Words specifically used in one area of the country

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

One I came across when working for the armed forces is "it's gone tits up" for something that's broke

 

[Hotblack Desiato]

I'm sure I heard somewhere that in Liverpool they all call each other 'wack'. Clever of them not to get confused.

 

[summerdays]

One I came across when working for the armed forces is "it's gone tits up" for something that's broke

Isn't that a common expression everywhere? (genuine question).

 

[LarryDuff]

A word I like is sheugh (pronounced shuck) meaning a ditch or trench in a field.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I like the Scottish word stoater which is used to describe something of exceptional quality.

 

[ufkacbln]

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

The heel of a loaf fresh from the oven and buttered was a real delicacy that was only bestowed in reward for exceptionally good behaviour

 

[Tommy2]

If someone is getting mad as in angry then they are said to be going "leet"
So if you break your mothers favourite vase you say "dunt tell me mam ors she'll g' leet"
Meaning don't tell my mother or else she will go mad.

 

[Twilkes]

I'm sure I heard somewhere that in Liverpool they all call each other 'wack'. Clever of them not to get confused.

I'm always surprised that more people in Glasgow aren't called Wayne, because it would mean their parents wouldn't have to remember it when yelling in supermarkets:

'Where'z ma wean?!'

 

[ufkacbln]

I loved the "Stoptober" anti-smoking campaign after someone pointed out that a " tober" in Scotland is a sexual reference

Had great fun pointing out at a Trust Clinical Governance meeting what it meant to a Scot

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Isn't that a common expression everywhere? (genuine question).

don't know - never came across it before and none of the people I know use it nowadays. get some strange looks when I do say it...

 

[summerdays]

don't know - never came across it before and none of the people I know use it nowadays. get some strange looks when I do say it...

Ok - I wouldn't have realised it wasn't - now I'm going to be watching out to see who uses it.

 

[Hover Fly]

Gay: very (Gay radged: very daft)
Gurn: complain in an ineffective method, "All you do is gurn at me about the bus always being late, why don't you complain to Stagecoach?" (Different to the west Cumberland use for pulling faces)
Clemmy: small stone of a handy size for throwing.
Radged: daft.
Yam: where one lives.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

One I came across when working for the armed forces is "it's gone tits up" for something that's broke

Tits up is pretty general, I think.

 

[Maz]

Spice instead of sweets in South Yorkshire in the 1920's to 50's.

Even up to the 70s, as a kid in Sheffield.

 

[ayceejay]

As well as the words it's the way you say 'em. Growing up in Wiltshire I spoke like everyone around me but once in Junior school we had an English teacher from Yorkshire who had us recite the alphabet over and over. It was only when she suggested that the correct way to pronounce 'I' was aye that we exaggerated our pronunciation which was eye.