Beep, Bib or…. erm…. Pip!!!
Hello folks.
Don’t ask me how, but this morning the team got talking about the noise your car horn makes when you press it. Politely spoken Bianca feels that you “beep your horn” - logical (and quite cute it has to be said), where as the Brummy contingent of the office - all of whom speak the Queens English - feel that you “bib your horn”. Correctamundo cries the crowd!!
However certain quarters of the office - namely Scoops and Slasher - feel that you actually ‘pip‘ your horn. PIP YOUR HORN!!! What the chuffin heck are they on about??? Admittedly they are from the East Midlands and so do have a number of…erm… interesting colloquialisms, but Pipping your horn is not one we’ve heard of until this day.
Is Scoops inventing words again? Any clarification on this would be very much appreciated.
Cheers,
Zak.
March 15th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
i say beep your hor or parp your horn, Grayham says Bip which always makes me laugh and has yet to be put forward as an alternative, must be to do with being from South of the River.
March 15th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
…personally I HONK my horn
March 15th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Pip Pip Pip…Pip Pip Pip! Out of the Way!
March 15th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
I have to say Alison, I LOVE the parp!
“I just parped my horn!” ha ha fantastic! That has got to be worst than pip surely hey Zak!? 
March 15th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Hey what’s wrong with parping??? better than beeping my hor!
March 15th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
I would say that you peep your horn at people!
March 15th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
For me it has to be either….
toot your horn or beep your horn & not to forget hang on your horn!
March 20th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Well as the pride of our great nation once said… “baby you can drive my car, beep beep, beep beep YEAH!” Enough said
March 23rd, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Incorrect Alison, I bib my horn. Sometimes I stroke it…
sorry Zak,
Graham