Words specifically used in one area of the country

[vernon]

I thought it was 'boak' or 'boke' actually, it's a word seldom written

There's another slant on regional variations for study...

 

[vernon]

snicket

A narrow alley for a fumble, but usually a place to gather dog poo on your shoe.

Alternatives - 'ten foot' in Hull and 'ginnel' in Leeds

 

[ufkacbln]

I love the Portsmouth noun / verb "squinny" as in someone combining about nothing

You can be a Squinny,or you can Squinny

A fractious child for instance is a Squinny and will be told to stop squinnying

 

[vernon]

Now that is interesting, it is in common usage throughout Scotland.
I have always felt the need to translate for everyone south of the border.

A 'moolit flit' was the act of tennants moving on under the cover of darkness leaving their rent arrears behind.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

a bread roll = muffin (for my OH) = bap (for me).
stottie = large bap about 6-8" in diameter (in the Lakes)
an oatcake for me is a savoury pancake made of oats - don't confuse with the Scottish oatcakes (confusing because I was born in Glasgow but spent some of my childhood in the Potteries).
tatty scone = potato cakes
tatties = potatos (try asking saying " 'ave y'u not got no tatties?" in a supermarket in the south of england and watch people turn and stare!)
square sausage = a skinless sausage made into squares about 2-3" sqaure and maybe 1/2" wide (just seems to a certain area of Glasgow that I was born in)
dumpling = slices of a sweet fruit & suet mixture that is sliced & fried see here http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/scottish_recipes_Cloutie_Dumpling.htm
burn = beck = brook = race = gill = larger stream but not a river depending on where I am in the country (and I am sure there are more)
go'in up 'anley = roughly translates as "I'm going to Hanley" (definitely a Potteries thing!)
duck or love at the end of a sentence as in "u're rite duck?" = are you OK?
chip butty = slice of white bread, buttered liberally, half filled with chips and folded over and eaten by hand - lick butter off hands as quickly as possible. (I'm told I set myself aside from the rest of my work colleges when I first made one in the canteen at the boarding school I had just started work in (dinner not lunch btw) I was very clearly from north of the M3 and the only other "northerner" there (from Hull!) said he knew from that moment on he and I would be good friends just by the looks of sheer horror on everyone else's faces!)

EDIT: missed out "a squall", had to explain that one to my husband when I first met him

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

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?

To add to the variety, some folk call their main evening (north: tea, south: dinner) meal ''supper.''

As for ''siling,'' which Riding of Yorkshire do you ride in? I was just wondering how widespread it was.

I've just remembered hearing ''fond'' for daft or simple, as in a ''fond old man.'' Years and years ago, that was, so it may no longer be current. Probably West Yorkshire.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

' me duck ' is one from Wellingborough/Rushden area of Northamptonshire

Up in Leicestershire too. The Mrs always enjoyed trips to the grandparents round Loughborough for getting called me'Duck.

Geordie is lovely. a couple of favourites:
Ha'way: Come on (my dogs respond far better to ha'way than anything else now)
A'm hacky from plodging in the clarts: I'm dirty from walking in the mud.
Haddaway and sh*te; Really? I think you must be mistaken my good man.

edit: Stotties are a geordie delecacy too. School dinners was alwas soup and a stottie from the local bread shop.

 

[vernon]

'Gadgy' is another Romany word used in the north east to describe a man

Others:

'minge' - vagina
'pagger' - hit or punch

 

[summerdays]

Heel of a loaf - the crusty bit at either end (NI and possibly Scotland?)

 

[Over The Hill]

On the radio last week Ken dot Bruce spoke to Susan Boyle and asked her about here life before her fame -
"I used to get up late and go and get my messages" was her reply.
Not heard that for 30 years (Scottish Girlfriend way back). Messages being shopping (from your Message Line= Shopping list)

Wife's family all use "boughten" to mean something bought from a shop rather than home made.

 

[mr_hippo]

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?

It has more to do with class rather than region.
In the days of big houses and servants, it was impossible for the kitchen to prepare and the staff to serve two dinners at the same time so the upstairs had their main meal, dinner, in the evening and a light meal, lunch, at midday. The main meal for the downstairs, also called dinner, was served at lunchtime. 'Tea' is possibly named after the closest upstairs equivalent meal and that was 'afternoon tea'
So breakfast, dinner and tea was mainly a working class thing but the Hyacinth Buckets of the time did not want to be associaated with the working classes so the started to have lunch.
When schools started serving meals at midday, for some childen it was possibly their only hot meal of the day and as it would be their main meal it became school dinner. Many school kitchens were open at weekends and holidays for these children so they could have one hot meal a day. This continued in some places until the mid 50's

 

[ianrauk]

Scran (food)?

In London it's Scram.

 

[ianrauk]

Innit = isn't it (west london)

All over London, not just West.

 

[Saluki]

I remember being told by my Gran to "Stop you a pingling" or to stop playing with my food. To pingle is one of those long lost Norfolk phrases that I adore.
I have done a fair bit of travelling and have never heard ourside of Norfolk:
Keep yew a douin (hurry up)
On the huh. (something not quite straight)
Dodaman (snail)
Bishy-Barney-Bee (ladybird)
Heaterpeice (that funny grass triangle at rural T junctions)
Loke (alley or lane, what Northerners call a snicket)

My poor husband, a Yorkshireman, has had to learn a whole new language When he first asked me what a 'voo' was, I nearly spat my toast out. Poor lad looked a bit confoosed

 

[JohnC60]

[QUOTE 2227497, member: 259"]And 'jitty' in Derbyshire and Notts.[/quote]
"Twitten" if you're from Sussex