What is some local slang that you thought was more widespread?
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ResortDirect117@reddit
calling chewing gum spoggy
newtobitcoin111@reddit
Innit
MeboldRice@reddit
IT’S A BATCH!!!
Gloomy_Driver2664@reddit
Got to be Warks area!
MeboldRice@reddit
Coventry!
Otocolobus_manul8@reddit
I never realised how weird calling Coke, Sprtie, IRN BRU etc. 'juice' outside of Scotland was until somewhat recently.
DevilsAdvocate1662@reddit
None of those drinks contain fruit, why would you call them juice?
KingCPresley@reddit
Aye but we’re not calling them fruit juice - that’s reserved for like, Tropicana type juices.
Juice - fizzy drinks like Coke, sprite etc. ‘you want a can of juice? We’ve got Coke and sprite’ Diluting juice - I think most of England call this squash? ‘Nah I’ll have a glass of diluting juice please’
Disagree with the other commenter though, I don’t know anybody that would call diluting juice ‘juice’ - always needs diluting in front!
Cultural-Ambition211@reddit
All soft drinks other than water and milk are called juice in Scotland.
DevilsAdvocate1662@reddit
How strange, how do you differentiate between a Sprite and a Coke if they're called the same thing?
Cultural-Ambition211@reddit
Juice is the general term encompassing everything.
You still specify what you want. “We need juice from the shop, can you get diluting, coke and Irn bru?”
Aid_Le_Sultan@reddit
How about “dilutin’”
Elegant-Mission-4470@reddit
I'd at least figure that one out seeing as we call if dilute in parts of west Yorkshire
Aid_Le_Sultan@reddit
I’ve lived in West Yorkshire for over 30 years and never heard it here. Where specifically uses it?
Elegant-Mission-4470@reddit
Same place we call the extra fish and chip batter "bits"
Small-External4419@reddit
Haha as an Englishman studying in Glasgow I was very surprised at my friend giving me a glass of coke after being asked if I wanted some juice
AWBaader@reddit
When I first moved to Edinburgh I was at a pal's house and was about to pop to the shop so I asked if anyone wanted owt. His 10 year old asked me to bring him some juice. "Healthy young lad" I thought to myself. Man, was he a disappointed young lad when I got back from the shop...
Competitive-Fact-820@reddit
My husband calls all forms of pop "ginger" - grew up in Glasgow.
Effective_Guitar_206@reddit
I've never heard that.
Cakeo@reddit
Pretty common with older generations in Glasgow. Ginger beer apparently was the first commonly available soft drink in Glasgow, hence everything being called ginger. Similar to some places in the US call them all coke.
Most people would call it juice.
Another thing is we call it diluting juice up here rather than squash.
Cultural-Ambition211@reddit
Diluting juice is the correct name.
eekamouse4@reddit
Ginger, juice or even lemonade but then you would have to ask “what flavour?” Even the lemonade is just juice until the flavour is verified.
Competitive-Fact-820@reddit
Well, he does turn 60 this year, so I guess that makes him older generation ;)
Rusty_Tap@reddit
My partner and family call squash "juice". I've never been so disappointed to receive a glass of orange squash in my entire life.
lilphoenixgirl95@reddit
My family always called juice ‘squash’ as well. East midlands. Grandparents originally from Ireland but left when they were 14.
sock_cooker@reddit
My dad always called them "minerals" (Irish)
jlangue@reddit
Used in Manchester as well in the old days.
Active_Definition_57@reddit
My dad wasn't Irish and used "mineral(s)" too. We used to correct him when asked by waiting staff as they would take it to mean "mineral water", which he wouldn't want.
PerkyMcPerkface@reddit
My other half is from Northern Ireland and says the same thing
Mukatsukuz@reddit
I dated a lass from Georgia in the US and it was weird how she called all fizzy drinks "Coke". It led to confusing conversations like: "Would you like a can of Coke?" "Yes, please" "Which? I've got Fanta and lemonade"
Fingers_9@reddit
There's some people that call orange squash juice too, which is weird to me.
dennis3282@reddit
My wife does. We have squash, we have juice.
She asked for a glass of juice, then was disappointed when she got a glass of juice.
Old_Introduction_395@reddit
I went shopping for someone who wanted juice, I put a carton of juice. They wanted a bottle of squash.
Fingers_9@reddit
I hope they learnt their lesson.
Old_Introduction_395@reddit
They were mardy about it.
catsaregreat78@reddit
It’s a can of juice..!
disastermoons@reddit
'Daps' for those slip-on pumps you wear in PE at primary school! I'm from Gloucestershire and it seems only to be a think in Gloucestershire and parts of Wales
Specific_Tap7296@reddit
Mither. Essentially the same as bother but much more useful somehow.
Greggs-the-bakers@reddit
That's just how we say mother in Scotland
Tuppence_Wise@reddit
Mither as in bother = m-eye-ther Mither as in mammy = m-ih-ther
I use both
Greggs-the-bakers@reddit
Ahhh I didn't realise the word meaning bother was pronounced differently
Plus-Ambassador-9668@reddit
I was distance-buying a car a few years ago and remembered being totally put off by the salesman emailing he was sorry to be mithering me. I genuinely thought it was keysmash and he meant to type “bothering”
officearsehole@reddit
Calling the travelling fair the mop, that isn’t a thing outside of Warwickshire evidently…
Tuppence_Wise@reddit
That's my favourite thing to ask somebody - what they call the fair! I've heard carni, switchies, lighties, and the shows.
ZeroZer0_@reddit
Mop fairs are a certain designation of fair, many towns have charter fairs etc that have been going for hundreds of years.
officearsehole@reddit
Where I grew up there were two travelling fairs the Mop and a smaller one a few weeks later called the Runaway Mop and that was it. Thanks for gatekeeping my local history though!
ZeroZer0_@reddit
A mop was a historic term for a hiring fair. Only commenting because I’m actually a travelling showman who operates at these fairs. Very proud of the heritage and history behind these fairs. Not really gatekeeping tbh but cheers.
swoticus@reddit
I thought a mop fair was a specific thing for job seekers, who would carry a tool of their trade to easily ID their skills, i.e. a mop was carried by someone who cleans.
officearsehole@reddit
That’s the origins of it but it’s just the traveling fair these days.
Cro-magnolia@reddit
I'm crossing over into the realm of dialect here, but when we first venture out of the Black Country, we have to train ourselves to say Yes instead of Ar. (Of course this is dying out).
Friendly-Zone-2883@reddit
Townies - those who are into fashion.
VeggieLegs21@reddit
'On the drag' for running late in East Anglia. I was at least 30 before I found out this isn't a widely used expression.
athelstanjnr@reddit
I’m not sure if it’s a Gloucestershire thing or purely a Forest of Dean thing but we sometimes say “Au Bist” (ow bist) for how are you, usually followed with “Ol’ butt” - someone recently told me it was when German POW’s stayed after WW2 and became miners, and it was the mixture of German and West Country that caused it!
Cro-magnolia@reddit
In Black Country dialect, 'ah bist yer?'' (not yow) means How are you?
