Qi - "They make a canny noise, like"

[Vardagaladhiel]

Oh silly Stephen, even I got that joke and I'm not even from the UK!

[quimsolls1]

phil jupitus is a legend, I love him on this show!

[laminator69er]

Press 6 :)

[jamesbannon002]

He also confuses "cunny" with "canny".

[binaway]

My Dad worked with a newly arrived Georgie woman in Melbourne and an Italian asked her how she like Australia. She said there were some things she was finding hard hard and the Italian replied she would find it easier when she learned to speak English better. This comment didn't go down very well.

[MrDotdaniel]

@binaway Geordie***

[grmreapr]

Canny can also be used to help emphasise as in "that tackle was canny bad" for a nasty tackle.

[rastamothalf]

Canny means great, wonderful, fantastic in the Geordie dialect. It's nothing to do with sounding like you're talking into a tin can.

[Skeew1]

is it just me or is the epitome of stephen's polite adorable-ness when he says "i beg your pardon!" :)

[JohnsonLobster]

I'm French, and the first time I heard a Geordie accent I thought the bloke was from Eastern Europe.

[boffgirl]

I'm like stephen i dont understand the war drum joke.

cant quite hear the explination over the laughter and alan also talkin over it.

[eFlatin1]

@boffgirl in Newcastle they say wor instead of our. So the geordie soldier thought that they had stolen their drums

[boffgirl]

@eFlatin1 Ah thanks, cause from what alan n phil were sayin sounded like hour drums. I was getting confused, thansk for clearning that up

[RustlessPotato]

@eFlatin1 wat drums ? xD Just pulling your feet

[Gubbywubby]

@eFlatin1 Well they must go to school, it's just ridiculous!

[DafyddCymraeg]

@boffgirl

Out of curiosity, are you American?

[boffgirl]

@DafyddCymraeg

naaa im from devon,

diff accent from the north

[kayper54]

This is just about my favorite clip. Never fails to put me in stitches.

[kayper54]

I don't get it either! What does "a cunny noise, like" MEAN!!?!?

[DeanMalenko]

@kayper54 canny, like you're talking into a metal can

[kayper54]

@DeanMalenko Oooohhh, OK, I was hearing it wrong. Well, now that I understand the sentence, does it have anything to do with a noise ferns make or is he just being silly? I'm sorry, I'm more clueless than Stephen is. (I had to google "pudenda.")

[DeanMalenko]

@kayper54 stephen says "fern", the other bloke says "phone" in a newcastle accent, so if you talk on a phone the voice sometimes sounds a bit like talking into a can,a mechanical hollow sound.

[kayper54]

@DeanMalenko :) Thx so much. Always good to expand one's knowledge of "foreign languages." XD

[kayper54]

@DeanMalenko OOoooohhhhh, I get it! Thx very much! (Just another ignorant American, I am.)

[kayper54]

@DeanMalenko I watched this whole episode with my hubby and he was just as confused as I was about this scene. I was soooo smart to be able to tell him why this whole scene is sooooo funny (even though I thought it was funny even before you explained it.) Thx again! I don't usually win points over on him very often but I did this once!

[Mullahgrrl]

@DeanMalenko So its Can-y, now i get it, i thought it was canny as in un-.

[MrDotdaniel]

@DeanMalenko Canny doesn't mean a tinny noise, canny means alright or good

[TheDarkKreig]

@MrDotdaniel Actually, it (canny) means "can't" or "cannot".

[MrDotdaniel]

@TheDarkKreig In Scotland perhaps, but not in Newcastle. I've lived in and around Newcastle my whole life. I can see where that thought would come from though. Can't or cannot is more likely to be pronounced 'cannit' or in the the traditional way for can't; although 'not' would never be pronounced 'nit'.

[judgejudyslover]

@TheDarkKreig Yea I'm lower than Newcastle, from Teesside and I (sometimes) hear canny as in "she's a canny lass"

[DeanMalenko]

@MrDotdaniel Then I just don't get what he wants to say.. I mean it makes sense that on (old) phones the noise that it makes when it rings is like you're hitting a tin can.. I don't see how phones make a "good" noise. I think we will all be guesing until some day he may explain it in an interview :D

[MrDotdaniel]

@DeanMalenko It has several meanings depending on context, here it's most likely meaning rather or quite. "Phones make quite a noise".

You could also say it meaning likeable "She's a canny lass" or to say that you like something "Aye, that's canny" or as a replacement for good "[How are you?] Aye, I'm canny"

[Tangetastic]

Aww, this is adorable! It's lovely that Stephen's so well spoken that he can't understand Newcastle dialect :-D

[MrsEdwardNigma]

"Oh Pudsey! Make him stop!"

[Orlabobz]

*after being totally flumuxed* "Oh they must go to school" hehe poor stephen!

[zcxvcbcz]

@Orlabobz

"Well they must go to school..."