Words specifically used in one area of the country

[400bhp]

A particular type of large barm was referred to as an 'oven bottom' in Burnley.

Oven bottoms around here are barm cakes that look a bit sickly. They are white and (as you guessed) baked at the bottom of the oven.

Flying saucers = 12" barm cakes. Perfect for an all day breakfast on a barm

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2228220, member: 259"]I think this was used in a lot of places, but miners often used to use he word 'snap' for their dinner, which they took to work in a snap tin. I've never known if it was the tin that gave it the name or if it was the food that gave the tin the name (if that makes any sense).[/quote]

No more than usual.

 

[PaulB]

Wouldn't someone from Sheffield indicate that something referred to being absent from the metal box by saying 'tintintin'? Slowed down it would read 't'in't in t'tin'.

 

[Pale Rider]

Tits up is pretty general, I think.

One which I believe originated from the American forces is SNAFU - situation normal, all (messed) up.

 

[marinyork]

Wouldn't someone from Sheffield indicate that something referred to being absent from the metal box by saying 'tintintin'? Slowed down it would read 't'in't in t'tin'.

Da knows.

 

[Tommy2]

Tha noz

 

[Pennine-Paul]

Piffy on a rock bun............................feeling left out

 

[mr messy]

Oven bottoms around here are barm cakes that look a bit sickly. They are white and (as you guessed) baked at the bottom of the oven.

Flying saucers = 12" barm cakes. Perfect for an all day breakfast on a barm

Not sure bout "barms" but we in Glasgow have various sizes of "bams" which get readily offered up "square go's"

 

[doctornige]

Being a travelling sort of person, my ear for accent or dialect tends to be good and I can pick up on what's being said anywhere...except Aberdeenshire! Doric is so strange, I'm sure I'd understand more in the most nationalist bars of Llanberis than in pubs in the outer areas of Aberdeenshire. The first time I heard it I assumed it was Gaelic but certain words are said in (very heavily accented) English to dispel that theory. It makes no sense at all to an English speaker and even a Scottish colleague I was once with was as mystified as me as to what was being said.

Anyone know any Doric words or phrases?

Yes. Many!

 

[doctornige]

Doric stuff that springs to mind ...

Teuchter: country folk
Gie: very
Michty: very
Meikle ('muckle'): large
Pap: breast
Cac: poo
Neeps: turnips
Ken: know
Fit?: what?
Fit like?: How are you?
Doos: pigeons
Foo's yer doos?: How are you? (How are your pigeons?)
They'e aye peckin': classic response to foo's yer doos
Fa': who
Park: field
Brae: small hill
Lea: another small hill
Sonsie: lovely
Aboon: among

I could go on ,,,

 

[Minotier]

Folk from Sheffield are known by the rest of South Yorkshire as 'Dee Dars'
Folk from Rotherham are known by Sheffielders as 'Toytowners'
Folk from Barnsley are 'Tarn lads or lasses'
Folk from Doncaster are known as 'Pikeys' (Due to the large travelling community that pass through. Apparently the biggest concentration of itinerants in western Europe!)
When Doncaster Rovers played Rotherham at Millmoor (sadly missed) They used to play 'Gypsies,Tramps and Thieves by Cher over the PA as Donny ran out!

South Yorkshire did not exist officially until the 1974 boundary changes. Until then Yorkshire was the Three Ridings it had been since the Danelaw began. Legacy of the Norse settlers in the ninth century!

 

[machew]

Some from around Birmingham
Air - The wife
Blartin - crying
Bag of suck - sweets
Yam Yam - Resdent of Dudley
Yed - head

 

[MontyVeda]

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

What's all that about?

Southerners being wrong, that's what it's about.

 

[MontyVeda]

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Flying saucers = 12" barm cakes. Perfect for an all day breakfast on a barm

AKA a stottie. other sizes are available so long as they're bigger than a bun/bap/barmcake

'Duck' is also common around Derby.
and blokes calling blokes 'love' is heard in Leeds too.

ginnel and snikket, both common in Lancaster.

does anybody else know of a 'jacob's join?

 

[ColinJ]

... ;nd blokes calling blokes 'love' is heard in Leeds too.

Ah - the man who sells me fruit & veg at the local market is from Leeds and he does that; it always throws me!