Things that you thought everyone did and said?

[PeppermintPie]

I had this discussion with two friends. One thought that sleeping with the tv on and a light was something that everyone did until she moved out and learned that it wasn’t the norm.

Another thought that everyone used the terms mardy and nesh until she moved here and people had no idea what she meant.

It’s making me wonder what I say that I think of as normal but is actually specific to my area.

What things did you do and say that you thought were ubiquitous?

I’m in the north and it’s not used here

Not everyone knows jaspers are wasps, or that a shramming wind chills you to the bone.

Things I discovered on leaving Dorset for Cambridge.

Snow pitches here (Somerset) but apparently it just settles elsewhere… how odd!

Ah this made me think of my very Lancashire nan who would say, "Come and give me a love."

@TheRomanticOutlaw not exactly hiding. There is a sense of setting aside for later too. And a sense of setting down. You can plank yourself down.

I'm South Yorkshire and in my little town Nesh is a word to describe someone who is always cold but Baltic is used to describe you being cold!

So,

'you're nesh you are'

Or

'I'm absolutely Baltic today'.

The only people I've heard 'klap the dog' from were Swedish - very interested that it's in Scots as well.

Me too!! I'm off to smooth my cat right now 🥰🥰🥰

You would get a "scrage" on your knee if you injured it. Its a graze. (Bristolian).

Monkeypee. I’m from the south east and that is what we call woodlouse. Had no idea no one else calls them that until I went to uni.

There's a t shirt company in Bristol called Beast that does a lot of t shirts with local phrases

When I moved to Leicester in the 1980s I looked out of the window and saw ‘Sue’s Cob Shop’ opposite. I had no idea what it sold! Cob is used for a bread roll in those parts.

I love the idea of ‘smoothing’ the cat.

Laking out = playing out
Gubbins = rubbish Ie don't talk a load of gubbins

gosh fancy calling slaters monkeypeas

Smoothing is ironing here 😂

I first heard the term “lunching it out” on a protest site in the south and I always thought that community was where it came from.
There was also “tat” for your possessions, or just stuff, so that clearing up a site was “tatting down”.
Anyone who went off for a walk, or went off to travel about in their vans, was “going for a bimble” or “bimbling about”.

In Lincolnshire, there is the word “rammel”, which is used for all the rubbish or waste in the garden, on a building site, or in the house. It can include all your bits and pieces that aren't rubbish, too.

In Kent, chickens were “coopies”, although I wonder if that's gone out of use, now.
Yes, I remember monkeypeas! We called ants “pismires” as well.

Because there's a weird troll obsessed with them who starts so.many threads that the P word is a trigger that automatically hides your post until MN can verify you aren't the P troll

I just listened to the audio book The List of Suspicious Things and 'laking out' featured heavily 😊

Clap a dog
She's ben the kitchen
Or in the loaby
Bottle of ginger
Taking the ginges to the van
Millions more i cant think of...

In the south east we say 'got the knock' for being annoyed... nobody seems to use it elsewhere

To give someone a bosie - a kiss, west coast of Scotland but probably from the French baiser.
Is besom Scottish too? Pronounced bizzim, usually a mischievous female child. 'Oh you wee besom!'

We "rub" our dogs but I think that's just because that's what my stepson called it when he was little, so it's stuck! I think our dogs would like to be smoothed though 😂

My uni mates took the piss out of me for saying 'over laid' and 'face on'.

I’m in the SE and remember this from my youth. We’d also say someone was ‘knocky’.

I'm from Glasgow, but when living in London, I realised that no one else calls the after-funeral drinks and food a “purvey”.