Sure-Recognition-262@reddit
Regarding "pop", I thought that was fairly universal throughout England.
But here in Scotland, it'd be "juice" or "fizzy juice"
slade364@reddit
Council pop is tap water in Brum. Made me laugh when I first heard it.
catsaregreat78@reddit
Cooncil juice in a lot of Scotland (the oo sounds rhyme for most of us)
Sure-Recognition-262@reddit
Not to be confused with coo juice (milk)
Tuppence_Wise@reddit
what do you take in your tea? just two n a coo
catsaregreat78@reddit
Very true. Fit di coos drink? Nae coo juice, unless they’re calvies
RealLongwayround@reddit
We drink Longridge Pop in Preston, Lancs.
LostClock1@reddit
Pop is definitely more of a northern thing. I didn't hear it until I went to university
Gelkoid@reddit
Or ginger
jaggy_bunnet@reddit
Or skoosh.
Sure-Recognition-262@reddit
Yeah, though I think "ginger" is just Glasgow and the surrounding area, whereas "juice" is Scotland-wide
LoudComplex0692@reddit
Another Black Country/ Midlands word is “gambol” for a forward roll. I didn’t realise this until I used it in front of some friends from London and they burst out laughing.
RiskItForAChocHobnob@reddit
Calling a round about an island is also apparently a midlands only thing
Plus-Ambassador-9668@reddit
We just call them circles
Tuppence_Wise@reddit
Dundee?
Lanthanidedeposit@reddit
When I worked in the Black Country I had a colleague called Tracy. She lived by a roundabout which we all called Tracy Island.
Until today I had no idea that this was a local term. Still fuming that the perfectly good one where I live is being replaced by even more lights.
LoudComplex0692@reddit
Oh yes I’ve run into this issue before too. I live in Sheffield and for a while thought Kelham Island was a big roundabout (spoilers: it isn’t)
HarketSavoy@reddit
I lived there for a decade and I could never work out what Kelham Island was. There’s a sign but no obvious “island”…
Foxxio@reddit
"The island on which it is located is man-made, resulting from the construction of a mill race, in the 12th century, which diverted water from the River Don to power a corn mill"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelham_Island_Museum
LoudComplex0692@reddit
It used to be an island on the river apparently before they connected it to the rest of Sheffield
GreenWoodDragon@reddit
The Pentagon Island in Derby is nowhere near water.
masterofthenets@reddit
I grew up in North Staffordshire and we called them “bully-heads”. My wife apparently has never heard this term. This thread is making me wonder just how local a term it was.
Fingers_9@reddit
A traffic island to me is the bit of pavement in the middle of a road, for crossing.
thedrape@reddit
I got some funny looks when I said this at Uni, never realised it was a Birmingham thing
ScumFromBrum@reddit
Calling an off-license “the outdoor” is something else I remember growing up, which I don’t think is used elsewhere. Not sure it’s even used here anymore as I’ve not heard anyone refer to it as that for a while
ShriCamel@reddit
Memory unlocked. Hadn't realised it was specific to the Midlands.
Did your Nan used to urge you to "wash your donnies" before dinner? 😊
Key_Plum_99a@reddit
I also remember Nan saying Wash your donnies. It comes from the French for give me, “donnez moi” as in shortened version of give me your hands, weird innit!
Histology-tech-1974@reddit
Yes! I remember now!
giveitsometechno@reddit
Hang on,do yous do so many forward rolls you have a shorthand for it? And..what is a forward roll?
Small-External4419@reddit
So what’s a backwards roll then? A reverse gambol?
Aromatic-Editor-8712@reddit (OP)
A Lobmag.
Jazzlike-Basil1355@reddit
Lazy Lobmag?
help_pls_2112@reddit
Snowyrunt@reddit
I'm from the East Mids and lived in Stafford for years too, and I've never heard this before.
LoudComplex0692@reddit
Must be very localised to West Mids then!
BaseMonkeySAMBO@reddit
Used in martial arts as well
Mischeese@reddit
Isn’t that what Sheep do?? (Surrey/London here)
Low-Confidence-1401@reddit
Yes, gambolling is normally a bit like frolicking
togtogtog@reddit
That is a rolley polley.
ellasfella68@reddit
You describe forward rolls so often that you need a special word for them?
slade364@reddit
When you're a kid, sure.
ellasfella68@reddit
This is Reddit, friend. Nothing but mature adults as far as the eye can see…
LoveBeBrave@reddit
This might surprise you but people who call them gambols as children still call them gambols when they’re adults.
tiorzol@reddit
Rolly poly?
__Severus__Snape__@reddit
My mum always called it doing the dokies. Its probably a Scottish thing, but we moved to England when I was 3, so i cant be certain.
Remote-Pool7787@reddit
Grew up in Glasgow where it’s called tumble yer wulkies
68_namfloW@reddit
Roly poly for me in the north west.
Xiniov@reddit
Yep, this one caught me out when I was older. Thought it was just the well-known term for a forward roll.
PsychologicalDrone@reddit
I used to work with a chap from Birmingham who used the term gambol/gambolling, and I thought he was just saying “going bowling” in a weird way. After a number of looks he figured out that he needed to explain the term to our work group because we honestly had no idea
Uhura-hoop@reddit
Yes I noticed this confounded people until I would clarify by saying fwd roll instead. I thought everyone called it that 😆
Aromatic-Editor-8712@reddit (OP)
Wait, that's only in the Midlands?
chefshoes@reddit
lived in lancashire for over 20yrs, thought barm was a thing till i moved to south wales and the look of confusion at the chip shop
PsychologicalDrone@reddit
Both “soda” and “pop” are not used in my area. Pretty much the only acceptable term is “fizzy drink”
lilphoenixgirl95@reddit
Same. Midlands?
PsychologicalDrone@reddit
Nope, East. Or maybe south east? Hertfordshire, whatever that qualifies as
youdontknowmeyouknow@reddit
Bedfordshire here, we use fizzy drink too.
lilphoenixgirl95@reddit
I’m East Midlands. Maybe it spread up us here
Demmos_Stammer@reddit
Used to be a bottle of ginger, where I am in Scotland.
Extra_Actuary8244@reddit
In wales and west mids we say pop
DoItForTheTea@reddit
fizzy juice here
Bipolar03@reddit
I don't know if it's local or something just my husband says. When I ask for some water, he says "it's not water, it's council pop."
CigarsofthePharoahs@reddit
Cheeselogs. Turns out that's a very local slang for woodlouse.
GesterX@reddit
Greebo for rock/skater dudes (Midlands/Black Country).
Lanthanidedeposit@reddit
Greebo predated the Stourbridge scene. It was an insult, see below
CrustyHumdinger@reddit
Nah, PWEI made that common
Whulad@reddit
Greebo is old slang for a greaser itself slang for a rocker from the 60s in London.
the-TARDIS-ran-away@reddit
We used that in Essex
MeltingChocolateAhh@reddit
We said that where I'm from when I was at secondary school (south east England) but it was greeb, not greebo. And they were very distinct from "emo". A greeb is usually greasier/dirtier. It's more of an insult than anything
TJTheree@reddit
Yep same in SE too
VOOLUL@reddit
My mates also call Monster/Rockstar/Relentless Greebo juice. There's always a can nearby.
jakethepeg1989@reddit
I met someone from Leighton Buzzard who's friends all called him Greebo.
