Up here in the North East we have a lot of unique words and phrases But do the public know what the words mean. Well we took to the streets again with another list full of North East words and phrases and asked people to go through and explain what each words means. Let’s see how they did.
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00:00 So David, I've given you that list of North East words and phrases.
00:02 I want you to go from top to bottom, see each word and what you think they mean.
00:06 And I'll tell you if you're right at the end.
00:07 Yeah, I read bonny lad.
00:10 That's just asking somebody how they are.
00:13 Kip, that's asleep.
00:14 Got no idea what mozzie is, unless it's a mosquito.
00:17 Yeah. Sand dancers, anybody from South Shields.
00:21 Browned up? No, no idea.
00:24 Clatter, if you clatter into somebody here, you bump into them or whatever.
00:28 And if you did, you did.
00:30 Yeah, I know what they are.
00:32 Yeah. Yeah.
00:32 Apart from, apart from
00:33 brown, brown, brown.
00:37 So we'd say like you were brought up, but in our accent it sounds like, oh you're brought up.
00:40 Yeah, I read bonny lad.
00:43 Everything go OK with you?
00:45 Kip, go to sleep or have a sleep.
00:47 Mozzie, I have got no idea.
00:51 Sand dancers, I'm not quite sure either.
00:53 Brought up?
00:57 No, I've never.
00:59 I don't think I've ever heard that one.
01:00 Clatter, making noise.
01:02 And you did, you did.
01:04 So mozzie is a mosquito.
01:06 Oh, right. Well, that's what it sounded like.
01:08 I thought, right, OK.
01:10 Sand dancers is someone who's from South Shields.
01:12 So Ben, I've given you that list of North East words and phrases.
01:16 I want you to go from top to bottom, see each word and what you think
01:20 each of them means, and I'll tell you if you're right at the end.
01:22 And so the first one is, yeah, I read bonny lad, which is good.
01:26 Like, hello, good morning. How you doing, mate?
01:28 Kip, which is having a nap, have a sleep.
01:31 Mozzie, I guess that's like a mosquito.
01:35 It's not mosquitoes, it'll be wee flying bugs.
01:38 Sand dancers, that's people from South Shields.
01:41 Brought up?
01:44 Oh, brought up, brought up.
01:46 How are you always?
01:48 Clatter, or it could be a knock or a punch or a bit of scuff.
01:53 And the deed, it could be you're dead.
01:56 So Ben, I've given you that list of North East words and phrases.
01:59 I want you to go from top to bottom, see each word and what you think they mean.
02:03 And I'll tell you if you're right at the end.
02:05 OK, all right.
02:06 Yeah, I read bonny lad, just says like a greeting.
02:10 Hello. Yeah.
02:12 Kip means sleep.
02:15 Mozzie.
02:16 I'm not too sure on that one, like
02:20 I think of it as a mosquito.
02:23 And sand dancers is somebody from south of the water, South Shields.
02:27 We brought up.
02:30 I've never I haven't heard that one before, if I'm perfectly honest.
02:34 I'm guessing it means worked up or something like that.
02:37 And clutter means to like crash or bang.
02:41 Indeed, and in that sort of sense means like.
02:49 Like he's very like sort of deed, kind of like putting an emphasis on something.
02:54 Yeah, it can mean that and also just means dead.
02:57 So when you see someone's deeds, you'd say someone's dead.
02:59 All right. OK, fair enough.
03:02 I didn't I didn't want to be morbid about it.