Portsmouth Dialect(Pompey) Words and Phrases [British Accents and Dialects]
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- Опубликовано: 26 апр 2021
- Portsmouth Dialect(Pompey) Words and Phrases [British Accents and Dialects]
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Alroight, mush!
Today, I’m going to be talking about Portsmouth dialect words and phrases also known as Pompey!
Pompey is the dialect used in Portsmouth, which is located in South East England.
Then let’s take a look at this one kind of British accent/dialect, Pompey!
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I think i speak for my city when i say we've fucking made it
Yup
i know that
Fucking love Pompey
I love that his Portsmouth accent just sounds Australian but this is pretty funny as someone from pompey
Play up Pompey, Pompey play up
@@itz_remix3016 ayee
So it wouldn't count as a Portsmouth accent then ?
sounds like someone from bristol.
@@columbiantoad imo it doesn’t
Portsmouth born and bred here:
Mush, Dinlo & Squinny is very accurate. They are used a lot here.
Dayne Tayne, Weeee & Turk Town I've never heard before. Perhaps they're old sayings that have phased out over time.
Lippy Tower we just use to describe the tower itself. We call Gunwharf just "Gunwharf".
most people just say gunny to me haha. Pompey born and bred too.
Depends what parts your from probably
@@coopc643 weeee and dayne tayne are definitely used, usually by people 40+. The other ones nah.
@@mellamotash2365 yh wee definition is
my Nan uses weeeee all the time, if I were to tell her that my friends have been robbed or something else she might find surprising, she’ll go ‘weeeee! That’s terrible!’ Or something to that effect. As for dayne tayne, I haven’t heard many people say it that strongly, but I know a fair few people who say it more like ‘dan tan’ (me included). Never heard of Turk town before either though
All jokes aside, Billy really can help people who want to know or need to know some of these accents.
That was a really good effort at a Pompey accent. It is hard due to it being a mash up of West Country and Cockney and also on that has a history of using Romany terms which seem meaningless to outsiders (that's literally anybody not from Portsea Island itself. You're from Cosham which is literally 3 miles up the road? You may as well be French, mush). Other terms you missed are chavvy from the Romany chavi or chauvi meaning child, gavver for policeman, chore or chaw from the Romany to steal or nick, divvy from the Romany divvi meaning crazy but can be used to mean a bit stupid and "in a cop" or "to cop on" meaning you're angry with someone. So remember: an accent like the lovechild of Chas and Dave and one of the Wurzels, throw in a few Romany words and try and drop some hard T's (but, confusingly, not all - not after S's) and as noted below, the -th sound is like a cockney -f sound. Thanks for the video. Cheers mush.
I’m a Pompey born and bred lass... I love using the words mush, squinny, dinny and dinlo ... this is absolutely brilliant !! PUP!!!!
I remember telling a Northern relative that my son was angry about something...he proper copped I said...he was like what?😂
Yes then, Portsmouth is such a place 👍
People saying they never heard these phrases 🤣 100% heard everyone this has cracked me up thought they was all just normal phrases 😂
Enjoyed this, although Gunwharf Quays is just Gunwharf, with the Lippy/Lipstick Tower being just the tower there.
Turk Town has been used for Gosport (Gospit ;) ) for years, along with Down Town, the Front, (Over) The Hill and (get the Hover over to) the Island etc, whilst Weee is unique to Pompey area (it's said over the Hill too).
Some other words not found in many other places are: lippy, lairy, gutty, copped and shant.
You don't usually find these are slang words until you move away and people stare at you blankly (or laugh because you say left and roight when giving directions!).
The Portsmouth accent is probably the most chaviest accent in the UK I’m not gonna lie. But this is a pretty good representation 😂😂😂
Either that or most pikey as its slang originates mainly from romani gypsys
You’ve got kids in posh areas using and faking it. Here in Pompey it comes naturally for some of us down hear. it’s sort of like a cockney accent but in our own way
@@SomeRandomPunk being born in Pompey and then moving around a lot though my younger years as my old man was in the navy(including having a Texas accent when I was a child lol) it's like a cockney mixed with a farmer accent in the south. I live in Basingstoke ATM and work with a lot of Pompey boys (And have supported them my whole life) and even being 50 minutes up the road the slang and accent is completely different to here. Love it though. I say mush still to people here and i get funny looks lol
One of the other signature elements of working class PompeySpeak is the distinctive conjugation of certain verbs.
For example: the verb "to go". In regular English this would be:
I go
You go
He goes
She goes
We go
They go
In PompeySpeak:
I goes
You goes
He goes
She goes
We goes
They goes
Easy to remember, at least.
