Things that you thought everyone did and said?

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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?

Ireland too ☺️

Remembered another one from the Midlands, it’s just come to mind looking at the sky here “it’s black over Bill’s mother’s”, meaning the sky looks very dark and threatening rain. I have no idea why Bill or his mother come into it!

My mum used to use the word cotter for a tangle or knot in my hair.

Pixie Knots for hair tangles : )

@MerelyPlaying I just love this phrase about Bill's Mother (also said here by locals - Derbyshire).

Also - well I'll go to the foot of our stairs (said when in receipt of surprising news).

When I was little we called these "cockle overs". I have no idea if that was specific to my family or if it's an East Lancs thing. I certainly don't know anyone else that uses that phrase!

I know jiffling - Lincolnshire, next to Norfolk.

I heard nesh from a friend in Lancashire. I didn't use it before.

I've always known 'mardy'.

In Yorkshire I learned that a 'spell' can be what I call a 'splinter'.

'Soft as grease'.

I call woodlice "cheese bobs". I thought this was a common slang term for them (like daddy long legs for crane flies) but my husband insists I've made it up and no one else on earth calls them cheese bobs.

I think nesh is a Yorkshire word. My mum and her brother used it being from Yorkshire, but I haven't heard it from other places in the North.

I think my relatives from Country Durham used to say this. I thought they were talking about my Uncle Bill's mother's house!

Surely clap is pat? You don't pat cats, they'd probably have your eyeballs out, so you stroke them. But you can clap a horse!

My Mum from Yorkshire would say that she "cockled over" when going over on her ankle.

@FireandSound My mum referred to knots in hair as cotters too. I had forgotten that. She was from West Hartlepool, and I've just seen a reddit post that pins it down quite close to that location.

My part of Scotland you'd say coppled. Not too different 😆

"Right you are then!" reminds me of my maternal grandmother, she always used to say that! Where I live people say "up brew" meaning up the hill.

I'm Canadian and really enjoying this thread. There are loads of odd phrases I've never heard! My mother was from Jersey, so did have an accent, and had to learn some new words when she moved here.

We are used to "BBC News" accents, and from the odd tv show over the years. but my DH has a hard time with some UK accents, as well as different words being used. When I'm on the Beauty and Style board I have to make an effort to remember pants are trousers, and sweaters are jumpers.

Today I'm wearing blue pants and a coral sweater. :) I won't say what colour my underwear is!

I don't think I'd realised until now that jiffle is so regional. Parents and GPs definitely used it in Norfolk, and perhaps it's not a phrase I use enough now in S Yorks to see locals here don't understand it.

Control their dreams, I thought everyone could do that. Apparently not.

I was born and brought up in Leicester, I never heard the term until I moved to Nottingham.

I love that word!

I was convinced my colleague from
Hull had an amateur gambling addiction cos he went out daily for Snap.

Took an hour!

It's such a lovely word!

My sibling lives in England and now uses cuddle. I just don't understand why they would choose cuddle over cwtch!!

And of course the 'I'll do that now in a minute' always gets the look of complete confusion when you cross the Welsh border.

Grew up in the SW and never heard of 'smoothing' the cat but it does seem appropriate.
The shoes beginning with P are daps of course, but woodlice are chiggypigs. We also ask where things are 'to'. People are apparently baffled if I ask where things are to!

Our teachers called sweets bullets. You got a bullet for working hard.

I love pet, hinny, bairn.

We say that in Ireland too! I never realised it was regional.
Can only think of:
-'giving out' for ranting
-'amn't I' for 'aren't I'
-banjaxed for broken
-jacks for toilets
-wagon for bitch
-shift for kiss
-fucked to mean throw, as in 'she fucked it across the room"
-saying 'stop' when someone's telling a dramatic story, and you mean 'you poor thing, I can't believe this, please continue'... said it a few times in America and the person would just stop talking and look taken aback! Took me a while to realise

I remember my friend telling me she could do that and I was in awe. She said it's not day dreaming, it's dreaming but she can control it. I have never understood how that is possible if you are asleep.