MMerseySpeakA Liverpool language archive
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Categories

The original thematic collections. Each one gathers usages and sayings around a single subject.

Body & physical appearance

172 entries →

The child's world

172 entries →

Comparisons: more thans, less thans

10 entries →

Crime, law & order

151 entries →

Dismissive remarks

144 entries →

Drinking

94 entries →

Drugs

29 entries →

Ethnic give and takes

77 entries →

Food & eating

114 entries →

Money & spending

92 entries →

Old age & dying

25 entries →

Raillery & verbal confrontation

154 entries →

Religion

29 entries →

Rhyming slang

80 entries →

Sexuality

188 entries →

Similes

98 entries →

Snobbery & better-than-thou-ism

30 entries →

Sports

104 entries →

Time

21 entries →

Toilet, privvy & bog

66 entries →

Violence

32 entries →

The weather

8 entries →

Work, professions & dockers' nicknames

183 entries →