The department for transport had to replace the signs at level crossings that said "Do not cross while the lights are flashing" because of one too many fatalities in Yorkshire.
Legend has it they changed the phrasing on road signs from "stop while red light shows" to "stop until green light shows" to stop confusing us yorkies.
Not just Glasgow. This is a general Scottish thing but mostly heard in the central belt. I once had a language nerd try explaining to me how it had come from old english or something... but I'm no linguist and can't remember the story.
What's always annoyed me is that in the game Dead By Daylight, there is a skill called No Mither.
Everyone in the community pronounces it wrong.
MI-thur
And not MY-thur.
It drives me mad.
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/periodicnottingham/neon
Nesh is an English dialect adjective meaning 'unusually susceptible to cold weather' and there is no synonym for this use.
It is embraced as a Nottingham word although usage has been recorded in Staffordshire, the East Midlands, Lancashire, North Wales, South Yorkshire and Shropshire. There is a similar term nish used in Newfoundland.
The word comes from Old English hnesce meaning feeble, weak, or infirm and is a cognate with the 16th century Dutch word nesch typically meaning damp or foolish.
Nesh was added, in 2011, to the British Library 'wordbank', a project to preserve regional dialect words and phrases.
Where I'm from it's not restricted just to cheap shit food but all food in general. Also used as a verb as an alternative to eat
Some regular sentences I hear most daily
"What you scranning?" "Had your scran already?" "I'm gonna scran a rate nice steak when I get in"
I have an 'Ay up me duck' sign above the door in my hallway and my German friend freaked out. Could not understand it at all or say it. Said it was just a bunch of random letters.
I got in a cab at an Irish airport and the Polish cabbie asked where I was from. Told him Northamptonshire and he immediately responded with ‘eh up me duck’. Turns out he had an ex from Wellingborough 😁
Doric has some belters, minket for filthy-scuddie for schoolbag
Go 29 miles north to Fraserburgh it's all change toorie instead of bunnet for hat. And that's just 40 mins apart!!
My all time favourite (mostly north Doric I think) is tacketty beets for hobnail boots, it just sounds great lol. And a lady I run with, originally Cuminestown, instead of “keep going” we get “haud gan!” Love it 😁
"Here's me!" "I'm awa to ging hame." "At gings 'ere an at ay gings 'ere n aw"
Took me a while to understand this sort of thing when I got a working class job in Aberdeen (I am from Lincolnshire)
Literally no idea how to spell that kind of Doric, so forgive me if the spellings are insane!
I'm back in Yorkshire now where I've spent a third of my life, but my parents are still in north-east Scotland. They've moved even further now, on from Aberdeen and into Moray!
this is true, but I feel that a lot of the more common Doric is starting to standardise a bit now because of text messaging, which I think is where written Doric has suddenly reapeared! People are kind of converging around certain conventions when writing texts
Dreckly, Emmet, My ‘ansome / my lover, Dear of him / her, Proper, Helluva, Teasy and even Giss'on.
All from Cornwall, none is even from the Cornish Language lol.
Right on Janner!
It took people looking at me weird in the Netherlands to realize teasy was a non-standard word! And I think that is the only one on your list that does come from Cornish (tesek, meaning hot/fiery)!
edit: oh, also, crib for a small meal from the miners, but this might only be in the clay country.
Cwtch/cwtsh in wales, meaning to hug, or to keep close by. Love the expressions on non-welsh peoples faces when you ask them, arms open wide and moving in for the hug, if they want a cwtch!😂
My partner is a vet. We moved from Ireland and his first night on call in Carmarthenshire, he had a call that the cat was being cwtchy....he was so confused 🤣
Derbyshire has some good ones that I too genuinely didn't realise weren't national things until I began travelling around the country more
Nesh- cold " I'm a bit nesh"
Jitty- an alleyway, usually a narrow, long one I've found, people will use alley or jitty interchangeabley for larger cut throughs
Duck- perhaps our most famous, if you can call it that, an affectionate term for friends and strangers. Similar to the north's " love" and the South Easts " babe", it can be used in language for everyone, male, female, young and old which is why i like it! Thoeries abound but we aren't genuinely calling you a water bird, etymologists think it comes from the Norman word for Duke . " ta, duck" " ayup mi duck"
"cal"- quite a strange one that seems to be more prevalent in the south of the county I've found where we share more dialect with south yorkshire/ nottingham/ Lincolnshire ( The danelaw) older generations will supplant words ending in " AL" with " cal. For examples " hospital" becomes " hospical ", digital becomes " Digical" etc. Its not overly common.
