I thought people might like to hear about John Allen who is very popular as a morning DJ at a College FM station in Massachusets.
Between rock music intervals, he gives listeners a Yorkshire slang word to translate, and the winner gets a jar of Marmite! First prize is one jar, the second prize ought to be two jars. Problem is that I'd have to go 60 miles to pick it up. If the prize was a bottle of Johnny Walker I might bother.

Nice one Buck,, though I think a bottle of Hendo's relish would be better.:thumbsup:

Can you give us some examples of the sort of words?

Maybe you can give us some US slang terms that we might not understand. (not sure that there would be any?)

Originally posted by Yodameister
Can you give us some examples of the sort of words?

Maybe you can give us some US slang terms that we might not understand. (not sure that there would be any?)

Whilst not US slang / word use, I offer for you a Canadian specimen...

When in Canada some years ago I came across a burger bar at a place called Watson Lake called McWanks.

I decided not to have mayonaise on my fries, and the owner confided in me that lots of Brits seemed to want to take pics of the signage.

Who was it who said something about two countries separated only by a common language?

Joe :)

I was watching the Simpsons Quiz on Channel 4 the other night, and they showed a clip of Homer watching a British TV Soap, and saying to Bart something along the lines of:
"This show is great; you can watch them pick up a bird, and have a ruck with a w****r!" Obviously, because that word doesn't exist in America, they can say it as freely as they want!

Took em a while over here to realise that shag wasn't a brand of carpet, or pipe tobacco. Of course a fag isn't a cigarette either.But I feel sure that most yankee slang finds its way into movies or TV, so is well known in UK.

John Allen has done "Parkin" for ginger cake, "Laking" for playing (Yorkshire but not Sheffield in my memory), "Pikelet" for crumpet "Owotha" for how are you. He's built up quite a cult following,and now I'm getting phone calls to translate. I think I'll start charging 50c a head.

I remember raising a chuckle once on a forum when I posted a message saying that my grandfather used to knock up his workmates as he walked to the mine where he worked.

Knocking up in this context meant ensuring his workmates were out of bed and on their way to work, rather than pregnant...:)

Joe

That's quality - is his show online? Can it be heard via the web?

Spent a lot of time in Mass' and would like to hear some of the radio from their again.

Where abouts is his show based? Boston or somewhere smaller?

The station is in Amherst MA, home of UMass in Western Mass. The station has a website only for info, but no broadcast. unfortunetly I've momentarilly forgot the call sign.but will get it for you