Guideline to decent English~

When you are born in the United Kingdom, people will often assume British English (and by that we mean: decent British English) is your mother tongue. However, there is a chance that you’re considered an exception.

There are some who are born in the United Kingdom, yet not capable of speaking decent English. This category is what we call “Scousers” and “Scouse English”. For these people we’ve made a guideline to help them sound more like the normal British person when they are confronted with someone who is able to speak in a decent way.

We’ll be back in a jiffy	We’ll be back soon/shortly
Rubbish bin	Trash can
What the devil	What the hell/what the heck
It’s a hoot	It’s funny
jolly	Very (e.g. jolly good)
appealing	interesting
It has piqued my interest	I find it interesting It looks interesting
lodging	Temporary accommodation
quite	Pretty (e.g.  sounds quite boring to me)
Come along	Come with me
Right you are	You’re right I agree
A nice change of pace	A shift in routine/habits/daily activities/etc
bloke	Boy Man guy
Lead the way	Show me the way
Golly Gosh	Geez Oh my
To steal someone’s thunder	To do what someone else was going to do before they do it, especially if this takes success or praise away from them
Lad	Young man Boy
disheartened	When someone loses hope, confidence or energy
Shrewd	A clear understanding and good judgment of a situation, resulting in an advantage
Vital	Important (e.g. it’s really vital it will become a success)
chap	Man (informal English)
awful	terrible
To yap	To give a sharp, shrill bark
To pull someone’s leg	To joke
rubbish	nonsense
It was I	It was me
Slip-up	Mistake
Perhaps	Maybe
Lass	girl
That didn’t come across It didn’t come across	Not being viewed/seen/understood in a particular way
Spiffing	excellent
Splendid	Great excellent
yapping	Talk at length in an irritating manner

Use this to improve your English,
unless ...
... you wanna end up like Paul

Here's a gif of Paul giving autographs ...

... and forgetting how to write his own name again