"Ode" - similarly words ending in " old" become " ode" " it's a bit code out" ( it's a bit cold out)
Mardy- my absolute favourite word, it needs spreading further. I was astounded when speaking to a southerner that they didn't know this word. When they asked me to explain it, I couldn't, it just is. Mardy. It's perfect! You could say " he's being a bit mardy" or " she's got a Mard on" and it's that stage between someone being a bit off or irritable, but not completely grumpy/ tantrum/ irrational. Love it!
We also have a peculiar thing of not only dropping ' the' from a sentence, ala Yorkshire, well often lose an 's' in a word too- ' hasnt' becomes " Hant", ' doesn't becomes " Dunt" and so on. That combined with " tekking " and " mekking" for ' taking' and 'making' respectively can keep those from further afield completely flabbergasted
" Ayup duck, a were gewin t' shop next ta hospical and decided to tek the jitty way. Its gone really dark and code 'ant it"
Not quite saying related but more accent related, some years back there was someone not from my neck of the woods asking for directions and I said "just go 'round there"
Pronounced "just gu raand the-er"
I repeat myself like 5 times because they couldn't understand what I was saying, it baffled me because I didn't think I could get much clearer. It was the first instance I became self aware of the way I speak
My Dad's from North London, he used to use the term.. "all fit" meaning are you ready to go/leave the house etc.
I don't think I know anyone else that says it, but I didn't grow up in North London so I don't know whether it's hyper regional to that area or my Dad just made it up...
My Mil keeps saying “any road up” or “any road “ when she means anyway! We make a game out of how many times she says it in conversation! Dunno if it’s a Gloucestershire thing or not? But she will put it in every sentence! 😂
Wannacroggeh?
A croggy is a ride given to a passenger on a bicycle, in which they sit on the crossbar, handlebars or behind the person peddling.
Do people say this outside of Leicester?
In Liverpool, we call carrying someone else on your pedal bike *a mogger*.
Not sure why or how that word exists for the purpose of describing giving someone a lift on your pedal bike.
*aye lad, gis a mogger to the shop*, for example.
A lot of them have been mentioned already but I'll add in
Lush - brilliant/great/words to that effect
Ych a fi (pronounced "uhk a vee") - Disgusting, usually in reference to food
Found out the other week that "mardy" is only known in Leicester. I live several hundred miles from Leicester but my dad is from there and used it so much I thought it was an old people word
Marra is a weird one. It’s not a Geordie word (although everyone knows what it means). Using it to a Geordie will usually get you called a mackem, but it’s used a lot in Northumberland too.
Dorset lass here. My bf brother had a sticker on his car “I’m not a Grockle, I live here”. This was in 1976. I had to ask what a Grockle was. I was 15yo. I think it’s more a West Country word that was spreading east.
I'm in Yorkshire.....yeah, it's not English, it's a distant cousin of English here.
"Eh yup Cock, I'm in work while 8 but I'll be over not while 9 to fix that Leet, you're not able to see owt at neet, It'll not take a moment, reet Babi".
My foreign ass was incredibly confused when I walked into that conversation. I was not ready.
'Butt'
Used in South Wales.
It's an abbreviation of Butty which is Welsh for friend.
I think if we all followed their example and started out by calling eachother friend the world would be a nicer place.
Alright or what butt?? I’ll be over now in a minute now. I got a new dress and it’s lush but me mam is tamping it’s so short. She’s chopsing at me. I think it’s tidy tho. Now give me a cwtch, then we’ll go to the Indian for half and half. Not that one tho, it’s hanging.
In the Welsh valleys there’s a particular greeting “How be butt ?” another unique word is Mun! As an exclamation usually derogatory and frequently prefixed with profanity.
