heard of "daps" but I don't think it is something we would say (especially around my neck of the woods) we would call them "plimsolls " or "pumps" we would say someone looked "dapper " smart, sharp dressed.
I loved this video!!! I wonder if kift is slang for skewiff? My Cardiff born Dad always called Plimsolls daps and when I asked why, he said it was because they made the sound "dap, dap, dap, dap, dap" when you wore them 🤣🤣🤣
DAPS were issued by the Army until the 1990s (and called that) supposed to have come from the "Dunlop Athletic Plymsole"
There is another theory for the name daps. I’m going to talk about it in an up coming video.
I thought "daps" was a "fishing fly" when dapping? 🤔
But I just recently found out that daps is also used to describe a nontraditional handshake used by black American soldiers during Vietnam war.
My Nain would say “ stop moidering me. “ Which I understood as , stop hassling me.
Trimming the tree, as in Christmas tree, Daps and the exclamation of Never I have heard this side of the Bristol Channel too so Somerset people aren't that far distant from the Welsh as some may think
"A couple doesn't mean 2 in Wales" been trying to explain this for years!!!
Kift used in Pembrokeshire ....A person who cannot grasp what you are are trying to explain to them, we say....he'she are kift.
I am an American but my family has German and Welsh ancestry. My family uses a lot of these phrases. Like trimming the tree, scram, NEVER, (I am guilty of that one). We call people a bottom scrubber, or bottom feeder it could be either sex, meant for a user or bum. We use tamping mad, we eat Rissoles they are so good. Yes a couple for us does not mean just 2.
I just know when people look at me funny because most people do not use these words anymore in America. I never thought where it came from though.
Couple not 2 ??? !n Wales were ???
Wales is not just South Wales so get your fact right do your research !!
This is a conversation you need to have with the author of the article we were reacting to. And our reactions can only be based on our own experiences. I would love to make videos with people from North Wales, Mid Wales etc to get their point of view.