SamTherapy opened this issue on Sep 27, 2012 · 65 posts
Eric Walters posted Sun, 07 October 2012 at 5:04 PM
The boss said "Jolly good" in a positive way- I suppose the addition of old chap might be a wee tad over the top. A good ironic phrase.
A former coworker used "butty" when refering to sandwhiches- I always wondered if it was derived from "buttered." She had a thicker accent-not "BBC standard." When she said "what'-it is sounded more like Whuh? I think she lived in Liverpool and Manchester
Quote - I sometimes say "Jolly good, old chap", but only ever in an ironic sense. That's to say, when someone's fucked up spectacularly badly.
Yep, "Butty", is a Lancastrian - primarily Liverpool/Mersey now - slang word. My dad hated it and would never refer to any sandwich as a butty.