Literally had no idea it wasn't just a weird surname.
Then I learnt that its just an essex thing to call someone their surname.
bluepizzabooks@reddit
South Wales - Tamping = angry - Buzzing = disgusting - Hanging (drop the H for correct pronunciation) = disgusting
- Bumping = smells bad
Medical-Fox2471@reddit
Mardy
bluepizzabooks@reddit
Also, aft
VOOLUL@reddit
Where is this local to? I'm Midlands and it's pretty common here.
Fingers_9@reddit
I think it's the midlands and up.
Legit_Vampire@reddit
Agree I'm from the black country & have rarely used it but up towards stoke is a common phrase
Medical-Fox2471@reddit
The midlands
Extra_Actuary8244@reddit
That’s defo used absolutely everywhere
lilphoenixgirl95@reddit
It originated in the Midlands. Loads of UK people still don’t know it. To me it was like an official word it was used so frequently. I don’t typically pick up slang/dialect words but this one feels more natural than ‘moody’ or whatever
CrustyHumdinger@reddit
Now used everywhere. Source: Bristol
Upset-Elderberry3723@reddit
In Cornwall, they say 'teasy', with the same meaning.
Rusty_Tap@reddit
Cornwall and south Devon with their spicy spuds too, astounded to learn that they don't really exist anywhere else.
Screaming_lambs@reddit
I like to inform my cat she's a mardy bum when she's being a mardy bum.
BradleySans@reddit
And its Yorkshire equivalent, maungy
captain_crackerjack@reddit
In Sheffield the two were pretty much interchangeable when I was growing up
Adam-West@reddit
They do now since the Arctic Monkeys made their song
slade364@reddit
Alex Turner introduced me to this word.
jakethepeg1989@reddit
I've seen your frown and its like looking down the barrel of a gun.
innerbrat@reddit
I didnt realise until I was a full adult how tightly "innit" pinned me down geographically.
Albert_Herring@reddit
As a general tag question that you can use instead of "didn't it", "can he" or "aren't you", etc. rather than just a shortened "isn't it', It's become pretty widespread now via MLE. Think I first heard it around 1990 when it was definitely south-east, but I hear it in the Midlands now.
Terrible_Tap_4385@reddit
I thought it’s Leicester phrase by origin?
innerbrat@reddit
Well I guess im wrong and its only that no one would ever say it in the posh areas around Slough!
lilphoenixgirl95@reddit
Where? We say it in Lincolnshire
innerbrat@reddit
West London/East Berkshire. Specifically Slough.
lilphoenixgirl95@reddit
Interesting! I wonder why Lincolnshire got “innit” as well.
The-foureyes@reddit
In Sussex, plastic wallets are called ‘slippery fish’, blew my mind that this wasn’t a thing elsewhere
Central_Region@reddit
Outwith
Purely a Scottish thing, apparently
https://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/kprx7w/realising_that_the_word_outwith_is_not_used/
Markies_Myth@reddit
It used to be used but only for the tax term "outwith scope". I don't think that applies anymore.
My favourite not realising something is just in Scotland is when my Scottish friends ask "where do you stay?" but to someone non Scottish. And I had to translate "means where do you live?". Stay of course is a temporary residence in other Anglophone contexts.
devlin1888@reddit
What!? Fucking hell, I didn’t know this. I use it all the time
AcanthisittaFit1066@reddit
See that a lot in legal texts, actually. Maybe the authors were Scots?
lilphoenixgirl95@reddit
Different meaning I think. Used in legal texts, it’ll be the traditional/professional meaning. It’s still a legitimate word when used formally for anyone across the country
sock_cooker@reddit
Oh yes and "timeous"
catsaregreat78@reddit
I enjoy chucking an ‘outwith’ or two into a Word doc and then adding to dictionary.
mightytonto@reddit
Brummies call a belly button a “Yumdun” sometimes, because apparently, as god checks babies on the conveyer belt he stamps each one and says “Yum Done”. I can’t verify authenticity of this but I sure think it’s cute!!
matty_lam_937@reddit
'Ginnel'. Usually a small, narrow passageway between houses that leads from one street to another. Slightly different to an alleyway, and usually paved quite nicely. I believe it's a Lancashire thing?!
A few years ago I was telling a story about how we used to climb a tall red-brick wall along the ginnel when we were kids to some relatives from out of town, and they were looking at me oddly, until I realised they had no idea what ginnel meant!
They said it's snicket from their neck of the woods!
Albert_Herring@reddit
Variously ginnel, jenel, jitty, snicket, twitchell, ten-foot, in various places from the Midlands upwards.
Ok_Winner_1354@reddit
Entry in Brum
ShineAtom@reddit
Slight variations are common in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire as well.
PsychologicalBus7357@reddit
A person in the East Midlands can be referred to as "Me Duck", they also day "fount it" or "fount out" instead of found.
queen-of-geese@reddit
My dad's from Dudley and he uses the word "frit" to mean afraid. Like "awww don't be frit". Or, "yam frit" 😂
Legit_Vampire@reddit
That's it mi Mon, I bet yo've bin fritten t jeth aye ya
lilphoenixgirl95@reddit
OMG. that’s why my partner says ‘fount’. I’m also from the East Midlands but my mum and Christian primary school taught me to speak RP without the affectation if that makes sense (so, ‘proper’ pronunciation). I’d never heard it until I met my boyfriend who’s from Boston originally. Honestly it sounds good on him but I still take the piss
Stefgrep66@reddit
I'm from near Boston and another local affectation is rounding out As as in Potatoes -Tearts and Mate- meart As in
You want tearts with your sausages meart!
VolcanicBear@reddit
I think "fount" etc is probably more dialect than slang.
Christ do I hate it lol.
Corona21@reddit
Is it a Germanic hold over for a simple past form? There are lots of -t endings like that
PlatformFeeling8451@reddit
Some people in Nottingham call ears "tabs" which was very confusing for me when I moved here
nottsknight80@reddit
Hence the Notts joke that doesn't travel: 'how do you hold your liquor?'....'by his tabs'.
ShineAtom@reddit
Akso in Derbyshire. Tabrings = earings
CentralSaltServices@reddit
Tabs were cigarettes in my neck of the woods
AussieHxC@reddit
North east?
CentralSaltServices@reddit
Aye
AussieHxC@reddit
Southern lot look at you like you're fuckin mental if you ask for a tab outside the club?
CentralSaltServices@reddit
Better than trying to bum a fag in America!
Fingers_9@reddit
Sone people in Leicestershire call teeth tegs.
jakethepeg1989@reddit
Do they still use the phrase "to keep tabs on things"?
Hippadoppaloppa@reddit
Eyup me duck
MedicalAnteater@reddit
You worra plaggy bag wirrat?
