DIFFERENT WORDS WE USE ....FOR THE SAME THINGS!

[sophia36]

My best friend is Irish. It always makes me giggle when she says 'come away here to me now' Talk about a mixed message!
She also says 'wind your neck in'

[Trouble]

im cumbrian...total different language up here

as garn yam....i'm going home
ol lad....dad
ol lass ...mam
lugs...ears
galoshers....school pumps/plimsoles
lob/scop...throw
dookers ....swimming trunks
bait...packed lunch
yan...one
divent...dont
awey...come with me
tea cakes...bread rolls
chuddy ...chewing gum
any road...anyway
clout...hit
dike...hedge
effert...thing
bad fettle...feeling ill
gammy....rotten
gizzasec...give me a minute
jameater...someone from whitehaven
lamp...hit someone
marra...friend
y'arlrette marra...how are you my friend
telt...told
vanya..nearly
yatter...talk
over yonder...over there

no wonder people think we are wierdos up here ....

you must live near me

[Toothfairy]

I am a southerner and apparently a posh one at that

I say sitting room for lounge according to my mother lounges are in airports.
Barth not bath
Parth not path
My children say they were sat watching tv, not sitting drives my mother mad

We eat lunch and dinner not dinner and tea. Although considering we left London 20 years ago I have picked up quite a few northern expressions, like paddy for tantrum and dodie for dummy

The same here
We also say settee not sofa

Our meals go like this....
Breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and then supper (although we never eat them all in one day lol).

[cherry]

Daps for plimsolls and pikelets for crumpets

My mums always said pikelets and when I moved to Oxfordshire from Bristol no one knew what I was talking about

[ajs]

Daps for plimsolls and pikelets for crumpets

My mums always said pikelets and when I moved to Oxfordshire from Bristol no one knew what I was talking about

Darn sarf pikelets are very thin crumpets, not that i've seen them for years but i know we used to have them for saturday afternoon tea at my grnadmother's.

I do say wind your neck in and other northern sayings but i think that's because i've lived in the north east now the midlands for the last 20 years

[loocyloo]

Darn sarf pikelets are very thin crumpets, not that i've seen them for years but i know we used to have them for saturday afternoon tea at my grnadmother's.

I do say wind your neck in and other northern sayings but i think that's because i've lived in the north east now the midlands for the last 20 years

in australia pikelets are small thick pancakes

hmmm, i love them, haven't made any for a few years now ... might have to!

[WibbleWobble]

in our house we eat bunnies....these are what might be called finger roles.

Imagine my mirth when as a student i was asked to get a "bunny" for a lady to put between her legs after she had give birth.....Bunnies here are sanitary towels!!!!

[PixiePetal]

i forgot, we have 'snickets' here - alleyways between buildings.

we have twittens just googles it and it is an old Sussex word so that's spot on for me

old locals at the pub eat 'chips' - crisps

[dette]

you must live near me

so at least one person here will understand me

[angeldelight]

Bobowla is a word we use ......it's for a big brown butterfly,moth

around the Wrekin ...... if your on a journey and go the long way round,or tell a long story ... You say oh take me round the Wrekin meaning it could have been shorter.

Some words that people used to say when my mom was little were ....

Stop mithering me ......stop asking things

Donnies ....hands

Babby....baby

Oh and some girls used to be called yank ..... One yank and their knickers were down ....a word used for easy woman

Angel xxx

[SandCastles]

So funny - here is my contribution

tenfoot - alley way
cockle over - trip over
fell my length - fell right over

[JCrakers]

I always run a bath and dh draws one

The walkway between houses, I call a channel or a jitty, dh calls it a jennel

If someone is being a bit of a baby then the are being mardy

A friend of mine from a different part of Derbyshire says someone is scrating if they are crying.

[Trouble]

so at least one person here will understand me

completely marra xxx

[stardust]

These are ones I can think of that people I know use.
Don yer coat- Put on your coat
Kacks- Trousers
Daps- plimsoles
Paddy- Tantrum
Pop- All things fizzy (Picked this up from children i used to babysit from Birmingham- I used to say coke, lemonade ect)
Stop Yacking- Stop chatting
Old Man- Ive known this be used for Other Half or Dad
Ball and chain- The wife
Her Indoors- Wife
Gert- Not sure what it means but its normally followed by Lush.
Lush- lovely
Put the box on/ whats on the box - Put the tv on/ whats on tv
Flicker- Remote
Spring a leak/ Burst a seal/ Break a seal- Go for a wee
Get on- go away.
mucker- term of endearment
Whats eating you?- Whats up
Eat your grub- Eat your food.
Banger- sausage
Breakki- Breakfast
Painters in - time of the month
Bot/botty- bottom
faffy/flower/foof/lady garden/bottom bits/tupance - I just say girl bits
Willy/wiggler/tinkle/little dude/wee man/wobbly bit/winky woo- I just say boy bits
Baps/Wams/Mellon/Bazooka/Boobies/Boobs/Fried eggs (What my friend calls hers)- Breasts
Trackie- Track suit
Boogers/ Boogies/ Snotty Lots- runny nose
Tats- Potatoes
ciggie- cigerette
Dode/Deede/NumNum/Dot/LaLa/Dum Dum/Soother/Passy/passifier- I just say mummy
Snuggy/Blanket/Taggie/Cuddly/NooNoo- Blanket/Comforter
Naps/Nighnight/sleepie/Beddiebys/Dream Time- Sleep
Skatty- forgetful

Terms of endearment:
Chicky
Chickadee
Hunny
Hun
Hunni Bunny
Bab
Babe
Beauts
Me Loverly
Sweets
Missy

Weird things I say or people I know say:
you stay where yer at, i'll come where yer to- compliments of series of unfortunate events
look like your chewing a wasp- not looking happy
Knee high to a grass hopper.
Its always in the last place you look?- who continues looking when they've found something- I may do this one day and see what mums reaction is

For me its breakfast, Dinner and Tea although mindee's parents all say Lunch and Dinner.

My sisters sayings (some I don't understand)
Bare- apparently it means bad/fit/good depending on context- she normally says it as 'well bare boys' so i guess it well fit boys?
Boom and there it is- when she remembers something hours after thinking about it, but never says what it is.
Pure truth/True story- Truth
Bounce- Leave

There's so many variations. I personally dont do baby talk but my parents do and they talk to me like it so i spend ages trying to work out what they are on about.

[stardust]

''Dode/Deede/NumNum/Dot/LaLa/Dum Dum/Soother/Passy/passifier- I just say mummy''

Supposed to say dummy

My sister also says Bang you/it out- knock it out/ throw it away.