Has anybody else come across this meaning of ‘a place’?

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I took my DM to a hospital appointment last week. The dr asked why she was wearing a small dressing on her leg. She said ‘oh that’s just a place’. He looked confused and DM repeated this a couple of times ‘it’s just a place’. I remember this from my childhood, ‘a place’ meant a small area of injury to the skin. I explained this to the dr and all was fine.

Ive realised this might be a really odd thing to say and am wondering if anyone else has come across this. I’ve never used it. Has my DM invented this??

I love these two. I think they were sisters called May and June. IIRC they did a series of little videos on local BBC news.
I dont have a Devon accent but I've lived in rural Devon all my life so understand every word of it. Literally sounds like my childhood 🥰
She was going to Exeter on a shopping trip for a new China bucket because she used to make wine in one but on a cold day her dad dropped the saw in the shed when he was sawing up wood and it broke the bucket. So she went to woolworths and asked if they had a China bucket (because she wanted to make wine in it) the lady in the shop said no, we don't sell them, have you tried boots? She replied I've tried boots but it comes out of the lace holes 😅

My mum may have said it and grandparents (born 1900s) definitely did

Never heard it. Love that video and you understand it after a short while.

@whenareyouback aww thank you so much for the video, the lady speaking sounds just like my Nan did. I can understand most of what she’s saying. My Grandad had a thicker accent and I couldn’t understand him if he was talking to friends of his. Lovely memories!

I thought it was a Scottish thing. My Glaswegian father used to say it. “I’ve got a place on my nose”

@Mummyofthewildones sounds like my childhood too! So lovely to hear.

Teading these posts makes me wonder if maybe ‘a place’ isn’t a Devonian phrase, but a generational one.

If it's related to 'plaie' in French, and is mostly being heard in Devon and there abouts, but also in Scotland, that suggests to me that it comes from before the heavy invasion of Britain when the old language was driven to the further corners of Britain.

Need sleep, can't explain more, but that is possibly where it comes from.

Also current in Leicestershire among my DGM's generation (born 1892)