If you can ’t embrace regional dialect, you can kiss my chuddies | Katy Guest
The Oxford English Dictionary ’s inclusion of regional terms shows off what the UK has in common – linguistic ingenuityIn a rare piece of happy news to distract us momentarily from all the chaos, those lovely linguists at the Oxford English Dictionary haveannounced an abundance of new words all taken from regional dialects.The new entries include the Indian-English phrase “kiss my chuddies”; the delicious word “jibbons”, which is what spring onions are called in Wales; and the Scottish words “sitooterie”, which is (obviously) a place to sit out, and “bidie-in” (“a person who lives with his or her partner in a non-marital relationship”), which sure ly should have been in the dictionary ages ago, since the author Val McDermid, a fine connoisseur of the English language, uses it in her Twitter bio.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - Category: Science Authors: Katy Guest Tags: British identity and society Language UK news Reference and languages books Science Social trends Source Type: news