Johhnymaddog316@reddit
My mum's family are from Leicester and whenever my aunt rings me she says "You right, duck?" I've never heard this anywhere else in the country.
Histology-tech-1974@reddit
Stokies say that
bennettbuzz@reddit
Few more East Mids:
Ta me duck = thank you.
Snap = food
It’s a bit Cowd = it’s cold outside.
He’s a rate (silly) bogger = idiot
PutAutomatic2581@reddit
gert lush is gert lush.
Sirlacker@reddit
Whatever you call the round type of bread that you get at a chippy to turn it into a chip sandwich.
Rico1983@reddit
"mush", used similarly to mate or pal.
Only used in parts of South Wales and Portsmouth I think.
Cro-magnolia@reddit
It's from Romanichal and is understood in all of UK
Rico1983@reddit
Well today I learned! Thank you.
Odd_Championship7286@reddit
That Oi mush song was a banger for a while!
Whulad@reddit
Heard it in Bournemouth a lot (and for the first time) when I worked there one summer
Cro-magnolia@reddit
I'm from near Wolverhampton and for me, traffic roundabouts are also called 'islands'. I thought that was universal but apparently not.
Aromatic-Editor-8712@reddit (OP)
This surprises me too, I thought the same.
WestAllot@reddit
I grew up in Bournemouth - “grockle” = tourist. They proper swarm during summer time and bank holidays and us locals can’t get anywhere…
Live in Chester now - “having a mare” = having a frustrating time
Whulad@reddit
I mean having a mare is universally used , very common in the south
Cro-magnolia@reddit
You're right.It's all of uk and it's obviously just a reduced form of 'nightmare' so even someone hearing it for first time will get it.
Noon_Specialist@reddit
I'm sure numbers are down these days, the whole place is turning into a dump. It's a shame.
raffmeup@reddit
Having a mare in Bristol too!
opi7407@reddit
grockle's one my Devonian dad has passed down to me... absolutely brilliant word
Adventurous_Ad3451@reddit
Calling a roundabout a traffic island. ‘You need to turn right at the island’ did not help my southern friend find my house.
tiorzol@reddit
Traffic islands are the pedestrian crossing bits in the middle of the road aren't they?
Cro-magnolia@reddit
Depends where you are from. (That's the point of this thread.)
Mukatsukuz@reddit
Absolutely
Aromatic-Editor-8712@reddit (OP)
I've never heard it called a "traffic island" specifically, though I have certainly heard it called an "island".
Adventurous_Ad3451@reddit
I used ‘traffic’ to make it clear what I was talking about. Thinking about it, that maybe what I have ended up saying for clarity, living somewhere where they don’t use ‘island’. I only used island growing up.
Cakeo@reddit
Well that's confusing.
Aromatic-Editor-8712@reddit (OP)
Ah, that makes sense.
Intelligent_List_58@reddit
Leicester here - “cobs” are local slang for a crusty bread roll: “baps” is the equivalent for a soft roll Its always seemed a v sensible distinction to be able to order a bacon cob vs a bacon bap, and know what you are getting.
Thats_my_nirnroot@reddit
Not quite a relevant answer to the question, but having lived along the boarder of what most people consider the midlands & the South..
I've noticed that people near to Birmingham, regardless of their eccent, tend do drop words like "to" in their sentences..
They'll say things like "can you give it me" instead of "can you give it to me'...
It tends to start around the rugby area, and goes up towards Birmingham?
Sage-Freke-@reddit
Really? I’m from the West Midlands and thought “pop” was nationwide and I’ve been living on the south coast for the last 13 years. This needs urgent investigation.
El_John_Nada@reddit
I thought "chuffed" was way more common than it actually is. I don't really hear it anymore and I only went from North Manchester to South Manchester.
Aromatic-Editor-8712@reddit (OP)
I think that's fairly widespread? It's not common where I am, but I've certainly heard it.
El_John_Nada@reddit
You're probably right, but I swear I haven't heard it in the wild in absolutely ages. Maybe it's just not popular as it used to?
Whulad@reddit
It’s really common - widely used everywhere!
El_John_Nada@reddit
Really? You're probably right, but I swear I haven't heard in the wild in years!
NDita@reddit
Tabs for ears and tegs for teeth were words I thought were just common slang until I met people from outside of Nottingham
Civil_Researcher6140@reddit
I didn’t realise “nesh” meaning gets cold easily was a local term.
My sister trains drs and had to teach this peice of vocab as it’s a symptom of many conditions.
TyphoidMurphy@reddit
Dobby for tag/tig. Narrows you down to within a few miles of where I grew up. Thought it was just what it was called.
NDita@reddit
I had the same thing. I always knew it as dobby and thought 'tag' was just American when I saw people say it on the telly. Also from Nottingham.
Terrible_Tap_4385@reddit
Long Eaton!!!!
Aromatic-Editor-8712@reddit (OP)
I've never heard that before. Where abouts you from?
TyphoidMurphy@reddit
Nottingham. It's very localised to this area/east midlands.
Skubbags@reddit
Gype. I thought it was a Scots words for idiot. Turns out its very unique to doric. Folk in Dundee couldn't pronounce it and had no idea what it meant.
rabidrob42@reddit
Pop in South Wales too. Also didn't know half and half was only a Welsh thing until a few years ago, as in curry, chips and rice in the same box from a chippy/Chinese ETC.
Odd_Championship7286@reddit
“Over by yer”. I barely have a Welsh accent anymore until I’m telling someone where something is and that slips out
Prestigious-Post@reddit
Saying you're on the drag if you're running late for something. Was only until I was saying this at uni to friends I realised it was just a Suffolk saying and people thought I was going to be turning up for the night out as a drag queen.
the-TARDIS-ran-away@reddit
Ive recently moved to Suffolk from Essex and "on the huh" and "hes a rum old bloke" make me giggle.
KevinPhillips-Bong@reddit
Those expressions are also used in Norfolk, though probably not as much as they once were.
PsychologicalDrone@reddit
That would get some looks here because it sounds too much like “on the rag”, which is a gross term for a woman’s monthlies
lilphoenixgirl95@reddit
“a woman’s monthlies” is equally gross lol. “Period” would suffice
PsychologicalDrone@reddit
You’re not wrong. My inner grandpa must have come out when I wrote that
lilphoenixgirl95@reddit
Haha 😆
Boring-Picture-1311@reddit
That was the very example I was going to give - I'd no idea it was Suffolk-specific until I was met with blank stares when I used the phrase in a business meeting.
So_Gawjus@reddit
This has crept into North Essex. As im minutes away from the border haha and the first time I heard someone say this i was like ‘what the fuck is this?’.
Assen9@reddit
Scuse me mister, can I smooth your dog?
Wooden_Astronaut4668@reddit
Smooth.
along with other classic terms such as scrage daps slider
Homebrew_in_a_Shed@reddit
Took me moving half way around the world to realise not everyone else is smoovin the cat.
Yesterday the 2 kids next door asked if they could pet our cat. I said 'smooth' under my brief. Got a tap on the ankle and glared at by my Aussie missus for that.
imanutshell@reddit
Only if you’ll lets I have a go on your slider.
