A BBC radio 4 quiz on Northern words, especially for Marky mark

[ianrauk]

3/12

Though I take issue with number 12 (the only one I actually knew). It's also a southerner word going back many years.

 

[John the Monkey]

Lived in Cheshire for most of my life, and never heard "bletch".

7/12, with bletch being one I didn't get, along with a Liverpudlian one and most of the words from the North East.

 

[Zimbob]

6/12 - nae bad for a Heelander

Now what we need is a test on the 'Dingwall Cant'

 

[wheresthetorch]

6 from this Southerner.

 

[TrishE]

I knew 6 I lived most of my life up north too never heard some of those words. Chips n scraps in Yorkshire but when I moved to the north east they didn't know what I meant they called them batter pieces. Nesh and ket is north east to me too along with nettie which wasn't in the quiz

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Your Result

6/12

A good effort. Certainly not bobbins.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

7/12. Some guesses, some I knew and a couple which are common usage in Shropshire so not that northern.

 

[jefmcg]

Lived in Cheshire for most of my life, and never heard "bletch".

Bletch is a character from Peter Jackson master work ...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=094jCv3iFfI

 

[Ruthie]

9/12

 

[NorthernDave]

13/12, but then I am a professional Northerner.
And they did try and sneak in a few southern words. Cheshire indeed!

[QUOTE 4437722, member: 259"]9/12 for me, but lots of them are not that northern, you hear them well into the east midlands.[/QUOTE]

Anything above Watford is 'norvern' to the BBC though isn't it..?

A genuine 1/12 and I did try. Maybe next time I need to do it after 3 pints of warm flat beer, cover my face in soot and stand outside the dole office with my 17 children and 10 ferrets.

Lightweight

 

[Milkfloat]

7/12 I have spent too long north of Watford Gap

 

[Levo-Lon]

4/12 my lot come from up norf..not heard any of them..thwak on thead for thee then

 

[John the Monkey]

4/12 my lot come from up norf..not heard any of them..thwak on thead for thee then

'appen.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

A genuine 1/12 and I did try. Maybe next time I need to do it after 3 pints of warm flat beer, cover my face in soot and stand outside the dole office with my 17 children and 10 ferrets.

You ignoant so and so, how dare you leave t'whippets at home and not have a racing pigeon called Eric on your shoulder when you go to the free money shop.

 

[Markymark]

You ignoant so and so, how dare you leave t'whippets at home and not have a racing pigeon called Eric on your shoulder when you go to the free money shop.

If I was in Manchester there'd be no room on my shoulder due to the massive chip