Does anybody on here actually use this term to describe Cardiff? Where exactly did it come from?
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Does anybody on here actually use this term to describe Cardiff? Where exactly did it come from?
Students...probably.
The same ones who use the term chippy alley 😭
Probably the same people who use the term "Can I get" in shops!
Invented by students and visitors like ‘Chippy Lane’.
One of the many nuances creeping in to everyday use which I cannot stand.
I'll give you a few more examples:
"So, I was getting on the train..."
"OK, something's not right..."
"Sorry, but I disagree with you..."
This is one thing that can't be blamed on the Millennials either. I listen to the radio a lot, mainly BBC Radio 5 and there are grown men talking that way, mainly that Nihal Arthanayake who's surely in his 40s.
These people use it:
http://www.ilovesthediff.com/
For goodness' sake.
I love to see small businesses doing well, but I really hope that site fails. What an abomination.
Of course it is not called "the 'diff". My wife studied in Cardiff (rather than growing up there) and she doesn't recognise it either. She does call Caroline Street "chippy lane" which is obviously unacceptable, but i think we'd get divorced if she said "the 'diff".
I do think that both are different to "can I get", though. There are lots of examples of people twisting/americanising the English language, but they are different (and less offensive) than strangers renaming parts of our city for no good reason and with no basis.
The guy who owns this company is a customer of mine .He is a top man , so diff is fine with me.
The Diff is in the back axle of rear wheel drive vehicles and balances the drive to each wheel as the car goes round a corner otherwise the car would try and drive through the corner and scrubb the tyres out .
Imo, anyone from Cardiff, or living in Cardiff who uses the terms Diff and Chippy Lane, should be banished from our great city for ever!!
The diff = people who allow protesters to sit on city-centre main roads, even buying them coffees; unlike folk who haul protesters from train roofs and give them a kicking.