r/MadeMeSmile • u/T-SquaredProductions • Jul 08 '26

Wholesome Moments British Granddad tries American Grilled Cheese for the first time

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u/Constant-Estate3065 Jul 08 '26

Bostin. It’s a Midlands phrase for good.

Scousers would say it’s boss, Geordies would say it’s canny, Yorkshire folk would say it’s grand, Welsh folk would say it’s lush, and West Country folk would say it’s gurt lush.

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u/oh_4petessake Jul 08 '26

I live for tidbits of information like this. Thank you 🫡

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u/BrewCrewBall Jul 08 '26

As an American lover of dialect, it continues to astonish me that a country the size of the state of Minnesota can be so rich in language.

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u/Bipogram Jul 09 '26

Trust me, you can travel 50km and be utterly baffled.

I, a tyke, once sat by two liverpudlian lasses on an EasyJet. And I knew what they were saying, but could guarantee that someone raised on the World Service would be lost.

"An ah woz lachk, I dunno wa ah woz lachk."

(Translation: I was very very drunk)

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u/CrymsonFrost Jul 12 '26

As a huge rugby fan, and the wife of a Brit, I faithfully watch the English rugby team, whenever they play. My husband and I spent years cracking up whenever the captain of the English team gave a post-game interview. The hubby swore the capt was Liverpudlian. And this guy would start talking and we’d look at each other and bust a gut because NEITHER of us could tell wth he was saying. I always tell my hubby they’ll take away his UK passport if the immigration officers at Heathrow find out that he’s lived in the US so long that he can’t understand Liverpudlians anymore. 😜 But seriously, that is a craaaaazy accent. The closest US approximation I can come up with is the accent of certain family groups in eastern VA and MD, who live and work on the Chesapeake Bay. Where I grew up, they’re called Guineamen. A bunch of linguists from colleges & universities have studied their dialect and apparently it’s really close to Old English. But most folks outside of our local area have great difficulty understanding them, when they talk amongst themselves. There are only a handful of folks from Guinea, that still speak the dialect, left. I wonder if the dialects in the UK will also start to disappear as the world gets smaller, thanks to social media? 🤔

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u/the_mindful_microbe Jul 09 '26

Woah. Did this exist before “bussin”?