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

**angeldelight** · 08-09-2012, 07:55 AM

So what words do you use that you know others say different.

For example .......

Pictures ......movies ........cinema

Knickers .......pants

Tomato sauce .......ketchup

Lounge ........living room

To be made redundant .........laid off

Jacket potato ..........baked potato

Jumper ............ Sweater

Bottom .......bum .........ass ...........butt .........rear end

Toilet .......... Loo ......... Bog

I'm sure you can think of more ..... Do you use slang words?

Angel xxxx

**loocyloo** · 08-09-2012, 08:28 AM

packed lunch - pack up

fairy cakes - buns

duvet - doona ( picked this one up in Oz and its stuck! )

pick up truck - ute

funnily enough my sil and i were talking about this only week, but in a 'regional' difference way!

**The Juggler** · 08-09-2012, 08:36 AM

the ones people laugh at me for are: (I hail from Cardiff)

bathers (swimsuits)
daps (plimsolls)

sure there are more ....I'll be back.

**angeldelight** · 08-09-2012, 08:55 AM

Originally Posted by The Juggler

the ones people laugh at me for are: (I hail from Cardiff)

bathers (swimsuits)
daps (plimsolls)

sure there are more ....I'll be back.

Daps

Never heard of that

Angel xx

**Monkey26** · 08-09-2012, 09:04 AM

I use doona for duvet as well, and jandels for flip flops. Both picked up from my New Zealand born best friend!! Xx

**Maza** · 08-09-2012, 09:05 AM

Lunch - dinner
Tea - dinner
maiden - clothes horse
bowl - dish
dish cloth - tea towl

**FussyElmo** · 08-09-2012, 09:14 AM

plimsols are pumps here.

Baps can be rolls, buns, cobs.

But then again Im a Stokie so yes lots of slang her. We dunner talk posh here

**nannysue** · 08-09-2012, 09:35 AM

Originally Posted by angeldelight

Daps

Never heard of that

Angel xx

We calls them daps here too

**singingcactus** · 08-09-2012, 10:15 AM

Don't know, but I often have my husband of almost 20 years stare at me and tell me he has no idea what I am saying! I was a scale E brat which pretty much messes up my dialect and accent so depending on where I am and who I am talking to my words will change without me even being aware of it. I now have 3 scale E brats of my own, so they will sound like they speak another language half the time too haha.

Can't think of any specific words right now though other than scaffy. Taken me years and years and years to start to habitually call them bin men.

**The Juggler** · 08-09-2012, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by nannysue

We calls them daps here too

where are you nannysue?

**angeldelight** · 08-09-2012, 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by loocyloo

packed lunch - pack up

fairy cakes - buns

duvet - doona ( picked this one up in Oz and its stuck! )

pick up truck - ute

funnily enough my sil and i were talking about this only week, but in a 'regional' difference way!

Doona

Xxx

**SandCastles** · 09-09-2012, 07:39 PM

So funny - here is my contribution

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

**JCrakers** · 09-09-2012, 08:11 PM

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.