TeamOfPups@reddit
People clap a dog here in Edinburgh
Shot-Specialist-9841@reddit
Where are you from Harley Quinn’s lair 😂
SituationMundane5452@reddit
The word tongue is pronounced totally different around different parts of the uk
mrs_shrew@reddit
I pronounce it like segue
Wooden_Astronaut4668@reddit
lol
Necessary_Umpire_139@reddit
Lancashire friend is correct.
slade364@reddit
Yeah - know a guy from Derbyshire who pronounces the G very heavily.
miscfiles@reddit
My missus hails from Staffordshire and does this. Also hard g in Bolognese. Sounds almost like bollock-nese.
blahblahblah1234_@reddit
Tbf, the way most people pronounce it here is the French way, which to be that annoying pedantic knobhead, is incorrect as it’s Italian and would be said as /boloɲˈɲeːze/. I’m sorry.
miscfiles@reddit
Technically correct, but annoying Italians is so much fun.
blahblahblah1234_@reddit
Lol. That is true, reminds me of Gino D’Acampo’s ‘if my grandmother had wheels, she would’ve been a bike.’
Mukatsukuz@reddit
All my friends (North East England) pronounce monster as munster and, even at the age of 51, I'm not sure if it's an "official" accent thing or if they are just mistaking the word for the TV programme
NecroVelcro@reddit
The only person I know who pronounces the word that way is from Pembrokeshire. About a year after meeting him, I found out that he'd he'd received a life sentence in 2002. The scum should never have been paroled. Hearing anyone else, even if it's just on TV or online, use an "ong" sound for "ung" words now goes through me because I associate it with him.
Specific_Tap7296@reddit
Your friend is correct. It's everyone who needs to correct their "tung".
MrHlk2020@reddit
I pronounce it "tong", I get called a weirdo by my mates from county Durham, apparently it's "tung"
Nyneeve@reddit
I never realised 'mardy' was a northamptonian word until my friends from Wales had to get me to explain it meant stroppy
geltza7@reddit
Scaff (or skaff, not sure of the spelling) is one I found out that wasn't national thing or even a thing local to my small town but actually it's just used in my HALF of this small town. It basically kinda means someone dirty or from like council estate.
"Did you just pick up that sweet after dropping it? Scaff."
But a lot of the more common as muck people (like me) use it in a self depricating way.
"I'm wearing the same socks as yesterday, feel pure scaffy"
Ok_Winner_1354@reddit
Going 'round the Wrekin' meaning going round the houses.. West mids, Shropshire thing
curlywurly1878@reddit
This is very localised. Some people in Wolverhampton don’t even get this - as a scouser with mates from the area, was surprised at this.
Ok_Winner_1354@reddit
Well known in Birmingham
Aromatic-Editor-8712@reddit (OP)
I assumed that was local, since it's named after a local hill.
Appropriate-Bad-9379@reddit
Feeling queer is mainly Lancashire. Nothing to do with sexuality- means you are having a bilious attack…
catsaregreat78@reddit
I’m not sure if that’s just Lancashire. I grew up with queer meaning odd, including not feeling great. More commonly though we’d say we were ‘nae affa weel” or “affa nae weel” depending on severity.
Active_Definition_57@reddit
I think the original, dictionary meaning of queer is to describe something that is odd, out of place or confusing.
catsaregreat78@reddit
It is, before it was definitely used as a slur. We sometimes use it to describe the old man at the end of the road though; no idea of his sexuality but he’s on the odder side of life (and showering. And haircuts. Possibly due to the lack of showering.)
Whulad@reddit
Think that’s just old speak - my Nan, born east London 1905 used to use that.
Appropriate-Bad-9379@reddit
Yes, it must be, given feedback I’m receiving- for some reason I thought it was just Lancashire. My bad…
Xerothor@reddit
My nan says this, Oxfordshire
Active_Definition_57@reddit
My late nan grew up in London and would often say she was feeling queen when she was unwell.
Xerothor@reddit
Mine said it for being unwell and if something was amiss, out of place, or weird
AussieHxC@reddit
Queer for 'funny' in a negative way has been used nationwide for a long time, it's quite old though.
curlywurly1878@reddit
“Head the Ball” as in a person being stupid or acting in a rather foolish way - got some rather strange looks when referring to a street performer in this manner when with friends from down south.
Not even common in Liverpool these days. Seems to be dying out.
verybadgay@reddit
Many years ago I used the word ‘meff’ on Reddit and woke up to about 100 replies from people asking wtf it meant. Discovered it is not a word outside of Liverpool.
Aromatic-Editor-8712@reddit (OP)
What does it mean?
curlywurly1878@reddit
Can be used in various ways - all derogatory. Usually if someone is “being a meff” they are being an idiot. Can also be used if someone is rather unkempt: “look at the state of that meff”
Ok_Winner_1354@reddit
Also Blarting for crying, another Brummie thing
Johhnymaddog316@reddit
Calling the High Street "The Main Drag". This is possibly and East London thing as my family use it a lot but I've never heard it anywhere else.
pixeltash@reddit
I was reading this thread and thinking I don't have anything like this.
Nope, main drag. I'm 50 miles north of London, but my dad was born and grew up in east London and my mum lived lots of places, but spent her late teens early 20s in east London.
Thinking of my mum, she would say "It's five and twenty to" for 35 mins past the hour. I learnt to tell the time early in self defence, as I would hear three numbers in her reply to being asked what the time was, but none of them told me the time.
temujin1976@reddit
Pop for dilutey, fizzy pop for fizzy.
Usual-Sound-2962@reddit
Saying ‘get wrong’ for getting into trouble.
I’m from County Durham, nipped into a shop in York. The girl serving was from Norfolk. We were discussing the lack of public toilets and I said ‘oh no I can’t nip in there can I? I don’t want to get wrong’.
She looked at me like I had 4 heads, asked me to repeat myself then asked what I meant.
timind25@reddit
I grew up in Norfolk and it is (was) common there, so she must have been an exception.
Broad-Train@reddit
I did too. I don't recall hearing it growing up in Norwich but certainly did after moving to more rural areas. I'd say it's less common now.
Usual-Sound-2962@reddit
Ahh that’s good to know! She looked at me like I was insane! 😅
atimelyending@reddit
Whaaat, that's only a north east thing? I'm from durham too, haven't said that in a long time hahaha
TomL79@reddit
Yeah, I’m from Newcastle. I always thought that ‘get wrong’ was pretty standard across the country, but no, it appears it’s a North East thing.
Greggs-the-bakers@reddit
Not so much slang but I remember thinking that Baynes the bakers and Stephens the bakers were at least Scotland wide, if not UK wide, and not just a Fife thing. I just thought everyone had these options instead of Greggs and never questioned why I never saw them anywhere else. I think Baynes has expanded though and is now at least a central belt thing. I remember my mind being blown when I found that out as a teenager, then just felt really sad for all you people who have never experienced a steak bridie from Stephen's.
