h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Meskin is slang for Mexican.

I honestly didn't mean to cause offence with the merkin thing - I thought you got the other meaning (not the OED version )

Names for people around Britain:
Jock - Scottish
Geordie - Newcastle/Northumbria in general
Scouse - Liverpool
Mank - Manchester (see also manky )
Taff - Welshman/woman
Paddy - Irish
Sasenach (sas'er'nack) - Scottish name for the English
Brum - Birmingham
Yokel - Somerset/Norfolk farmer type. Known to roid in combiine 'arvesters. (That's 'ow they speak, innit)
Cockney - East end of London.

There are plenty more but I can't think of any off hand.

Liam.

Ahhhh. I will make sure not to confuse the two.

Do Americans use the phrase "From here to timbuktu"?

Toff- someone that is posh.

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Some of us do.
I've heard the expression anyway.

"Toff" probably comes from "Toffey-nose,"
which would indicate someone from the upper class.

Yeah.

How about barries and townies? You get them across the pond?

'Smatterofact, do people know what they are on this side of the pond?

Or a Kev run?

Oh yeah, Kevs. That's the one I missed out.

You missed out Garries too.

In my neighborhood a yokel isn't from anyplace in particular but means th4e person is a hick.

Europeans call all Americans Yanks, but here a Yankee refers to someone from the Northeast. Dates back to the Civil War. A Yankee fought for the North and a Rebel fought for the South.

Sooners - Oklahoma
Hoosiers - Indiana

Buckeyes = Ohio(ans)

It's not fair to say words & or phrases if you're not gonna' tell what they mean.As if we don't have enough b-lod in our lives.
I'm okay.
Been a long day. Think I'll have a 'lay-me-down'. <---Pan-speak.

PC went to Virginia Tech so I finally learned what Hokie is.. it's a castrated turkey. That'll put fear in the hearts of the defence..

Hokie-dokie...but what's a Mastokie? AS in: Hokie from Mastokie?

Maybe it's located in the same area as Bum F*** Egypt<?>

Are there different names for what I'm suffering today?
I drank too much of Uncle Jack. The things I will do for my Country! After all it WAS Veteran's Day. **==

<aside to Batty. Ya' know how you've been drinking less? Don't worry Hon, nobody at the distillary will loose their j*bs. I've been pickin' up your slack!

A barry/townie/kev/gazza is one who, self consciously tries to be cool and fasionable. It involves dressing in vibrantly coloured adidas, listening to hip hop, and drinking stella artois in public places. It involves suppressing your individuality and trying to be the lowest common denominator. They are the arch enemies of goths, grebs and punks.

Hmmm...a: 'wanna'-be'! (want to be cool)

Do you have 'rice-grinders' there? anything other than a Harely bike.
That's what they'er called, 'Rice-grinders'.
I mean I KNOOOOW you have um...but do you call um that??

I thought they were called "rice burners."
At least that's the term I see on the
bumper stickers of trucks.

I tend to call them "lawnmowers".

Or alarm clocks. It's impossible to sleep
when they're going past.

My alarms have recently stopped working or something. I'm getting up far too late.

I always thought Harleys were hogs and rice burners, of the racing persuasion anyway, were called Cr*tch (just in case its on the no-no list) Rockets.