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?

Forgot rure. It means to cry

We say nesh and mardy - I'm Nottingham

Also NE England. I've always thought something being chatty probably came from the fact something was Ch eap and T atty = tatty / chatty.

We have loads of old words phrases in our family. My Dad still calls sweets Bullets. He also says 'Ower Yonder' and 'I'll see you Anon' Used to call marbles Liggies.

Plus obviously bairn, pet, hinny etc still used quite a lot by the older folk round my way.

There was a persistent troll fetishist who started loads of threads about 'this item of clothing' a few months ago. I think MNHQ had to flag the word in order to bring it to their attention.

Is this the same as the Cornish 'Dreckly'?

It's looking dark over Bill's Mothers = There's a storm coming over the hill.

Mum used to say Blood and stomach pills when she hit her finger with a hammer doing DIY. She always tried not to swear in front of us as kids, so we got other colourful language instead.

I remember an old guy passing us on a walk and we were eating sarnis as we went - can't recall why - and he said 'Eee It comes to something when you've got to eat your snap on the move!'

Our next door neighbour used to end every conversation with 'Right you are then!'

Shropshire - used to be ''twothree' for a vague number under 5.

I have smoothed my cat this morning and I can report that she liked it.

Used to work in Suffolk - the locals used "on the drag" to mean late for something. My Hampshire relatives were more likely to say "all behind like a cow's tail" to mean much the same thing

Politicians always talk a right load o' gubbins.

@Bearsinmotion its not specific to chemistry. Its just a maths representation of any generalised number i.e. n= number. I love that your dad tried to incorporate it into everyday use though 😁

Never heard of bimbling before this thread.

Also some things I thought everyone knew and clearly don't!

I thought mither was universal, but it isn't. It's a very useful word though.

Do people everywhere get ruckly chests?

We use both kali and sherbet around here. They taste the same but kali is crystals like caster sugar and sherbet is powdery like icing sugar.

I grew up in Stoke. We said nesh and mardarse. Also:

Duck as a term of endearment
Summat instead of something
Ta-rah for goodbye
Cheesybug for woodlouse

On the huh, or on the wonk - wonky, not straight.

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?

We'd call that a cauld tattie/cold tattie up here. (NE Scotland but I'd assume this was used all over Scotland).

Mither! Genuinely thought it was an actual word rather than slang.

Some other West Country sayings I’m very familiar with:

Toad - naughty child (or pet)
Gurt pudden - silly person
Back along - some time ago
Cheers Drive - thank you (bus) driver
Lush - beautiful or delicious
Chinny reckon - I don’t believe it
Little maid - little girl (my Devon Grandma used this one all the time)

Cob is a stocky horse round here.

The first (and certainly most enthusiastic) user of “bimble” I ever met was from Shropshire.

We say ‘close’ for muggy weather here in Glasgow…’it’s that close the day!’

I’m from the South West with lots of relatives in South Wales and I’ve never heard anyone say smoothing the cat!

I do use the word bimble though (and do a lot of bimbling myself!)

What is it slang for? I thought it was a real word

I'd say it was dialect rather than slang.

Mum was okay with us using dialect, but not slang. I didn't know the difference other than both appeared to be words not to use in schoolwork.