Adok85@reddit
Moved outa fife. Nobody knows what baffies are. Everyone just cutting about with cold feet I guess
Greggs-the-bakers@reddit
Wait what? Folk outside of fife don't know what baffles are??? I genuinely did think that was just a Scottish thing
xDzerx@reddit
County Durham - A can of alcohol is called a "Tinny". I'm unsure if other areas use the term or not.
Greggs-the-bakers@reddit
Fairly common in Scotland to say you're getting the tinnies in or cracking open a few tinnies
Whulad@reddit
That’s pretty universal and derives from Australian slang I think
lilphoenixgirl95@reddit
Tinny in Lincolnshire as well
Active_Definition_57@reddit
Not British, but I think it's common for Australians to say that
GaryJM@reddit
I've heard this around Scotland.
AberdeenEng@reddit
I recently learned the word "outwith" isnt a word outside Scotland. I sent a report to an English office and was told it wasn't a word. I didnt realise it was only a scots-english word
Jazzlike-Basil1355@reddit
I was called a worky ticket by my SIL from the NE
Norfolkboy123@reddit
Norfolk/Suffolk phrase ‘on the huh’ meaning something is wonky or imperfect. I used it to some friends who were based in Colchester and they were clueless as to what it meant
Any_Preference_4147@reddit
Cwtch
Now in a minute
Tampin'
Crafty-Reality-9425@reddit
I always thought that skriking, as in "I was skriking (crying) my I eyes out" was a commonly know word. I once used this sentence in front of some friends from down South. They were totally confused because they thought that 'skriking' was something that was eaten on Bonfire Night. I had to inform them that 'skriking' means crying and that they had confused 'skriking' with Parkin (a black treacle based cake, for those who don't know what Parkin is).
_FirstOfHerName_@reddit
I'm a Manc and often use striking, live in the East Midlands and they look at me like I've got two heads. They have some weird words round here.
FuzzyBagpuss@reddit
wut?
UnfairWaltz4858@reddit
Jitty. Thought it was pretty normal, moved to a different place... No one knows what a jitty is.
Terrible_Tap_4385@reddit
Derby lingo. Twitchel in Nottingham though
Legitimate_Trifle397@reddit
Where I grew up inWiltshire plimsoles are referred to as daps, it used to drive my wife mad, as before moving to Wiltshire she had never heard of the word.
Own-Lecture251@reddit
Rubbers in Scotland.
EveMonsoon@reddit
or gutties
Over-Language2599@reddit
Daps in Bristol too.
Fingers_9@reddit
Daps for me in south Wales, but they were pumps when I lived in north Wales.
massdebate159@reddit
Cheesy Bob = Wood lice. Heard primarily in the GU area, but nowhere else.
Auntie_Cagul@reddit
They are called 'cheese logs' where I am from.
Terrible_Tap_4385@reddit
Reading massive
CrustyHumdinger@reddit
"Cwtch"...Welsh, I think, means "cuddle"
Nice-Goose-7599@reddit
Cheers Drive
raffmeup@reddit
I mean I’m from Bristol so we say things like “ark at ee” or “gurt lush” or “scrage” or “slider” and probably many many more
CrustyHumdinger@reddit
"Scrage", that takes I back.
El_Moochio@reddit
The game "had" being called tag or tig most anyplace other than where I grew up.
CrustyHumdinger@reddit
"It" - Bristol, 1970s
Mammyjam@reddit
Manchester: apparently 'mither'' isn't nationwide. Also ginnel, Scrike, ee arr, scran, nosh off, and minging to different degrees shared around the North
CrustyHumdinger@reddit
Mither, ginnel, scran, nosh off, minging all well known.
The others...??
LemonMainwaring@reddit
Scram, for a scratch etc. thought it was a universal thing and turns out it’s a Welsh thing
Any_Preference_4147@reddit
Scramo Jonny bach
bookishnatasha89@reddit
Luggy.
Knotty hair.
rezonansmagnetyczny@reddit
Breadcake to describe a Bread roll.
Didn't realise it's only a Hull thing until I was in my 30s
Auntie_Cagul@reddit
Thought that was a Middlesbrough thing.
bill_end@reddit
Breadcake is also said in Sheffield. I learnt that from watching "kays good cooking" on YouTube.
I highly recommend it, but the early videos are the best before she realised you can't cook dry spaghetti in the ovenin the oven. I think the cooking has marginally improved so it's much less hilarious now.
TheOneWithoutGorm@reddit
Barm cake?
rezonansmagnetyczny@reddit
My mate calls it a batch
ZaharaWiggum@reddit
Bap!
HomeConstant6123@reddit
ffs, it's a teacake
Dread_queen23@reddit
I moved from the south east to the south west and I was surprised that Greebo wasn't more widespread..
Greebo- alternative/metalhead, back in the day wore baggy trousers had long hair.
Rhyskrispies@reddit
I’ve never heard Dinlo outside of Bournemouth or Southampton
Local_lifter@reddit
Cruckling (going over on your ankle). Turns out they only say that in Rochdale.
Reddit____user___@reddit
Pop is fairly nationwide and I always thought that a cob was a type or roll.
And I’m not from the midlands.
charliebouncecloud@reddit
While...as in discussing a time period. Ten while two, meaning ten until two. Got ripped to shreds at university for that one!
togtogtog@reddit
I once said 'Cor Blimy' in front of someone, and they were shocked it was actually a thing people really said.
InspiringGecko@reddit
Where is this regional to? I know someone who says this but I don’t know where she’s from originally.
togtogtog@reddit
The south east.
Whulad@reddit
It’s cockney really. From ‘god blind me’
togtogtog@reddit
It's wider than just cockney...
Whulad@reddit
It might but it derives from cockney as ‘god blind me’ in a traditional cockney sounds like ‘cor blimey’
togtogtog@reddit
oh, yeah - I thought most people knew that, so I didn't comment?
SmugDruggler95@reddit
I un-learnt this at uni and have proudly reclaimed it
Uhura-hoop@reddit
My Scottish mate says ‘och aye’ and it’s such a cliche it makes me laugh every time
Which_Reach_3453@reddit
from Greenock. we call “square sausage” Slice.
punkfence@reddit
We just called it spicy sausage, even though it's not particularly spicy
GaryJM@reddit
From Dundee; we call square sausage "Lorne".
Which_Reach_3453@reddit
aye so do Paisley etc. i’ve never heard of another place that calls it exclusively Slice
floydthebarb@reddit
I work in Kilmarnock and all my killie/ayr/prestwick colleagues call it slice.
90210fred@reddit
Not even "square sausage" is universal - never even seen one in the south
catsaregreat78@reddit
North east Scotland - slicey (for we add y or ie to the end of most words!)
G-reeper66@reddit
Well it is! Love some of that with my eggs on the morning
punkfence@reddit
I referred to tangles in my hair as "cotters" around my partner. I googled it to prove that it's a common phrase, only to see it stamped with "regional • rare •archaic"
I was raised by my nan, who was raised in a village in the 1930s, so that probably explains it.
lost_in_midgar@reddit
My (Midlander) partner (Southerner) thinks me calling fizzy drinks ‘pop’ is hilarious.