With love from Portsmouth UK 🇬🇧
When I was a kid you could tell which part of portsmouth someone lived in by their accent .
Here’s another one for the dictionary: Ace-eez are Houses in Pompey.
My late grandparents were from the Pompey area so it was weird - in a good way - to hear their accent coming through you! Nice video as ever.
Weeeeeee. This is quality mush! PUP!
As a Pompey mush, this made me smile, but I think you'll find the image you used isn't our Lippy Tower ... Another one to consider is 'rayndabate'.
pretty sure it is mate, can see the building on the left where tescos is
This is one of the best videos i have ever seen
So my family are from around Portsmouth. This is so accurate. Weirdest thing is it’s presented in a genuine educational style of video 😂
Wow I am Korean and I really love English.
I wish I could talk to you.
Your English is amazing..!!!!!❤️
It’s really fun watching your videos !!
His posh English is very good but his pompyisms are rubbish.
His English is better than my English and I am English
This mush come in yesterday and called me a fackin' dinlo, dinnee?
PompeySpeak is a sort of weird fusion of West Country, working class London and a smattering of Romany, from the major migrations (mainly for dockyard work) in the 19th century, and the Romany clearances in the New Forest.
That was probably the most likely sentence on here in the comments section
im from Pomey and never heard speak pompey. because im a true pomponian
Nice one Billy
Very funny, Billy. You got it mostly right!
Inspirational
Thanks x
Love this video! Im from Portsmouth and it’s weird to notice some of these things in the video.Things like weeeeee I just assumed was a British thing.
I think the big thing you missed though is that people from Portsmouth (myself included) struggle to pronounce th’s and instead would say f. classic example would be norf instead of north.
Great video though very well researched
Deffo drop the letter 'T' too.
@@andyhealey660 very true
Yeah I never pronounce t's in words like water or butter (wa'er/buh'er) and say "fink"(think) or "fick"(thick) despite knowing it's not perfect English but it's how I've always said it hahaha
I'm originally from Stamshaw, going "down town" always meant you were heading off to Commercial Road.
I'm from Pompy, that was entertaining mush 😆
Been watching since the Roadmen Dialect vid!
Yes my g
Pompey lass here and I didn't know Turk Town but the rest are definitely all part of my vocabulary.
I think us oldies do. I always refer to Gosport as Turk Town when chatting to older members in our family. I think 'lipstick tower/lippy tower ' is a youngsters reference though for gunwharfe.
@@andyhealey660 I still refer to "Gunwharf" as Vernon.
Hahaha I really surprised ! Well I'll transfer to Portsmouth next week xx
Portsmouth til i die.
I call it the lipstick building not lippy tower XD
Forgot the most popular phrase: pOMpEYYYY AYEE POMPEY TILL I DIE
haha this is hilarious, nice one mush, when you're in pompey come and visit me at the hotwalls studios
Amazing 😂
What about “mush birds” ? Plenty of them in gunwharf
And fareham
@@markshergold1449 nah thats munters 😂
Spot on pretty much
I’m Pompey born and bread and use all these words daily lol
I've never heard the term "Lippy Tower", but I'm using not forever.
I'm live in gosport and can confirm it gets called turk town alot
Typical sentence at school near Pompey early eighties:
Oh reck-on! Jimm-ee! What a dinlow. Urgghh! Joey!
Dinny durbrain!
Sqiun-eeee!
Don't get lairy!
Don't cop a strop!
lmao! Excellent!
Only knew mush but used to live near Portsmouth
Dude made us sound Scottish lmaooo
Good to have you back on obscure UK accents 😁 Come back soon!!!!
Obscure... How very dare you 😉 Pompey lad here 😁
It’s pretty obscure. I’ve seen people on TV dramas playing people supposedly from Portsmouth that sound exactly like Scummers. No one knows what we really sound like. Coz if vey rilly did troi ta saynd loik us, vey’d prolly be a in a laff mush. Prrrks
For an extended version u could include "whassat?"
I have literally only ever heard like 2 of these. never will i hear the rest lol
The "Din" comes from "Dim" some may say but in fact it's a reverse of that. The word origin in that vernacular seems to come from the northeast coast of French Brittany.
Most of the words are on point but fuck knows where you got that accent from lmao and as for turk Town, getting the name from Turkish sailors is less that half the story, it because they turned up and got killed in gosport, other than that, good vid mush
The thing that no one has mentioned is that we swear, we swear a lot, sometimes every second or third word and no word is off limits, the “C and F bombs get dropped all the time and it has lots of uses and meanings, this can sound aggressive but not necessarily, you must remember we were a Army and Navy town the locals had to sound aggressive or “ard” especially when drinking in the pubs, pompey pubs could be very dangerous places for the unaware.
