In these parts, it's still quite common to hear people call each other 'buh', as in for example 'you gowen' on 'olidee this year, buh?'.
This use is quite often written out as 'boy', ( e.g in the title of the song 'Have you got a light, boy?'), but I was told many years ago that the word is actually a contraction of 'neighbour', i.e. its unstressed second syllable.
I don't know if that's true, but I'm curious to know if you've ever known anyone regularly address women as 'buh' (or 'bor' or 'boy', or something like that), just as easily as they would say it to a man. |  |
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