How Well Do You Know Your British Slang?

29 Comments on How Well Do You Know Your British Slang?

1. 81% – it says I could be a member of the royal family.

   I reckon bein’ a southern redneck ain’t stopped me from bein’ a reglar britisher as far as slang goes.

2. How about a fag?
   No thanks fag’s are unhealthy

3. It said I should relocate to America as I’m not a fricking Brit.

4. 83…brilliant post.
   Cheers!

5. 90% thanks to all those British murder mysteries

6. 85 % I Had a British Room Mate For 3 Years & They Come up With some Random Stuff .
   The First Time You hear Your Mate Say He’s Forgotten His Jumper, or Wants to Play Tennis But Can’t find His Pumps is Hillarious !!! ( Jumper=sweater & Pumps= Tennis shoes)

7. Blimey, mates! 88% – “Extremely British”.
   I could be a royal, yeah. Cheers!

8. 79%. I guessed at more than half of them.

9. A few years back, I used to instant message and a few times talked by phone with a lady from Great Britain. I had barely gotten familiar with some of the slang she used and I constantly had to ask her to translate.

   One day she referred to herself as a “scouser”. I jokingly told her not to be so hard on herself and asked “so, what is a scouser”? She explained that it was what people from Liverpool are called LOL.

10. ” scouser ” nick name for liverpudlians named after a beef stew called ” scouse ” like lanceshire hot pot , [ ” CHAV ” COUNCIL HOUSE ADULT VERMIN ][ ” THE DOGS DANGLYS ” EXCELLANT ] ” THREPPANY BIT`S ” ? FROM THE OLD THREE PENCE PIECE AS IN A NICE PAIR OF ]” UP THE DUFF ” PREGANT ]” SCALLIES ” SCALLYWAGS L`POOL AGAIN ] ” JAM JAR ” CAR ] ” DOING PORRIDGE ” JAIL TIME ] THERE ARE 100RDS MORE [ ED ” NORTHERN MONKEY ” ” MANC “FROM THE ” RAINY CITY ” MANCHESTER NORTH WEST ENGLAND

11. 85% I need work.

12. 85%
    Plenty of British television and literature from a very young age. Kind of hard not to pick this stuff up.

13. They didn’t cover the word “tranker”. They obviously don’t know their british slang that well.

14. I got halfway through and had to stop. But I was 100% through #25. Then I started missing a few. How many question are in this “quiz”?

15. 85

16. 98%. I read a lot of British fiction.

17. 81% I’ve faffed about on this test a bit to long

18. Not a bad score…..guess I’m not such a dumb arse after all……

19. They speak English funny. But seriously, it amazes me how we have such different words and terms for the same things.

20. Greetings!

    I know all British slang. So I chose only those answers that were on the right side or the second answer without reading the questions and I scored 46%.

    SALVE

21. 88 percent from all those British mysteries.

22. 74% It’s Twirly.need more coffee.

23. Only 88%–drat! Must be because I’ve been reading SWEDISH mysteries, huh? Still, good enough to be 69th in line to the throne, though!?!

24. 88%. Not too shabby. And there’s a penguin on the telly.

25. 81%. working with a bunch of brits in Iraq helped a lot

26. 88%, but then my son-in-law is a Brit. I didn’t see “touching cloth” on the list.

27. 87%, and I’m not even Muslim.

    😉

28. 81, bollocks.

29. 85%
    Which seems the norm around here.
    Now someone needs to come up with Liberal Slang test.