Fabulous_Coast_8108@reddit
Coventry kid. We call them batches. Been around uk and folks look at you like you are mental when you pop in a chippy and ask for a chip batch.
The_Nunnster@reddit
Similar to you, but West Yorkshire’s own. I call bread rolls ‘teacakes’, and assumed that was the standard until I learnt otherwise. We have a bit more legitimacy to the claim, however, with toasted currant teacakes.
I also thought everyone understood ‘tea’ to mean an evening meal in the right context, as opposed to just the drink. That was until I was chatting to someone whom I believe was from the Black Country on my way down to London for the weekend, and told him when I get off the train I’ll be heading for some tea, and he mockingly imitated drinking a cup of tea and said “ooh, tea!”.
Aromatic-Editor-8712@reddit (OP)
I've always called evening meal 'tea'; maybe that person was simply mistaken?
toilet-breath@reddit
The amount of people that ask for Sprite at a bar/pub. Sprite is lime, but 99% of pubs serve lemonade… lemon not lime. I realised they wanted lemonade not limeade, but it’s a location thing
lilphoenixgirl95@reddit
Straights for proper cigarettes (i.e., not roll-ups or rollies), possibly?
Whulad@reddit
Universal stoners language
coolwillnestan@reddit
dorset — took me a while to realise that dinlo was regional, until one of my mates asked me what it actually meant hahah. I use mush a lot too.
gurt I really didn’t realise was regional until very recently, either! silly stuff like saying chimley instead of chimney too
Whulad@reddit
Older people from London and the South would recognise ‘pop’ - was widely used when I was a kid.
Mischeese@reddit
I moved to a different bit of Surrey years ago and first heard ‘Corey’ used as a nickname for penis. But maybe it’s just a weird Redhill/Reigate thing??
bill_end@reddit
Kunt from Kunt and the Gang refers to a corey in his song about Carol Vorderman's gash.
He's from Basildon so I presume it's common there too
Psorosis@reddit
Tararabit - see you soon
bill_end@reddit
Brum?
lemonherring@reddit
I grew up (Northants) thinking "yourn" was normal slang for "yours" - e.g. Pointing at something - "Is that one yourn?"
Raspberry-Lavender@reddit
Quite a lot of Northumbrian dialect I thought was more known. “Spelk” for splinter, “jiggered” for tired out, etc.
Away-Activity-469@reddit
(Yorkshire). Buffet. I'm down south and offered someone a small stool and they didn't understand.
HomeConstant6123@reddit
You should have offered them a pouffe
MeltingChocolateAhh@reddit
I moved from the south east up to Lancashire, and they said "pants" instead of trousers. I instantly knew what they meant, but I thought they were trying to be American. Turns out it's a Lancashire thing.
HomeConstant6123@reddit
Same here in West Yorkshire. We usually say pants. Would only say trousers if they were formal, tailored trousers.
AussieHxC@reddit
Typically call them pants in the north east too. I moved the other way and people are always confused.
Englands_Finest85@reddit
Where I’m from in Gloucestershire we call an orange juice & lemonade a Henry, asked for one at a pub in Devon the girl at the bar had absolutely no idea what I was going on about.
OldAnalyst5438@reddit
Either croggie or skeg.
EchoJay1@reddit
Werritin instead of worrying.
Mediocre_Profile5576@reddit
“Away to” meaning “about to” is purely an east of Scotland (possibly even only a Tayside thing) and not a normal term of phrase.
cheeseismyname@reddit
I once worked with a girl from Grimsby, that scratched her head and said she had dicks in her hair, we were a little shocked until we realized she meant nits
lilphoenixgirl95@reddit
Lol my mum used to say this. From Doncaster/Lincoln primarily
Purple-Hamster499@reddit
Newcastle. Most of the UK says Chav, but we say Charva. Hungry is Clamming, a baby or young kid could be called Bairn. Packed lunch is Bait, Beautiful girl could be Bonny Lass. Mud - Clarts. Idiot- Doylem. Old man-Gadgie. Someone who is a bit mental- Radgie. An old word used similar to honey or darling as a term of endearment when talking to a woman or girl is Hinny. Alreet hinny, how's ya fatha?
AussieHxC@reddit
What ? No. If you've got the clarts you've got the shits. Or you might be clarting about i.e. fucking about instead of getting ready.
Just means guy, not necessarily old.
You've somehow missed out:
And how could you have forgotten the greatest word ever, 'Canny'.
Purple-Hamster499@reddit
Yep your right with the Clarts and Gadgie, and the ones for toilet and sweets. The Marra one seems more Makem to me. I would say Mate is the Geordie version. Can't believe I left our Canny, I say it quite a bit.
ZeroZer0_@reddit
Most of that comes from Romany, Chavy - boy Charva - shag Gadjie/gadjo/gorja - non Romany radgie - strange person or weirdo.
Pleasant_Tackle_2752@reddit
Radge is said across Scotland for being mental and then up in the Highlands Gudge/gadgie for person is also said, love to know exactly where they're all from
ZeroZer0_@reddit
Romani people, if you look it up there’s lots of words we’ve adopted
Pleasant_Tackle_2752@reddit
Totally interesting that in Newcastle and further North the words became so ubiquitous
infinit100@reddit
London has a load of Romani words too. Mush (generally I’ve heard this to get someone’s attention “Oi Mush”), kushti (good), wonga (money), nark (a grass)
ZeroZer0_@reddit
Yeah it’s like down in Southampton/portsmouth Mush which means man was taken by the dockers and is very common. Love linguistic history find it so interesting
NecroVelcro@reddit
"Mush" is fairly common (or at least was) in south Wales, too: particularly around Swansea.
Fingers_9@reddit
It's a real Swansea word for me.
Gelkoid@reddit
Radge is an East Coast thing.
Own-Lecture251@reddit
In Edinburgh we used bairn, gadgie but it meant any age male although usually a boy, radge to mean daft or mental. You could be a radge or you could go radge- the last one meaning angry or mental.
09philj@reddit
Also spell for splinter
Own-Lecture251@reddit
Spail in Edinburgh.
AussieHxC@reddit
Spelk
09philj@reddit
Autocorrect hates slang :(
Effective_Guitar_206@reddit
A lot of them are from Scotland.
Gullflyinghigh@reddit
I'm not getting into the bread roll thing as it's a conversational grenade that's liable to explode widely BUT from my spot on the south coast it's just 'fizzy drinks' rather than 'pop'. I always assumed that was just a northern thing.
KlutzyMcKlutzface@reddit
I thought the sauce that comes with a 'salt and sauce fish and chips' in Edinburgh (where I moved to as an international student) was a UK or at least Scotland wide thing.
Fo11owthewhiterabbit@reddit
“Got wrong” meaning to be told off. Didn’t realise it was a Wearside colloquialism until I moved to London 17 years ago.
