Let me try: "How YEW doing" ;-) (imagine english bloke trying to copy Joey)

Hmmm, that doesn't work so well in typed text...

Down in southwest England Cornwall they'd say "Alroight moi lover!" (mainly between sexes!). Trying saying it like a pirate and you'll just about getting the tone right.

Now I'm English, but there's a huge variation in accents across England, so it's funny to hear people saying they like the "british accent".

I have a kind of fairly neutral well-spoken british accent (a bit of a cross-between mild cockney and upper class queens english with a dash of Uk midlands) due to growing up in the south of England just outside London, but I also lived in Birmingham in the midlands of the UK for several years - and the Birmingham accent (brummie) can be pretty unintelligible at times, and is normally voted worst accent in the UK (no offense to any brummies out there).

So in the US you say "Hi, how are you today?" (at least in Seattle they do!)

In Birmingham (West Midlands) it would be "Hiya Bab, ow's it gewing" (trying to spell it like it sounds!)

In Leicester (East Midlands) it's "Alright me duck, how ya doing"

I use the term "mate" a lot for someone I know well.

Are there any terms like "mate", "Bab" or "me duck" that only get used in certain parts of the US?