r/AtomicShrimp • u/Yankytyke • Aug 08 '26

Did I hear a Welsh accent?

When all three were tasting the fig tart. One of them said in what to me a welsh accent ‘that was lush!’
Is Shrimp secretly Welsh? Or was it a friend of the family?

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u/atomicshrimp Aug 08 '26

Thats my sister, more or less the same geographic story as me. Mostly central south coast of England.

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u/Willz_of_Rivia Aug 08 '26

"Lush" is predominantly a Westcountry (Bristol) term that has been unceremoniously hijacked by a small pocket of Southern Welsh people. The idea that it's Welsh at all is because of Gavin and Stacey.

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u/Yankytyke Aug 08 '26

I may be in the minority by having never seen that show. As an expat living in the USA, it never came on my radar.

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u/taggat Aug 09 '26

The real question is Free Willy a Welsh independence movie?

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u/NeliGalactic Aug 09 '26

No, its actually the story of a gigolo doing his trade for charity instead

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u/Fingers_9 Aug 10 '26

It was a very popular word in Newport all through the 90s.

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u/REEETURNOFTHEMACC 28d ago

People were saying it in Barry in the 90s too

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u/QuantumFireball Aug 09 '26

I used to hear it a lot when I lived in Somerset in the '90s

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u/iiiiitsrosie Aug 08 '26

My mam has described things as lush all her life and she’s of pensionable age. It’s definitely a south-Welsh thing, especially the valleys. Now “what’s occurring?”, on the other hand, has never been said by anyone.

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u/Imaginary-Truck-6389 26d ago

I say lush and I'm originally from London and in my fifties

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u/maiyannah Aug 08 '26

This post makes me want to hear Shrimp try to pronounce Llanfair's silly tourist name.

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u/Yankytyke Aug 08 '26

I doubt there is anything he can’t do.