Can you geordies please explain something to me?

Can you geordies please explain something to me?

What does Canny mean?

At first I thought it meant 'very' cos someone has put a thread saying "the board is canny quiet like"

but on another thread it sais "so and so is a canny lad" or something

How confusing!

funny?

don't think they know, then again i'm irish so i'm gonna keep quite on this one

I used to go out with a geordie, and I once asked him, and even he couldn't give me a proper answer

Maybe they use it when they can't think of the proper word! A bit like I use the word 'Thingy'

Robs answer seems canny good.

That sounds spot on to me! I'm not a Geordie either but coming from Sunderland is close enough.

Got it in one Rob!

Was he a clever one then? not being able to describe what canny meant? Its not that hard... 2 meanings.... i m no geordie, but i could have explained it...

He can't have been that clever, he let me slip through his fingers

I got asked it all time when i was in Egypt with Cassie - hard to explain when ya used to saying it all the time - Scottish people use it differently to us tho im sure ??

Its a canny good word tho

i got well confused when i came up here for uni when people were saying... 'aye i'll have any amount of that 2night'

i now know it means a lot.. apprantlee... :spangled:

speak english u bottom of the gene pool geordies

Yup, they use it instead of Can not, i.e. I canny believe it!

yeah but that's a different word pronounced the same. tis spelt "cannae"

it always amuses me nee end how many geordie words mean absolutely nothing to non-geordies, but "canny" is deffo the one that seems to confuse more than any other.

Rob's explanation is right, as in Rob's a canny canny lad

Canny also means friendly.

And me and my mates (a Consett thing perhaps) say it on its on when we think something is good. As in replying to something someone says which we think is good, we reply 'canny'

Scots are the bottom of the gene pool, not Geordies

They use canny to mean tight-fisted. Everyone in Scotland is canny

They also use 'ken' to mean 'know' like 'd'ya ken that wee man Jimmy from Leith, I'm going to murrrda him'

and pronounce 'can't' like can'na e.g. 'I can'na walk, I'm pished as fuk'

Rob was right, but canny can also be used like... "Shaun can seem a bit up himself, but seems canny" Actually, that's the same as "seems like a canny lad" Not exactle 'good, nice' more like amusing, charming, fun... like "he's dodgy as fuck and slaps his wife after ten bottle of brron on a Fri neet, but he's dead canny"

Re: Can you geordies please explain something to me?

Sorry Claire. both of those examples you give would of been off me. i'm very sorry for confusing you and anybody else was confused in this way.

message to myself-must write correct english

u non-geordies having trouble with owt else?

*racks brain* how about

marra?
patter?
fettle?

WTF does that mean?

Friend / Mate

Patter = Conversation