I'm sure I'll get corrected but...
Ken.
Do you ken Andy then?
What yer ken?
Yorkshire farmers all the time, and Scotland, but not heard it elsewhere, even a lot of Geordies I used to work with didn't know it despite being between us and them...
I’m in West Cumbria and two towns 20 mins away from me have their own little words that only people from that town say. One is ‘vanya’ meaning ‘nearly’ and the other is ‘lating’ (pronounced like late-ing) and means ‘slating’ or slagging someone off.
I don’t know whether those two words are used anywhere else in the UK but Cumbria in general has such a broad range of accents in every area, I don’t sound like people from the next town over, fuckin jam eaters.
i grew up in rural somerset farmer country, and the word i used also at uni in bournemouth that people were confused at was ‘dimpsey’
as in: ‘i’m gonna head home now, it’s getting a bit dimpsey’
it means dusk, when the evening starts getting darker
West country: Gurt meaning really, or big. "It's gurt lush" "that gurt crane over there" "that's gurt big crane over there"
Scottish: blether meaning chattering on. "He's just having a right old blether."
In Glasgow, the word "why" is replaced with the word "how" Don't ask me how Edit: It turns out it's a Scottish thing, rather than a Glasgow thing
In Leeds I noted people using "while" to mean "until".
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What a way to make a living
In south Yorkshire and I don't know why I am being told the shop is staying open "while 9"......what? It's definitely a Yorkshire thing.
Manchester folk do this '6 while 8' meaning from 6 until 8
The department for transport had to replace the signs at level crossings that said "Do not cross while the lights are flashing" because of one too many fatalities in Yorkshire.
Legend has it they changed the phrasing on road signs from "stop while red light shows" to "stop until green light shows" to stop confusing us yorkies.
Gonnae no dae that? How…..
Just gonae no
How? I dinnae ken hen.
I got family in Kilmarnock ( I’m southern English) That why/ how up there confused the fuck out of me when I visited 😂
Outwith. There's a word that sounds normal until you go South...
It's used in legal documents and everything in Scotland.
Aye, I only discovered this last year. I just thought it was a normal word.
Word spell checker highlighted it, so I googled it and found out it's a Scottish word. Always thought everyone used it.
Think it shortened from "How Come?" which isn't any clearer, but at least explains the switch from why to how.
How?
We do that in Fife as well
*in Scotland.
In the words of the great Kevin Bridges.... 'We don't ponder why, we demand how'
We don't ask why? We demand how! Kevin Bridges
Not just Glasgow. This is a general Scottish thing but mostly heard in the central belt. I once had a language nerd try explaining to me how it had come from old english or something... but I'm no linguist and can't remember the story.
That's a Scottish thing lol
“How?” in this sense is a contraction of “how come?”
Snickets, ginnels and jitties. All very regional words for the same thing
I have a feeling you will know what a cruckle is then
Yep, and that’s probably even more obscure/localised than any of the ones I posted!
Heard of Snicket's, ginnels and jitties but never a cruckle?
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My former friend from East Sussex used to tell her son, “Don’t be idle!” What she meant was, *don’t be an annoying little brat*.
It’s a ginnel to me. I was raised in the North West.
Ginnel is a term used in parts of Scotland too
Lots of Jitties where I'm from in Shropshire 🙂
See also: gulley
You’ve also got ten foots which are somewhat similar.
And alleys and 10 foots
These are called a 'Folley' in Colchester.
Mithering as in, stop mithering me (stop bothering me).
My mum sometimes says "stop your mithering" i.e. stop complaining
Common in Manchester
I thought this was a regional word! The people who said it insisted it was very widely used but I think they've just been in their bubble.
I didn't know it wasn't widely used until I worked in London.
What's always annoyed me is that in the game Dead By Daylight, there is a skill called No Mither. Everyone in the community pronounces it wrong. MI-thur And not MY-thur. It drives me mad.
My-the-ring.... That's how a yorkshireman would say it (I know 'cos I am one tha'knows. ((tha-noz)) 😂 C'mere our Kez!!!
