Dialect part 3

[ladyofastolat]

Okay, here is a UK version of the dialect meme, with questions added by Bunn, Steepholm, Muuranker, Philmophlegm, Segh and Amalion. Anyone who feels like doing it is free to add extra questions

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[steepholm]

Context: Hampshire for first 18 years, followed by relatively short stints in Surrey, York and Cambridge, followed by 18 more in Bristol. Parents: father grew up in Kingston-Upon-Thames, mother in Wrexham

[ladyofastolat]

The "daps" thing interests me. According to several websites I've just looked at, it's a specifically Bristol term, derived from the Bristol-based factory that made them, called Dunlop Athletic Plimsolls (though this is one of those definitions that I'm inclined to be dubious about). However, the term had clearly spread as far as a small village in north Gloucestershire - though the nearby small town hadn't heard of it.

[steepholm]

Interesting, bain't it? And there's a T-shirt, of course... http://www.beast-clothing.com/order.html

[phina_v]

It was pretty much exclusively daps in Highworth (near Swindon) and Bromham (between Devizes and Chippenham) too. I certainly never thought of them as anything else until moving to Bournemouth and not being understood.

[ladyofastolat]

re. your "veeee!", segh, elsewhere in this thread, remembers "Oh vee!" in these circumstances, so there's at least one other person. I can't find it in The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, though.

[steepholm]

*goes to look* So she does! It's a relief to know I didn't dream it.

You're clearly going to have to don the Opie mantle and produce an updated version of Language and Lore. With an "Expanded to Include 'Oh Vee!'" sticker on the front, of course.

Belatedly joining in...

[jane_somebody]

Re. 28: Oh, we said "Veee!" too at first school; I'd completely forgotten till you mentioned it, but now I can hear it in memory very clearly. Went to school in Southampton starting in the mid-seventies, for context. From the pronunciation/stress, I rather doubt it comes from the Jewish, as segh suggests; I like your "Fie" suggestion better, but goodness knows!