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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[segh]

Context: Mother cockney but had lived in Leeds and Glasgow, father Irish brought up in Dover, me Sarf London all the way

[bunn]

I wonder it Oh Vee is distantly related to Ugger Vee -> Ach yr Fi which is a Welsh expression of alarm and disgust?

[segh]

Fascinating thought! I remember Jack Black the cobbler in Under Milk Wood is always saying it. I thuught, when I grew up, that it might be from Oh Fie, but I to EE isn't an obvious vowel change - certainly not in South London!

[philmophlegm]

I think that's actually "Ych a fi". It just means 'urggh', or as you would say, "eeuww".

[bunn]

Google pulls up examples of Ach y fi , ych y fi, and ych a fi, including a fairly learned looking article that suggests Ach as the Glamorgan spelling - my version would be Glamorgan, yours presumably North Welsh.

[segh]

I mentioned this one to G., who comes from Essex. He thinks it may come from the Jewish "Oy veh!"

[muuranker]

Context: Mother rural Northamptonshire, father Dukeries (North Nottinghamshire rural), brought up suburban Northampton, but with some time in north Nottinghamshire too. No significant Greek imput that I know of, but I've got some things in common with segh

[muuranker]

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