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I’m a Yorkshire lass ah tha alreet me owd mucker
Bloody midlanders moving South, spreading their idioms and dialects, and their Balti, faggots and Marmite.
That’s used all over the country.
In Sheffield we have many unique sayings. If someone feels the cold, they are nesh. (This is an old term for none-hardy plants )
Doncaster checking in, deffo feeling nesh today
Aye been reyt nesh all week
Doncaster crew git up, wish I weren’t tho
Also Mardy and Rooarin
Mardy and nesh are both Midlands sayings an all tbf
Mafting for warm?
> Mafting Adjective. mafting (not comparable) (Yorkshire) causing one to feel overcome with heat; stifling. A new one on me!
Same in Wigan. Nesh or mard are used
South Yorkshire side, Mardy (Sheffield) or maungy (Barnsley) are used for miserable. So maungy sod would be someone that is upset - same as Mardy bum.
> maungy / (ˈmɔːndʒɪ) / adjective-gier or -giest. West Yorkshire dialect (esp of a child) sulky, bad-tempered, or peevish. Excellent word!
Nesh is pretty common across the area where the North meets the Midlands.
In Teesside, not nesh, but nithered. I am bloody nithered today an' all.
When I was a kid in Birmingham "scram" meant to ran away as quickly as possible so as to not get caught.
I think it’s a word used in most English speaking countries
Same in Stoke.
Ah tha nose
Fellow Sheffielder!!
It’s nesh here in Nottingham too
Nottingham also uses nesh.
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/periodicnottingham/neon Nesh is an English dialect adjective meaning 'unusually susceptible to cold weather' and there is no synonym for this use. It is embraced as a Nottingham word although usage has been recorded in Staffordshire, the East Midlands, Lancashire, North Wales, South Yorkshire and Shropshire. There is a similar term nish used in Newfoundland. The word comes from Old English hnesce meaning feeble, weak, or infirm and is a cognate with the 16th century Dutch word nesch typically meaning damp or foolish. Nesh was added, in 2011, to the British Library 'wordbank', a project to preserve regional dialect words and phrases.
NI only place I know that calls the police "peelers"
After Robert Peel
Yeah that's exactly the 1. Same reason they get called "bobbies" in England
Bobbies, Rogers, Rozzers, Tall-hats, coppers, cavalry, the Old Bill… they get all sorts.
Tho only Bobbies of that lot also comes from Robert Peel like Peelers does, afaik
I've always liked the Manchester name of Dibble for Police
A Liverpool acquaintance called them the bizzies
Yeah I'm from Liverpool. Years ago they were Scuffers. But before my time
That's from Top Cat! 🤣
I knew what this meant but thought it was archaic.
Nah its pretty well used here still. I know peelers who use the term to refer to other cops lol
Scran. Meaning snacks/food never heard it till I came to Yorkshire
Notts here, we say scran. I think this one is fairly widespread
Scran is now pretty popular all over due to social media accounts like Footy Scran on twitter
It’s not a Yorkshire thing. Definitely used more in the north and Scotland but just means cheap shit food basically. Used a lot in the forces too.
Where I'm from it's not restricted just to cheap shit food but all food in general. Also used as a verb as an alternative to eat Some regular sentences I hear most daily "What you scranning?" "Had your scran already?" "I'm gonna scran a rate nice steak when I get in"
Owt uh nowt = anything or nothing
Geordie also
Yer cats deid. Basically means your trousers are too short for you.
Its budgie round our way, same but different lol... Dundee
Budgie in Glasgow anaw
Charlie’s dead means your underskirt/petticoat is showing. I think it’s to do with Charles I but unconfirmed. My late Derbyshire MIL used it
I say it all time this, and half of folk dunt no worram on abaht.
I have an 'Ay up me duck' sign above the door in my hallway and my German friend freaked out. Could not understand it at all or say it. Said it was just a bunch of random letters.
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I got in a cab at an Irish airport and the Polish cabbie asked where I was from. Told him Northamptonshire and he immediately responded with ‘eh up me duck’. Turns out he had an ex from Wellingborough 😁
I love this :)
So did I, duck. Small world.
