
This is a list of common and frequently used Suffolk words and sayings. It gives you an idea of a pronunciation and colour of the Suffolk dialectic.
English | Suffolk |
A great deal | Fairly |
Accepted by locals | Suffercated |
Away | Abbroad |
Can't see | Bugger'd iff oi ken see |
Chirp | Yip |
Clumsy | Cack handed |
Dare not | Dussent |
Dew | Dag |
Dizzy | Duzzy |
Do you | Dew yew |
Electricity | Lectrizity |
Get | Git |
Good job | Proper |
Horse | Hoss |
How was I to know | How wuz oi spuz t'now |
I think | Shink |
Ladybird | Bishy barnabee |
Learn | Larn |
Messing about | Play'in silly buggers |
Mistress | Doxy |
Must have | Muster |
Must not | Marn't |
My word | Cood a hell |
Nonsense | Squit |
Not from Suffolk | Furrener |
Not level | Sloightly on th' huh |
Not very likely | Taint be ser loikely bor |
Pain | Jip |
Potatoes | Tayters |
Priced | Proiced |
Rain | Rayne |
Ran | Runned |
Right | Roight |
Side | Soide |
Something | Suffen |
Strange | Rummin |
That will do | At'll hatter dew |
Thirty | Thutty |
To | Tew |
Trash | Holly good sole'n |
Wait a moment | Howd yew haard |
Was | Wuz |
Wasp | Jasper |
Water | Waarter |
Well I never | Cood blaarst me! |
Won't | Own't |
Word | Wud |
Worrier | Wurrygut |
You'll learn | That'll larn yer |
Young lady | Mawther |