"Non-Standard" English Words

[Admin]

I live in the Inner Circle, so my list consists of California English words. I'm STOKED to find out if any of these are more widespread

1. stoked! (excited)
2. hella (very, extremely - as in "I'm hella stoked to be here." /"This movie was hella good.")
3. gnarly (awesome OR awful - "These waves are gnarly!")
4. NorCal and SoCal (Northern and Southern California)
5. the 5, the 8, the 163 - the article "the" is added in front of freeway names, which is not done on the East Coast.
6. sick (cool, awesome - "Sick board, bro" - I heard someone use the word "righteous" in the same way once, as in "Righteous hat, dude!")
7. radical (or rad) - cool, awesome
8. lane camper - someone driving really slow in the left lane
9. dank (good)
10. a grip (a large amount of something)

[sameerco1971]

I am unfamiliar with most of these expressions.

[sameerco1971]

I live in the outer circle. My list is mostly influenced by Arabic speakers.
For example, we use the finish as a verb but we add the prefix "Ye" to be "Yefinish" It is a bit weird but it is widely spread in Gulf countries.

[Kunlong Jin]

I am currently studying and living in UK. But as a native Chinese speakers, I came across many English words and phrases frequently accepted and used in Inner-countries today.
For example, KETCHUP. It’s from the Hokkien Chinese term kê-tsiap, and it was originally a sauce made from fermented fish. Europeans tried to replicate it and later added tomato as a key ingredient. Another example would be MAHJONG, a Chinese gambling game. It comes from both Cantonese màhjéuk and the Mandarin (má què), which literally mean “sparrow.” A sparrow is often pictured on the first tile of a playing set.My last example would be TYPHOON, a hurricane. The term comes from the Chinese equivalent, (tái fēng).

[erenkenny]

I can say, according to Kachu's diagram, I was in expanding circle, Then I was in outer circle and now I live in the UK more than 17 years. I heard the word
sick -cool
radical-cool
kecks-trousers
butty- sandwich
dead- very as in it's dead good.
brekkie -breakfast
lorra - lots of
sounds as a pound-fine

[abdisyam]

I live in the expanding circle (Indonesia), but I cannot really think of any colloquial words specifically used in Indonesian English. However, I have friends in the outer circle countries such as Malaysia and Singapore. I think the most common accent features of Malay or Singlish I hear from them are words such 'la', 'lor', and 'ah' among others, which I think do not really have 'dictionary' meanings. So they would say something like the following:

I don't know lah
Really ah?
ok lor
Smile also cannot now is it?
Pick me up at 7? 'can or not'?

[andrea scabbia]

I live in Italy, so in the Expanding circle. Of course, lot of English words comes everyday in our Italian language.
You can hear young people saying:
- ciao bro come stai ( bro= brother) the translation: hi brother, how are you?
- sei un giocatore molto skillato ( skillato= you can do a lot of tricks in a game, like football) = you are a very talented player, with a lot of skills
- ehi, whatsuppami stasera ok? (whatsup, of course) = send me a whatsapp this evening
- andiamo a drinkare su'! (to drink) = let's have a dring , c'mon!

[Tom Le Seelleur Lisburn, NI]

I live in Lisburn, Northern Ireland where the people speak a variety of English I was unfamiliar with when I arrived here in 2014. Some words I now understand and others i still find difficult to learn as they are unused in my own vocabulary examples here are first NI followed by English equivalent
Bake - Mouth
Banjax - Destroy
Craic - Banter / News
Culchie - Farmer
Hooley - Party
Malarky - Nonesense
Poke - Ice cream
Scunned - Annoyed
Thonder - There
Wee - Little
Yous - You

[evarojo]

I live in Spain, so in the Expanding Circle. In Spanish there are many, used by teenagers I can think of these
Nouns like DJ, adjectives like crazy (all with Spanish pronunciation)
Vocabulary fron social media: hashtag, followers,trending topic, influencer,...
Verbs like flipar, trolear
Expressions like I don't know

[marian]

I come from Argentina, therefore the Expanding Circle, and the influence of English in our language is present in many areas.
-IT: mouse, pen drive, spam, blog, DVD
-economy: cash, holding, marketing
and many others in other fields, such as: bullying, phishing, shopping, lawfare, personal trainer, selfie, influencer...

[Ulla]

Jun 1, 2020 21:01:05 GMT andrea scabbia said:

I live in Italy, so in the Expanding circle. Of course, lot of English words comes everyday in our Italian language.
You can hear young people saying:
- ciao bro come stai ( bro= brother) the translation: hi brother, how are you?
- sei un giocatore molto skillato ( skillato= you can do a lot of tricks in a game, like football) = you are a very talented player, with a lot of skills
- ehi, whatsuppami stasera ok? (whatsup, of course) = send me a whatsapp this evening
- andiamo a drinkare su'! (to drink) = let's have a dring , c'mon!

I live in Austria, and we add German prefixes and suffixes to English words in a similar way - ich habe gewhatsapped (I have sent a whatsapp message), ich muss das downloaden (I have to download this) etc. Young people often describe people who are laid-back and cool as 'chillig', and I once overheard a teenager telling her friends "Jetzt chillt's einmal!" (Guys, just relax, will you!).

I have noticed that young people use 'nice' as an all-purpose term of approval even when speaking German: Ich habe ein neues Handy. - Nice! (I have a new phone. - Nice!). 'Handy' is German for mobile phone.  :-)   During the recent lockdown, people would say "Ich arbeite jetzt im home office" (I am working from home right now). In both cases (handy and home office), there is not really a German term that is equally common.

[miabae]

I'd like to give some outer-circle examples I've come across in Russia:
1. online / offline
2. hashtag
3. cashback
4. arrpove(r)
5. stories (on Instagram)
6. car sharing
7. webinar
8. touchpad
9. swipe
10. prime time

[Anita]

Im from the outer circle, India. We have many Anglo-Indians there so we see the influence of the Indian languages on English. Few words that I heard were"
Verandah( balcony), hullabaloo ( commotion or confusion), toddy ( alcohol).