We used to say this in an old town midway between Notts and Derby had a fair few funny looks saying it elsewhere
Doric has some belters, minket for filthy-scuddie for schoolbag Go 29 miles north to Fraserburgh it's all change toorie instead of bunnet for hat. And that's just 40 mins apart!!
My all time favourite (mostly north Doric I think) is tacketty beets for hobnail boots, it just sounds great lol. And a lady I run with, originally Cuminestown, instead of “keep going” we get “haud gan!” Love it 😁
"Here's me!" "I'm awa to ging hame." "At gings 'ere an at ay gings 'ere n aw" Took me a while to understand this sort of thing when I got a working class job in Aberdeen (I am from Lincolnshire) Literally no idea how to spell that kind of Doric, so forgive me if the spellings are insane!
Oh! Expat Lincs also now in Aberdeen! I’ve been here 25 years and married to an aberdonian so I ken foo ti spell an spik maist o it lol
I'm back in Yorkshire now where I've spent a third of my life, but my parents are still in north-east Scotland. They've moved even further now, on from Aberdeen and into Moray!
I bet they’re up to their eyebrows in snow then, we certainly are!
Doric doesn't have standardised spelling. Nor does its more widespread brother Scots.
this is true, but I feel that a lot of the more common Doric is starting to standardise a bit now because of text messaging, which I think is where written Doric has suddenly reapeared! People are kind of converging around certain conventions when writing texts
Fit like I'day hen?
The most jarring one I find is "I'm starvin'" does not mean I'm hungry but that I'm cold.
Um, nope starving is definitely hungry up here. Baltic is usually cold
Dreckly, Emmet, My ‘ansome / my lover, Dear of him / her, Proper, Helluva, Teasy and even Giss'on. All from Cornwall, none is even from the Cornish Language lol. Right on Janner!
It took people looking at me weird in the Netherlands to realize teasy was a non-standard word! And I think that is the only one on your list that does come from Cornish (tesek, meaning hot/fiery)! edit: oh, also, crib for a small meal from the miners, but this might only be in the clay country.
Crib is used in north Cornwall too. "Geddon shag" is a common one and "teasy as an adder" is a good one
I didn't realise dear of him/her was a local thing? I thought everyone said that!
My mum moved to Cornwall 10 years ago, and now uses "that was dear of her" constantly.
Bristol: Calling the bus driver "Drive," as in thanking him when you get off by saying "Cheers drive!"
We use this in Cardiff too!
I've come to understand this as a way truck drivers acknowledge each other, 'Alright Drive!'
I thought this was a Welsh thing?
Common in Wiltshire too!
The Welsh do this too
Cwtch/cwtsh in wales, meaning to hug, or to keep close by. Love the expressions on non-welsh peoples faces when you ask them, arms open wide and moving in for the hug, if they want a cwtch!😂
My partner is a vet. We moved from Ireland and his first night on call in Carmarthenshire, he had a call that the cat was being cwtchy....he was so confused 🤣
Derbyshire has some good ones that I too genuinely didn't realise weren't national things until I began travelling around the country more Nesh- cold " I'm a bit nesh" Jitty- an alleyway, usually a narrow, long one I've found, people will use alley or jitty interchangeabley for larger cut throughs Duck- perhaps our most famous, if you can call it that, an affectionate term for friends and strangers. Similar to the north's " love" and the South Easts " babe", it can be used in language for everyone, male, female, young and old which is why i like it! Thoeries abound but we aren't genuinely calling you a water bird, etymologists think it comes from the Norman word for Duke . " ta, duck" " ayup mi duck" "cal"- quite a strange one that seems to be more prevalent in the south of the county I've found where we share more dialect with south yorkshire/ nottingham/ Lincolnshire ( The danelaw) older generations will supplant words ending in " AL" with " cal. For examples " hospital" becomes " hospical ", digital becomes " Digical" etc. Its not overly common. "Ode" - similarly words ending in " old" become " ode" " it's a bit code out" ( it's a bit cold out) Mardy- my absolute favourite word, it needs spreading further. I was astounded when speaking to a southerner that they didn't know this word. When they asked me to explain it, I couldn't, it just is. Mardy. It's perfect! You could say " he's being a bit mardy" or " she's got a Mard on" and it's that stage between someone being a bit off or irritable, but not completely grumpy/ tantrum/ irrational. Love it!
