“She looked at him gone out” - what region uses this phrase?

[Lunificent]

My friend says it all the time but I’ve never heard anyone else say it here. I just realised her parents are from Northampton. Would it be from there?

I said this to my OH yesterday and then spent ages trying to explain it 😅

So what does Thanks drive mean?

Scrawming.. bloody hell. I used to say this all the time when the kids were small. My exdh from the south used to look at me gone out when I used it. Hahaha.

I've only ever heard Irish friends use that phrase

East anglia. Never ever heard this before. I love the UK.

Not heard of it before. Would o be using it right to say there's a lot of people in the West and East Midlands looking at other people in West and East Midland gone out? (Because ir seems it's both not used and used there!)

I grew up in the West Mids and I've never heard it! However I was really surprised o discover when I moved south that mardy is regional!

Another one I didn't realise was regional until I was an adult is 'round the Wrekin'. Although as a child I always thought it was 'round the reekin' and never gave a moment's consideration to what a reekin might be 😂

@Linguini

Are you mishearing?

"Going" with a silent g at the end can sound like
"gon" or "goan" "gawn" in some accents.
Many people miss off the g for words ending in ING.

We say those things but it doesn't mean 'going' more 'go and or go on'. Often an extra word added to a sentence to try and convince. Like an informal please

'Gon/goan gi me a tenner'

Spring bank holiday is universal isn't it???
Def in yorkshire

Definitely not 'universal' we don't even have a spring half term in Scotland

@Ohyesiam

So what does Thanks drive mean?

It's the skiing the bus driver when you disembark. In Scotland we say cheers/thanks driver. There is actually quite a lot of similarities in phrases between Bristol and Scotland that I noticed when I lived there

Midlands. Had no idea it wasn't commonplace everywhere!

Common in Yorkshire. West to South border in my experience.

Raised in the West Midlands here and have never heard it in my life - also had no idea what it meant.

@Lunificent

When my friend says it, she means they looked at them weirded out (astounded judgementally). She also calls the Summer half term holiday ‘Springbank”. Is that an East Midlands thing?

Also a thing in Yorkshire.

@mrsfollowill

It's a 'Northern' thing- I'm Yorkshire for donkeys years but was born Lancashire and I've been using/hearing it my entire life - and it def means 'looked at him/her in surprise/bewildered/mildly annoyed'

I've lived in Yorkshire all my life and never once heard it!

Thought everyone said this! I'm from Leicestershire

@WhatICallMyUsername

East Yorkshire here and I hear it frequently! I only say it myself if I aren't concentrating and lapse as I don't like it

Lived in East Yorks all my life and haven't heard it once!

I've lived in Cumbria all my life and I've never EVER heard anyone say this!

So no, it's not "a northern" or a "north west" thing

We would say "I just looked at him"

Commonly used here in Leicestershire. I assumed it was used everywhere but obviously not!

@FrangipaniBlue

I've lived in Cumbria all my life and I've never EVER heard anyone say this!

So no, it's not "a northern" or a "north west" thing

We would say "I just looked at him"

According to another thread half of mumsnet thought Carlisle was in Scotland so you may not be getting included in the NW description 😆

Derbyshire