Re: Euro (mostly British) Phrases that are catching on in the U.S.?
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heh i dunno, i mean, it's definitely possible that that is used down south in london etc. i am not familiar with southern slang at all really, have never actually heard 'guv' or 'guvnor' used. but imagine it is in some parts.
may i suggest 'squire' instead?
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lol, squire sounds a little odd but it's kind of growing on me.
all those bad-ass cockney guys seem to like guv/guv'nah a lot
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lol?
My girlfriend is from Surrey (south of London) and is always ridiculing Americans for thinking that Brits actually say 'guvnah.'
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wow, she deserves a hearty pat on the back for ridiculing those stupid Americans.
but srsly I was under the impression that cockney and people saying "guv" would be contained the to east end of London and other similarly dodgy parts. so i'm not sure your girlfriend and her gaggle of friends from Surrey are exactly supreme arbiters of this particular subset of slang.
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