Mobile Linguistics

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My mobile, not nacked yet.

1 November 2010 at 12:27

I have a new mobile.   

So now Fester has my old mobile but with the back of his old mobile which should keep the dust out.

Anyone want to open a book on how long it will take him to nack the on/off switch?

2 November 2010 at 13:22

Fester's mobile buggered within 6 hours of me giving it to him.   

Got him a new one in Carphone Warhouse.   

It recognises my simcard, but not his old one.   

Time for him to call Vodaphone methinks.

Glossary

I used the word 'nack' in a blog a while ago and a (Canadian) reader didn’t know what it meant

Nack is a Geordie verb meaning damage, break or destroy, as in the threat “Aah’ll nack ye!”

It can also mean ‘to cause pain’ as in “Did it nack?”  “Aye it nacked like buggery.”

“Nacked” which can also mean very tired or exhausted, is similar but unrelated to the cruder Southern English term “Knackered”.

According to mother my Welsh father was surprised, or even shocked, when his future, and respectable, mother-in-law came in from shopping one day in 1940/41, sat down and said 

“Eee Jacky lad Aah’m nacked.”

On the other hand mother was shocked to hear her future, and equally respectable, mother-in-law refer to someone as a cow.  Carmarthenshire is a dairy area so ‘cow’ merely means someone is difficult and/or unpleasant.  Apparently it had a much more derogatory defamatory and unfortunate meaning in the industrial North East.