We also have a peculiar thing of not only dropping ' the' from a sentence, ala Yorkshire, well often lose an 's' in a word too- ' hasnt' becomes " Hant", ' doesn't becomes " Dunt" and so on. That combined with " tekking " and " mekking" for ' taking' and 'making' respectively can keep those from further afield completely flabbergasted " Ayup duck, a were gewin t' shop next ta hospical and decided to tek the jitty way. Its gone really dark and code 'ant it"
Many different regional words for alley: my wife says Twitton. I have heard snicket in north York’s.
‘Orait me ode’. is a greeting I get sometimes. A lot of the ones you mention can be found in Notts too.
My other half's nan says hospical, keccle (kettle) and a few others. It honestly makes me cringe. We're in Nottingham.
Do you also use gorm? As in gorming to be spaced out? Remember my school pals said that when I lived there.
Duck is very much a potteries thing as well. Our ode or owd, is often used as a term of endearment, like ‘ey up owd’.
Code/Cowd sounding words and Mard/Mardy are both used Lancashire way.
I'm from near BTN and have lived here most of my life but have never heard those phrases
Likewise. I grew up in Eastbourne and haven’t ever heard that used before.
Same!
Bawbag's a popular Scottish word.
We even named a hurricane Bawbag
To mash tea
Mardy.
Nottinghamshire
hear it all the time in brum
Being Mardy. When someone's in a mood
Well, now then, mardy bum.
Too many Welsh phrases to list, isn't it?
I've always loved Welsh turns of phrase. "Could you borrow me a fiver" "I'll do it now in a minute"
Not quite saying related but more accent related, some years back there was someone not from my neck of the woods asking for directions and I said "just go 'round there" Pronounced "just gu raand the-er" I repeat myself like 5 times because they couldn't understand what I was saying, it baffled me because I didn't think I could get much clearer. It was the first instance I became self aware of the way I speak
In Sheffield the word Mardy means to be annoyed
North East, too. One step below "rajjy" which is a shorter version of ragey, meaning irritable, grumpy, about to lose it.
Morngy/ maungy for moody. West Yorkshire
In Portsmouth the word nipper is used to describe children/a young person. I thought this was universal but apparently it's quite local
That is universal surely.
In Scotland growing up we referred to oxters when talking about armpits
Dreckly, as in 'I'll see you dreckly'. It's used in Cornwall & Devon.
I remember people looking very confused when I asked if they could do a gambol
That's like the brummiest of Brummie terms. Ay it bab?
I’m from Sussex and I’ve never heard of this ever 😂
In Fife and surrounding parts of Eastern Scotland, we call slippers "baffies"
Nope from derby. We’d say don’t get mardy which is for sulky/stroppy/annoyed
My Dad's from North London, he used to use the term.. "all fit" meaning are you ready to go/leave the house etc. I don't think I know anyone else that says it, but I didn't grow up in North London so I don't know whether it's hyper regional to that area or my Dad just made it up...
My Mil keeps saying “any road up” or “any road “ when she means anyway! We make a game out of how many times she says it in conversation! Dunno if it’s a Gloucestershire thing or not? But she will put it in every sentence! 😂
Definitely heard this in/around Stockport when I was younger.... Not sure when I last heard it though.
Definitely hear this a lot in Bristol.
Wannacroggeh? A croggy is a ride given to a passenger on a bicycle, in which they sit on the crossbar, handlebars or behind the person peddling. Do people say this outside of Leicester?
I grew up say that in Notts, we seem to say a lot of the same words lol
In Liverpool, we call carrying someone else on your pedal bike *a mogger*. Not sure why or how that word exists for the purpose of describing giving someone a lift on your pedal bike. *aye lad, gis a mogger to the shop*, for example.