Winchester would be lovely
In Liverpool your "Mush" is your face.
Funny. I'm from Pompey, too!!
PUP.
Well lakes!
Lippy Tower's a new one to me. You live and learn. 'Dayn tayn' is dying out if you ask me. Younger people tend
to pronounce 'down town' quite neutrally or poshly nowadays.
I think the west country influence is starting to fade in Pompey. You hear it a lot more in those aged 45+ these days.
Dayn tayn is now more like dan tan
@@KaitainCPS Agreed.
@@skillspronto3401 Agreed.
Also mush is used all over UK
Not as much as in Pompey, though. You won't hear, "this mush come in here yesterday" in most places in the UK.
This is definitely how all of us speak
I'm from Portsmouth but unfortunately I lost my accent because I live in New Zealand I'm sad now :(
^^^ Also from pompey. Gotta give the moosh (
Have to agree, lol, I prefer the old school moosh! 👍. Moosh was friendly, mate was more serious.😂
as someone from pompey, can confirm most of it is correct however "weeeee" would be pronounced "wayyyy"
probably with a 'no' in front of it. I've never heard anyone say turk town and lipstick tower maybe but not lippy. If we're meeting at gunwharf (we don't include the quays usually), we just say, let's meet at gunwharf. Some even say Gunny.
@@mellamotash2365 IV defo heard Turk town used for Gosport a fair few times by people but Lippy is new one to me as to me it's Gunwharf and the Lipstick tower but that's it.
@@kanelittle3257 that's fair, loads of my friends are for gosport and I've never heard it, could be a diff age range.. But definitely not common.
Think you're thinking of a different saying here: "wayyyy" is said by your mates if someone falls over or says something funny or rude, "weee" is just an expression of surprise - mainly said by the older generation!
@@Towers13 spot on ... especially if someone drops a pint WAYYYYYY
Pretty lakz mush (;
My home tayne init
Hahaha I though people only said lakes ironically now.
also forgot alright geez and chavvy
When more Plymouth dialect words?
Gosport is also known as gus
"Geezer mushty" is also still prevalent, although a literal translation of that would just come out as a double emphasis on the fact you're addressing a bloke. Never heard of "Lippy Tower" although I've heard Gosport referred to as "Brown Town" generally. Not sure about "wee" as an expression of surprise? "Farrkin' hell, mush!" is perhaps more common.
Wee was definitely used at one point. Maybe it’s less popular now. The dialect on the island is in decline.
@@memsom My dad tells me he knew of a time when it was said, but generally only by women for some reason.
“Wee!” was ubiquitous in working class Pompey speak in the 80s.
@@KaitainCPS A bit before my time then.
me too. never heard of lippy tower, heard farkin hell, as well as fark me! and knob head. pretty common from Southsea
You sound like you are from Devon mate. That's definitely not how people from Portsmouth sound.
A long time ago people in Portsmouth would of sound like West country but people who came from London to work on the docks kind of killed the proper Pompey accent of. My grandad born in Portsmouth had a proper Pompey Hampshire accent.but we call people from Pompey fake cockneys. I from portchester next Portsmouth most of us speak proper Hampshire and the Hampshire accent is West country even though we are south east. Unless your from Winchester you talk posh can't stand the posh accent that's what killed a lot of the proper accent off.
@@christopherthewreckerthats2295 pfft fuckkng portchy os posh comparing to leigh park
포츠머스 메리디앙 스쿨 다녔는데...사투리가 이랬었나? ㅋㅋ건워프...기억나네..ㅋㅋ
Do kentish dialect
What I will say is I think you go a bit too West Country when you do the accent but other than that great video
Agreed haha, some of the things also make us Pomey peeps sounds Scottish 😂
I'm from Pompey and get told I sound west country constantly
He doesn't mention the most famous Pompey phrase of all....
DING-A-LING-A-LING-A-LING-A-LING-A-LING-A-LING-A-LING-A-LING-A-LING-A-LING-A-LING-A-LING-A-LING
What is that, John Westwood?
@@KaitainCPS there are many John Westwoods, but there's only one John Anthony Portsmouth Football Club Champions Of Five League Divisions Play Up Pompey Pompey Play Up Yakubu Nwankwo Linvoy Westwood.
