Contributions

Luke K. (via email)

I am fascinated by your research into Grenglish. I was born and brought up in London, UK, originall…

Louis

This is wonderful and would be a shame to lose the cypriot/english language as spoken by that immig…

Leo

Mobai/Μόπαη - Mobile
Passoporto/Πασσοπόρτο - passport
Googli/Κούκλη - google
Noodli/Νούδλη - no…

Christopher C.

I was born (1947) in London, to Greek Cypriot parents; for five years (from the age of 6 years till…

Harry

Greek Cypriots in New Zealand are very very few. There are more Greeks in Wellington but all those…

Harry

Kavnas

Another interesting word coined by the Cypriots which my father was perplexed back in th…

Pav mastihi

FOOD AND PRODUCT LABELS 1

I somehow ended up at a Greek Cypriot shop food called Despina’s in S…

Lazaro S.

Many words have been transformed and either used from English to Greek Cypriot or Greek Cypriot to …

Angela N.

I'm so glad you're doing this. It's something I wanted to do, but didn't where to start or have tim…

Harry

A usual one is,

'Tha piaso ti pasketta, na pao sti marketta na goraso soseitzia…'

My father t…

Dion Georgiou

To Mbaso - The bus
I Mbanka - The bank

Both terms that I heard my grandfather (born in Cyprus i…

zoe

ti sidiroo = sitting room

to kichi

brettez = breakfast

sossinja = sausage

aiscri = ice…

Jon Donnis

"Hem / Hemself" - My dad uses Hem instead of Him or Her, Himself or Herself.

Even after living …

Ευγένιος Δανιήλ

Στους Ινδιάνους I.e. asian corner shop
Μπλοκάρει blocking

I did also want to draw your atten…

Christina

'Faies' (fires)
My parents used this word to describe the central heating in the house or the heat…

Λαζαρώ

Being born and raised in the uk, not london but manchester, i was good friends with georgiou s moth…

Iacovos Neophytou

Πρόσεχε, εν πολλά κκράφτησσα τούτη.

- Be careful, she is very crafty / deceitful / untrustworth…

Christina C. (via twitter)

It's got to be #fishburypark..didn't realise until I was an adult that this was in fact #FinsburyPa…

Kimchi (via twitter)

Oh god, my mum and godmother have quite a few 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Caioukia = cake
Sausenges = sausages
Cig…

Panteli S. (via twitter)

mum would take us shopping with her to the "margetta" shops visited included "lidleewoos" (littlewo…

Nikos X. (via twitter)

Negatch
Nεκατσώ is a unique Cypriot phrase. I don’t think any other language provides an equivalen…

Pav Panayioti Mastihi

Μαππος/ mop
Χουβα/ vaccume cleaner
Μιτρα/ meter (as in gas or Electric meter. Possibly not used n…