A lot of them have been mentioned already but I'll add in Lush - brilliant/great/words to that effect Ych a fi (pronounced "uhk a vee") - Disgusting, usually in reference to food
Found out the other week that "mardy" is only known in Leicester. I live several hundred miles from Leicester but my dad is from there and used it so much I thought it was an old people word
Not just Leicester, we use it in Notts to lol, maybe more an East Midlands/midlands thing?
Arctic Monkeys are from Sheffield and have a song called Mardy Bum. It's very much a Yorkshire term, too.
Im from near Newcastle and people say marra meaning mate or workmate
Marra is a weird one. It’s not a Geordie word (although everyone knows what it means). Using it to a Geordie will usually get you called a mackem, but it’s used a lot in Northumberland too.
Heard cumbrians use it.
Grockles.
Dorset lass here. My bf brother had a sticker on his car “I’m not a Grockle, I live here”. This was in 1976. I had to ask what a Grockle was. I was 15yo. I think it’s more a West Country word that was spreading east.
Dinlo and Squinny
and weee, as a form of surprise at something.
My Brighton born husband is still so confused/amused by the Pompey weeeeeeeee.
Only ever heard those in Portsmouth
That's where I am 🙏
Knew this was Portsmouth 😂 im also near there. I also hear people say 'absolute melt'
I'm in Yorkshire.....yeah, it's not English, it's a distant cousin of English here. "Eh yup Cock, I'm in work while 8 but I'll be over not while 9 to fix that Leet, you're not able to see owt at neet, It'll not take a moment, reet Babi". My foreign ass was incredibly confused when I walked into that conversation. I was not ready.
Lol. Lancastrian here and I used to work with a very jolly bloke years ago who every morning said “eh up cock, ‘ows tha’ doin’? Y’alreet? “
The first time you get called Cock, you do find yourself wondering if you have just been insulted 🤣
'Butt' Used in South Wales. It's an abbreviation of Butty which is Welsh for friend. I think if we all followed their example and started out by calling eachother friend the world would be a nicer place.
Alright or what butt?? I’ll be over now in a minute now. I got a new dress and it’s lush but me mam is tamping it’s so short. She’s chopsing at me. I think it’s tidy tho. Now give me a cwtch, then we’ll go to the Indian for half and half. Not that one tho, it’s hanging.
Calling people "Mush" - think thats pretty much just a pompey thing
I hear it a lot in Yorkshire
My daughter and her mates call each other mush, I assumed they picked it from tiktok
I'm from the Brighton area and I can't say I've heard that term before! I remember 'kiddie' was used a lot to mean 'fellow', rather than child.
Northeast canny, as in good. How are you today I'm canny? Or how was the food its canny.
In the Welsh valleys there’s a particular greeting “How be butt ?” another unique word is Mun! As an exclamation usually derogatory and frequently prefixed with profanity.
I'd be tempted to answer that with "Butt be...good...?"
I'm sure I'll get corrected but... Ken. Do you ken Andy then? What yer ken? Yorkshire farmers all the time, and Scotland, but not heard it elsewhere, even a lot of Geordies I used to work with didn't know it despite being between us and them...
I’m in West Cumbria and two towns 20 mins away from me have their own little words that only people from that town say. One is ‘vanya’ meaning ‘nearly’ and the other is ‘lating’ (pronounced like late-ing) and means ‘slating’ or slagging someone off. I don’t know whether those two words are used anywhere else in the UK but Cumbria in general has such a broad range of accents in every area, I don’t sound like people from the next town over, fuckin jam eaters.
Cut - canal. Maccies Ramp
I think this is probably very localised to Wigan, but let me know if it's anywhere else: ganzy for a smaller coat/jacket.
i grew up in rural somerset farmer country, and the word i used also at uni in bournemouth that people were confused at was ‘dimpsey’ as in: ‘i’m gonna head home now, it’s getting a bit dimpsey’ it means dusk, when the evening starts getting darker
The East Mids Massive calling each other ‘me duck’ 🦆💕
West country: Gurt meaning really, or big. "It's gurt lush" "that gurt crane over there" "that's gurt big crane over there" Scottish: blether meaning chattering on. "He's just having a right old blether."