Regional words that you thought everyone used.

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A friend mentioned her winterdyke to me recently and was amazed that I had no idea what it was. It seems that it's what I'd call a clothes horse or airer. I'm from Glasgow and she's from Ayrshire. She said that she thought everyone called it that.

Are there any words that you use and assumed that everyone knew but it turns out that they don't?

Not liking fizzy drinks, I’d be sad getting a can of pop instead of non sparkling fruit juice, if offered a “juice”. Vimto/Ribena would be offered as cordial.

R Muh's gone to Asdawl= our mother's gone to Asda.

(Bristolian).

I love this thread, so many great regional differences in language.

Guess where I was from originally.

I went for a walk in the dene and plodged in the burn. Then I got hacky when I sat on my honkers and knew I’d get wrong when I got home.
I had to brush the tats out my hair as it was blowing a gale !

@TheVeryHungryTortoise

Everyone in our extended family calls woodlice "cheesy bugs", we're west Surrey. I wouldn't call it regional difference but I did think it was a more widespread term than it appears to be!

They’re cheeselogs where I grew up (near Reading)

@bettsbattenburg I think "Ar Bay a Brummie" means I'm not a Brummie I could be wrong though.

I'm a southerner & have honestly only hear dof mardy from the whole 10 pages of replies. I think because it was in an Arctic Monkeys song.

Actually astounded that there's all these unknown (to me) words out there.

Lincolnshire way we said mardy bum, also dicks instead of nits, no idea where that came from! A ganzy is a cardi or jumper and someone was frumpy they were nunty.

Had never heard of a "maiden" until I moved to the NW, had always called it a clothes horse. In much the same vein, my NW colleagues still laugh when I say a bap instead of barm (or barm cake)

Scullery - kitchen

Scullery is standard English but outmoded, traditionally the scullery was where you washed the dishes. But every stately home in England still has a scullery.

Forgot about blarting (crying) and nesh (prone to the cold) here too in Staffordshire

Reminds me of when I first moved to Dublin and someone said "the yolk's in the the press" - absolutely no idea what they were saying!

The egg is in the paper???

Turns out the 'yolk' is whatever the thing you're looking for is, and the 'press' is the cupboard.

I’ve lived away from the NE for a long time. The hardest phrases to stop using were ‘get wrong’ and ‘canny’. Canny is used to describe everything and can mean anything from just ok to strong approval depending on tone and context.

@bettsbattenburg

Black Country. Ar bay a Brummie!

Birmingham isn't the Black Country though

Exactly

Does anyone else call a forward roll a tossover?

@Stinkyjellycat where I’m from it’s called ‘tumbling your creams’

rolypoly=forward roll
side=worktop
puke=vomit

These are called daps where I live (south west England.

It was only in the past year or so that I learned 'daps' is a regional term and not what those shoes are actually called.

where I’m from it’s called ‘tumbling your creams

That is my favourite of the thread so far...

Just what, how?!

@TreaterAnita my gran says flour cake too.

[quote Rebeccasmoonnecklace]@bettsbattenburg I think "Ar Bay a Brummie" means I'm not a Brummie I could be wrong though.[/quote]
I thought it was I be a brummie

Jobby = 💩

@VirginiaWolverine I love spotting the other NI people on here 😁

@bettsbattenburg
You're right ."Ar bay" is I'm not.

Does anyone know what 'Wisht' means, and the region it's from? I've only ever heard one person say it once, and read it in a book too.

'She's looking wisht', to use it in a sentance.

@MrsMoastyToasty
It's called "the" Asda here