@@gurrrn1102 someone needs to know the clubs history 😂 theres only 4 fucking leagues we’ve played in you fucking div
Mush is more of a joint Southampton-Portsmouth thing
Romani*
lol!
My g Korean billy 😈
Im from Pompy and we do not talk like that lol. Mush is common here but not only in Pompy at work we got ppl from Welsh and other parts of UK and they use mush way more than us same with dinlo 😁 more common is to hear Southampton lads calling pompy smelly
Pompy is smelly
@@tunein6765 Pompey has an E.
@@KaitainCPS Pompey is smelley
what? the scummers? 555
Everywhere has its smelly places. Portsmouths isn't bad. Got plenty to do and history
Ah ha! Nicly done but your accent sounds more Cornish, try more the way DCI Burnside speaks in the police show The Bill :D Your slightly wrong on the origions of Turk Town though. The name comes from World War 1 all the Turkish prisoners of war were shipped to Gosport to be distributed to prisoner camps round the UK.
Gosport is not Turk town, we pronounce it as ‘ShitHole’
Silly Billy
Alrite la. that brekkie was boss, you dinlo
Haha it may sound better if a proper Pompey person says this.
Only a true born n bred Pompey geezer can say I'm going down town around around about
Lived in Portsmouth all my life and only ever heard two of those phrases
How long is that life?
Dinlo, Sqinny, dayne tayne (Commercial Road), they are all genuine. The lips tower is questionable, I think it’s just the building and most would say gunwarf or gunny, and Turk town and weee are older sayings. Cop is one he missed. And chavving as in stealing. Lakes as well. And saying “well” to emphasise something. Like, “well good”, “well smart” etc.
Yes cop is a definite and me instead of my.
@@memsom Ah, so I'm not the only one who remembers "lakes". Praising something as "well lakes" was de rigeur when I was at school in the 80s.
As someone from Portsmouth that accent is appalling lmao
Talking Pompey with a Korean accent ends up as Cornish.
if a korean tourist came here speaking liek this theyd get headbutted lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂
ha ha ha ha, :)
I grew up in Southampton, which is the next big city west of Portsmouth...
Aside from "Mush" and "Dinlo"; I have never heard any of these phrases ever uttered from a single person I have met from Portsmouth, Gosport, Havant, Cosham (where rumour has it, they dont "wash'em") or any of the surrounding areas...
We do use squinny alot, but lippy tower? It was always gunwharf even before the tower was built
@@DoubleD91 Squinny rings a faint bell (I used to work at Portsmouth University so met plenty of “skates” for lack of a better colloquial term).
Got a lot of love for Portsmouth
We use most of what he said, bar the gunwarf thing.
Then you may be fairly young.
You sound irish
Dayne tayne isn't something I've heard tbh.
Half is correct some incorrect pronunciation in here blokes a bit of a dinlo and he forgot to mention the scummers a bunch of thoroughly nice people from tup da road whose football team we love and respect and maybe would piss on if they were on fire 🤣
his pronunciation makes it sound Cornish rather than Portsmouth. Also never heard anyone say weeee in that context
How old are you, though?
Kenny jacketts blue and white army
Most of all the put a S on the end of every word… even if already has an S on the end..
Alrights mushs I sees yous bys thes (Fratton) parks on Saturdays mush withs ya mrss
PUNCHING HORSES, THROWING BRICKS THAT THE POMPEY WAY!! 10 YEARS!!
10 YEARS IN LEAGUE ONE OR LEAGUE 2!!!😂😂
FOR THE OLDER FANS THAT DIV 3 AND DIV 4!!!
EASTLEIGH ARE TOP 10 IN NATIONAL LEAGUE!!!
COME ON SPITFIRES WE NEED A SOUTH COAST DERBY AGAIN!!
#YOUGETWHATYOUDESERVE
dinlo
Your Dad should’ve pulled out
10 year anniversary of being BELOW the championship!! Hahaha
Pompey accent not perfect? No shit Sherlock 😀
Its true but not accent
This is slang not dialect
Dialect is regional slang.
Accent is how it sounds.
You are soo close but so wrong please redo the video.
Lived in southsea Portsmouth for 25 years and you have almost got it but you have to lower your IQ alot more if you want to get it perfect 🤣.
Also you are sounding more like a farmer. You need to add more cockney to your voice to get it right.
That is terrible you din
This is sooo wrong
never heard of “Lippy Tower😭” or “Turk Town🤣” u fool The lippy tower is the lipstick tower And It’s Not Irish Or Australian🤣🤣 weirdo
No need to insult him but I am curious about where he got this info from lol
What the fuck is this I live in Portsmouth we sound nothing like this