Moving Pictures

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I had been getting some conflicting stories concerning this annotation, so I hope that this time I have managed to get it right.

Apparently “Yer what?” is a common London phrase, used when you didn’t catch what someone said, or you want them to repeat it because you can’t believe it.

The longer form is more typically associated with soccer fans, as part of a chant, usually made in response to an opposing supporter army’s war cries in an attempt to imply a certain lack of volume (and hence numbers) to the other side’s support: