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Where did 'ey up me duck' come from?
Have you ever been abroad and had baffled looks when greeting someone with a friendly, "ey up me duck"? One TikTok creator recently faced this exact scenario.
Professor Natalie Braber is a senior lecturer in Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, and joined Verity to explain the origins of the phrase.
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