Qi - "They make a canny noise, like"

Stephen Fry does not understand when Phil Jupitus speaks with a Geordie accent

Series D
Episode 8
Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Phil Jupitus, Rich Hall, Jonathan Ross

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Qi
• Fern
• make
• cunny
• noise

[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

[MrsEdwardNigma]

"Oh Pudsey! Make him stop!"

[Orlabobz]

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

[judgejudyslover]

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

[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"

[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]

@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'.

[TheDarkKreig]

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

[boffgirl]

@DafyddCymraeg

naaa im from devon,

diff accent from the north

[DafyddCymraeg]

@boffgirl

Out of curiosity, are you American?

[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 :)