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?

My husband looked at me askance when I described our sick daughter as “looking a bit eye-y.”

Also Lancashire!

I thought daps was midlands. I’m northern and say pumps.

Definitely pumps here in the Midlands, only the posh would wear plimsolls.

Mom. I was always confused as a child why cards said Mum which was the posh word for Mom. I have a Mom, as do all my friends but the cards were stupid.

Sand shoes - northeast

😂

We call them Dereks, but that’s just our family 😁.

In Lincolnshire “ while” meant until. I.e Wait while your dad gets home.
Was told there were great problems when pedestrian crossings came in “ wait while red man is flashing” was read as wait until the red man is flashing.
Might be an urban myth but neighbour in Lincs swore it was true.

Gamboling about would be aimless physical movement but "a gambol" singular is a forward roll.

Taffles. I'm not even sure this is a regional thing but an even more localised thing. DH reckons it's something I made up.

(Taffles = when your hair gets slightly knotted up. Most people would probably say "tangles")

I'm from the North East and we say 'chatty' for shoddy/badly made/won't last long. I used 'cheap and chatty' for years with DH to describe whether furniture, clothes, tools or toys were worth buying and he finally confessed he had no idea what I meant!

I’ve only today learned that smoothing the cat isn’t universally understood!

Woodlice here are chuggiepigs thanks to my dh who is from Cheshire but lived in Australia for a few years pre teen. We live on the south and our kids used this name for them too, much to the confusion of their school friends.
He also, due to living in Australia, calls flip flops thongs and various veggies by their Oz name, ie zucchini instead of courgette.

I'm NW and I can't believe nesh isn't used all over the country. What word do you use to describe someone who feels the cold easily?

My autocorrect always wants to change it to mothering so I presume mither or mithering is one which I don't think is widely used. It's when a someone won't give up asking you for something or annoying you about something. For example, "my DD has been mithering me to buy her some new trainers for weeks now". Or, "just give me 5 minutes to think, I'm feeling all mithered".

I've a book on Dorset dialect claiming bimble for us.

Dorset here, but with Southampton born and raised mother, and I've not heard of smoothing the cat before - and we always had cats. I've also lived in Romsey and worked in Soton and around (and just started a job in Portsmouth,) so it'd be interesting to see a gloss map of its use.

Portsmouth, going by its museum, has a lot of its own dialect.

this reminded me- my gran and her sister ( my great aunt) called them ‘pugs’. As in, “ you’ve got a lot of pugs in your hair” 🤣
Ive no idea if that was just my family or if it’s a South Wales thing.
Re: wood lice, we call them Granny Greys.
Plimsolls are daps in South Wales.
Sandwiches can be Butties.

Lying like a hairy egg is a phrase my mum used to use - I've used it as an adult and people have no idea what I'm on about.

Nesh and snap are two words I wasn't aware of until I moved up north. Nesh- cold, snap - food

I'm NW and I can't believe nesh isn't used all over the country. What word do you use to describe someone who feels the cold easily?

No single word I can think of - I'd just say "they feel the cold easily."

What did I say? 🤣
a particular word for sports footwear is causing problems, it seems!

Of course, to Southamptoners Portsmouth is an entirely different country!

‘Anon, sir, anon’

( Shakespeare’s waiter)

I know. I haven't told anyone of my family roots yet...

I like that!
Going to use it 😁

Yorkshire folk also use “while” and “until” interchangeably. “He’s working two while ten today”, or “It’s open Monday while Friday”. Always makes me giggle.

Scottish living in Wales and I get a lot of funny looks. These are my favourites:

Peely wally - a bit pale
Jaggy nettles - stinging nettles
Oose - fluff
Tumbling your wilkies - doing a forward roll