Need a little help with your language please

[giantangryrooster]

I'm Scandinavian, I try my best with your language, but am still bewildered about livingrooms/dens, toilets/loos etc .

But can any of you enlighten me on two words?

Where I'm from we call it summer house, what do you call it... Cottage, holiday home, second home and what is the difference?

Secondly wood/forrest, is a wood smaller? How small, then?
Do you call it wood or woods?

Just confused can you help, please.

[Bananabixfloof]

I scranned a chip barm in the ginnel and left the door on the snick

Round my way that would be you had a chip butty downt yard and went yam and left the dooer on the sneck

And for my area, that's
I et a chip butty downt ginnel, then a went ome and left door ont snick.

[wowfudge]

The word barm has got me thinking: maybe the OP would like to know about the many words for a bread roll? A barm or barmcake is a large, flattish, soft white bread roll. If you are in the north west of England. I cannot speak for other areas.

[Destroyer]

The word barm has got me thinking: maybe the OP would like to know about the many words for a bread roll? A barm or barmcake is a large, flattish, soft white bread roll. If you are in the north west of England. I cannot speak for other areas.

You mean a cob (here we go...)

[wowfudge]

Aren't cobs smaller - if you're in the East Midlands?

[Pelleas]

The bread roll you describe was a 'bap' where I grew up down south.

Where I live now in Yorkshire it's often called a 'tea cake' which confused me when I first came up here, because I thought of a tea cake as being a little thing made of chocolate and marshmallow (asked on a butty run at work if I wanted my bacon & egg sandwich on 'a tea cake' )

[derxa]

It's a 'morning roll' here. Barm makes me shiver.

[Scoobygang7]

@pealleas teacake is also a currant teacake that is usually toasted and covered in butter :)

[Pelleas]

Scoobygang7 Ordering a 'tea cake' in a cafe could amount to a lottery!

[FreezerBird]

As someone mentioned earler, technically a forest is an area where hunting rights are reserved by the crown.

There might be no trees! Eg the Forest of Dartmoor.

[Scoobygang7]

I was helping out my ex in laws in their cafe shouted back asking for a bacon t-cake. Poor chap very nearly got a currant one with his bacon.

[giantangryrooster]

Our buns are called 'bolle', which incidently can r the same as having sex .

[giantangryrooster]

Can be

[Pelleas]

Our buns are called 'bolle', which incidently can r the same as having sex

Oh my goodness! Now that could lead to very awkward moments if you asked someone for something to eat and they thought you were propositioning them!

Having said that, the term 'baps' (bread rolls in South West England) can be a slang term for breasts! 'Can I see your baps?' said to a woman behind the bakery counter might be open to double-entendre.

[borntobequiet]

Not RTFT but has coppice been mentioned? Like a copse but where the trees are periodically cut back for various reasons. When I’m out on a walk I like to identify old coppices.

[sawollya]

This is another tangent but in irish, the word for wood is coill and so the place collingwood sounds like Wood Wood to me. How do Irish words leak in to British place names? Or is that a coincidence?

[sawollya]

Coppices sound nice!

I want to be able to use that word out loud soon.

[iVampire]

On a rude food note: buns can be bums, baps can be tits, and faggots is a word that really does not travel internationally

(I now fancy a stottie for lunch, as I haven’t had one in years!)

[ElectricTonight]

If I had another home I went to say in another country for a holiday I'd say holiday home.

The woods - a large area full of trees, small rivers. A forest to me would be huge like the Amazon rain forest.

[iVampire]

Isn’t the Amazon rainforest a jungle?

[ElectricTonight]

Oh I call the room with the tv, sofa ;) , coffee table and so on "the front room". I'm from England- London.

[ElectricTonight]

@iVampire Yeah I suppose it's both!

[Weedsnseeds1]

I'm from the bap zone of the country, but I have encountered cobs (small, crusty roll in some parts, but a round crusty loaf here), oven bottoms ( baked and flipped over, so flat both sides), barm cakes ( barm is an old word for yeast), rowies aka butteries, bread cakes and so on.
A tea cake can also be something like barm back, where the fruit is soaked in tea.
Also, see coffee cake, which doesn't necessarily mean it's coffee flavoured, although it can be, which is a loaf shaped cake, to be served in slices with coffee.

[Weedsnseeds1]

Barm brack - damn you, autocorrect!

[Weedsnseeds1]

Just remembered another flat, soft, bread roll - the blaa. Particularly associated with Waterford

[iVampire]

Isn’t the sea fog a haar?

One of the very rare double ‘a’ words (the only other I can think of being aardvark)