DevilsAdvocate1662@reddit
My wife's family call cordial "Let Down" I've never heard anyone else ever call it that
Clean-Noise8197@reddit
'On the drag' meaning a bit late
roboplegicwrongcock@reddit
From rural mid Hampshire, lived in Reading for 12 years, now just outside Swansea.
Hampshire - Nammet = Lunch Reading - Cheeselog = Woodlouse Swansea - Tamping = Angry
Itchy-Gur2043@reddit
I've always been kind of aware when its localised. Like I grew up calling a wasp a jasper and a woodlouse a chiggypig but I knew they weren't the real words. Kind of pissed me off when I moved to Leeds and people would speak in riddles - 'you're working 8 while 5', 'do you want that in a bread cake?', 'go down the ginnel' etc
Material-Bee-907@reddit
Getting the messages = NE for shopping for groceries
jonathing@reddit
Docky being lunch eaten while at work and pack up being what you eat for your docky. Apparently this isn't a thing outside of the fens.
Active_Definition_57@reddit
I'm from Hertfordshire, but work in Peterborough. Soon after starting, I discovered many of my colleagues call what I know as a "packed lunch" a "pack up".
peahair@reddit
Ay it.
christinesangel100@reddit
I just call them fizzy drinks
kaanbha@reddit
"Slippery Fish" - recently found out this was a Sussex/Brighton thing that has spanned generations.
For those who don't know - this is what we call office style 'plastic wallets' (for paper).
raffmeup@reddit
Poly wallets?
kaanbha@reddit
Yes!
Evening-Bank9702@reddit
I always thought muffin for bread roll was normal, asked some mates if they wanted a chip muffin and they were expecting chocolate chip cake lol
hogvol@reddit
A spelk, I was in my 30s when I got a confused look from someone who didn't know what I was saying.
su_arc@reddit
Learned in uni that “taffled” meaning “tangled up” is a hull/northern thing when my southern housemates had no idea what I meant
Windle_Poons456@reddit
Doyle / Doil as an insult - Teesside
Adam-West@reddit
I went through the opposite. Before the Arctic monkeys did their song nobody outside Nottingham/Sheffield area seemed to know what Mardy meant.
Disastrous_Expert_62@reddit
In Swansea/Wales we call football/rugby boots togs I did my apprenticeship in the West midlands was surprised none of the English lads new what a tog was
PianoMiddle346@reddit
Snap for food. Nobody says soda, everyone says pop in the UK. I think 😂
muaythaiguy155@reddit
Everyone does not call fizzy drinks “pop”. In fact I’d say by far the majority don’t
Over-Language2599@reddit
Not any more but 50 years ago it was the norm.
PianoMiddle346@reddit
Nah
Xerothor@reddit
Literally 0 people I know would say pop.
PsychologicalDrone@reddit
Agreed. I’ve already put it in another comment, but I don’t hear anyone use soda or pop, only ever fizzy drink
Otocolobus_manul8@reddit
Yeah, this really took me back when I heard it in Blackpool when I was small.
catsaregreat78@reddit
Juice in a lot of Scotland. Ginger in Glasgow. Would never use pop unless explaining to non-Scot.
Gelkoid@reddit
Nobody in Scotland says 'pop'. We say juice, skoosh or ginger.
ElvishMystical@reddit
Grew up in West Yorkshire, so I've got a few:
D0wnb0at@reddit
I’m from South Yorkshire and for some reason when I ask for Hendo’s outside of Yorkshire I get given Lea and Perrins.
Anxious-Bid4874@reddit
Kruckle - Going over on your ankle.
Only from Rochdale, nowhere else.
SkankyBibble@reddit
Smoking a "Janice" is one of me fave. East Anglia
ThginkAccbeR@reddit
Why does no one remember Northern Ireland and our great craic?!?!!??
stealthykins@reddit
Brassic to mean cold (not skint). A colleague in London took the right piss out of me for it, and was adamant I’d made it up.
__Severus__Snape__@reddit
There's a perk in the game Dead by Daylight caller No Mither and hearing American gamers mispronounce it really bugs my husband 😆
68_namfloW@reddit
Batch for what you call a cob.
Xerothor@reddit
I feel that this is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the kind of bread you mean. I wouldn't say either of those.
ApprehensiveYam9631@reddit
Regarding “pop”, in Ayrshire where I grew up, it was often referred to as “skoosh”. Why, you ask? Listen when opening the lid!
LegoVRS@reddit
Descrbing something little as "Larl" (Cumbrian).
People looked at me like I was simple. Lol.
Bevwilliams@reddit
Moider- chat - North wales (Bangor)
PsychologicalDrone@reddit
My Scottish mum used to chastise us by saying “I’ll scud yer lugs!”… turns out no one in the south has herd this term before, and caused child me to get some funny looks at school when repeating the phrase
Mischeese@reddit
My Nan was born in Scotland but the family moved to London when she was a baby. So she’d shout that in a cockney accent LOL!
KungFuDazza@reddit
Does someone have to post this every week?
AskUK-ModTeam@reddit
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Aromatic-Editor-8712@reddit (OP)
I'm new to this subreddit, so I apologise if this is quite commonly asked, I didn't realise.
UltraFaroutdude@reddit
Dutt - It's what we call beanie hats here
OverlyAdorable@reddit
Crib time as in lunch break seems to be one that I thought was more well-known and widespread. I hear it quite a but in a few parts of Cornwall but I went to uni and someone said they're hungry, I replied it'll be crib time in a little bit, and everyone looked at me like I'd grown a second head. Someone asked why I'd be going bed in the middle of the day. Even the lecturer (mid to late 50s) had never heard it
pennblogh@reddit
Crib for me, (Luxulyan) for SIL from Redruth it’s Croust.
OverlyAdorable@reddit
I've heard crib in Par and some parts of St Austell and Fowey
jenzfin@reddit
I thought oining (annoying, pestering, nagging) was used everywhere but apparently it's just this small area of Lancashire
alstaagram@reddit
Spelk - North East slang for a splinter I.e ah man av got a spelk in me finger from that fence
hadawayandshite@reddit
Bairn- one of my favourite words (just such warm associations)- talking to a southerner and they thought I had a barn
Ohnoyespleasethanks@reddit
Comes from Old Norse too
hadawayandshite@reddit
Not quite, it’s old English
Long before the Vikings arrived, the Anglo-Saxons were already using the word bearn (meaning child or offspring)
BUT when the Vikings were up here they meant it continued being used (as they used similar word) whilst those down south without Vikings drifted towards child
Alcation@reddit
Baffies for slippers in Fife
Wisbey5345@reddit
I thought me maid was used in Cornwall as well but was surprised when I called someone that in Cornwall and they just couldn't get there head around it because they weren't a maid and didn't work for me
Dedward5@reddit
Ok bird
Ok-Airline-8420@reddit
'Maid' is very Devon, but if you don't have a Devon accent when you say it then people will probably not understand you as it sounds weird in the wrong one.
boddle88@reddit
Pop is Cumbria as well and my wife says cobs and she is from derby
user-74656@reddit
My wife grew up nine miles from where I did, but had never heard of the wood that you collect for Guy Fawkes Night being 'bommy wood.'
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