Words specifically used in one area of the country

[User482]

I hear people from t'other side of the Pennines say "while" to mean "since":

"I have been here while nine O'Clock"

It's very localized though. You hear it in Helmshore but not in Bury.

 

[summerdays]

"Where's that to?" I've even used that one myself a couple of times - picked up from just living here.

 

[fatblokish]

I grew up in Sheffield in the 70s and was regularly treated to spice by my grandparents.

Me too, on both counts. You will surely remember yitten=scared.

 

[mr_hippo]

pobs - bread and milk

Pieces of Bread Soaked in milk; normally white bread in a bowl of hot milk with a spoonful of sugar sprinkled on it and given young, sick children. I used to love it.
Moggy normally means cat but in St Helens it means mouse and cheese is moggy meat.
Slummy; loose change
Bally Ann Day is the day before payday and you have no money so you search the back of the sofa and armchairs for slummy
Only heard it in Widnes a 'cut loaf'; not as you would think, a sliced one but a loaf of bread that you cut yourself
'Door step', a thickly sliced butty, hence the St Helens expression 'As thick as a Green Bank butty' Green Bank is an area in St Helens
Lobbies; a meal in the Liverpool area; possibly a contraction of lobscouse; any meal and does not necessarily mean a pan of scouse
One expression that was popular when I was in the Army many moons ago was 'Twos up'' meaning 'After you with the paper or whatever'. Not from may neck of the woods, anyone heard it?

 

[Peteaud]

You hear that here as well. Never heard anyone saying gurt though think that's strictly Bristol.

Gurt or Gert is Somerset, our neighbour uses it all the time.

Dilly - trolley, again somerset.

 

[longers]

I've only heard "tit" used instead of petrol in Rochdale - is it used anywhere else?

 

[ASC1951]

Gurt or Gert is Somerset, our neighbour uses it all the time.
.

Very common in the north, especially the Norse-settled parts.

 

[Tommy2]

Is that as in being "cock of your class/year at school"?

What about scratters

"Cock" instead of "mate" like when you say hello to someone you say "ay up cock"
Also can say "now then si thee"

 

[marinyork]

A few more South Yorkshire ones: -
Ginnel = passageway (interchnageable with snicket)
Thi or Tha - You (probably corruption of Thee)
Thissen = Yourself

Pronunciation of there sound more like 'thiyer'
Also a tendency to drop the s from plurals, e.g.: 'That were 3 week ago'

I learnt that one from my mum and then couldn't work out why no-one understood me when I used it at school (in Yorkshire)

**Cough**. DEE and DAR!

There, where and were are all said different. Why generations of school children in Sheffield spelt where and were the 'wrong' way round.

 

[martint235]

I'm an East Lancashire lad and when I was growing up, it was before people really moved around a great deal in the area and so words tended to be localised to the towns themselves. A friend of mine was very proud of the fact that he could tell which town you were from by how you spoke. My accent confused him as may dad was from Blackburn but my mum was from Liverpool.

I do remember oven bottoms but to my scouse mother they were always barm cakes. Tea cakes are things with currants in them.

Slops = police. Apparently to a scouser, slop is police backwards. (don't ask me!!)

I'm sure I'll think of others.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I've only heard ''seiling,'' as in ''the rain was seiling down'' in South Yorkshire. And water rhymes with batter, though that's pronunciation rather than a dialect term.

 

[gbb]

One expression that was popular when I was in the Army many moons ago was 'Twos up'' meaning 'After you with the paper or whatever'. Not from may neck of the woods, anyone heard it?

That ones not restricted to the older generation either, I've heard it used by teenagers when asking their friend to share a cigarette...'twos ?' usually. That's in Peterborough.

 

[martint235]

I've only heard ''seiling,'' as in ''the rain was seiling down'' in South Yorkshire. And water rhymes with batter, though that's pronunciation rather than a dialect term.

Water rhyming with batter is an East Lancs pronunciation too.

 

[MossCommuter]

That ones not restricted to the older generation either, I've heard it used by teenagers when asking their friend to share a cigarette...'twos ?' usually. That's in Peterborough.

We used to ask mates for 'dockers' or the last couple of drags from an almost finished cigarette

 

[Onthedrops]

I've only heard ''seiling,'' as in ''the rain was seiling down'' in South Yorkshire. And water rhymes with batter, though that's pronunciation rather than a dialect term.

Siling it down = heavy rain (as it is doing here right now!)

Not wishing to hijack this thread (I think it's a very good one.) I think it's a northern thing that our mealtimes are:
Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper (usually a pre bedtime drink and snack.

I think down south it's usually;
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

What's all that about?