British & Irish slang
UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
British and Irish slang covers Cockney, Multicultural London English (MLE), Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Brummie, Glaswegian, Welsh, West Country, and Irish English. The throughline is regionalism — most terms identify the speaker's city within a postcode — and a tradition of euphemism, understatement, and intensifier inversion (bare for "very", proper as universal qualifier). MLE, the dominant strain among under-25s, fuses Caribbean patois with Cockney and South Asian English. Signature exemplars: innit, bruv, peng, craic, knackered. The category leans urban (London, Manchester, Dublin, Glasgow) and skews Gen Z for MLE, all generations for regional dialects. Platform: oral, with strong representation on UK Twitter and grime/drill lyrics.
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