Are there any regional words which you use and didn’t realise that not everyone else does?

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Inspired by a conversation with friends from different areas who assumed that everyone used mardy and mithering. It’s making me question now which words I assume are universal and really aren’t.

Yes my Mum always calls sherbet kaylie (no idea of correct spelling) and she calls licorice Spanish. So if she asks for Spanish with kaylie I know exactly what she means.

I’m from South Yorkshire I forgot about monk on I haven’t heard that in years. Also Gip (pronounced jip) as in getting gip on meaning getting arse on.

I mentioned earlier backsis pronounced ‘backs is’
do you know what that means?

To me, "Giving me jip."means pain or discomfort as in "My knee is giving me kip.:

Maybe. My grandad, my dad's father, came from Glasgow, the Gorbals. He moved down to Newcastle. He used to say he was Irish, because he was ashamed of coming from the Gorbals. But anyway, your dad's word sounds similar to spelk, doesn't it. I will have to do some more research.

When I lived in N.Devon wasps were called Appledrains.

Dinny/ Dinlo ( doing something a bit daft). I said this to my Watford born husband the other day and he'd never heard of it . Iwas really surprised when I looked it up to find out its a totally Portsmouth thing! I moved away years ago...
Also a 'Sparsy' its a coin ( a Thrupanny bit / threepence) thrown to the Mudlarks ( people scavenging for stuff in the mud at tide mark in the dockyard).

And Squinny ( used as a noun and a Verb). For complainers. That might be more used elsewhere

How lovely - I've never heard that.

I haven't RTFT but I'm place marking with " Manky"

aka " a bit grubby"
My DD used to say " these toilets are a bit manky" when she was very little which confused people as we live in Essex 🤣

It was always 'Spanish' for me as well.

Earwigs are twitchy-bells

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I spent my early years in Scotland and have always thought of turnip = orange, swede = white.

If by chipples you mean those thin, ready salted crisp stick things, we call them that! NE

Just thought of another couple
Lifting - stinking, really smelly
Clamming - starving hungry

I haven't heard of your words - but I am diagonally opposite, in the SW.

No, I mean the salad vegetable - I think most people say spring onions? We say chipple onions.

Ha, no I've never heard of that for spring onions!

Danny = hand, mostly children's hands. "Go and wash your little dannies".

Sheffield area.

Quite a few words that are taken from Welsh, such as tump (twmp) for anything from a molehill to a big hill.

Butty for one of a pair e.g where's the butty to this one? whilst pairing up socks.

All round the Wrekin. When you have a meandering awkward journey.

Also, a jasper is a wasp.

Dannies for hands.

Is "yonks" nationwide, meaning "for a long time"?

Yes, yonks or dunkey's yers

Where does "X saw his arse" mean and where is it from?

When I lived in London I went on a date with a guy from there. It was a seafood restaurant and he suggested oysters. I said oh no thanks, they go through me. Completely normal way in the north of saying something gives you the ick. He gave me a strange look and kind of laughed and I thought nothing of it. Couple of weeks later we were out in borough market and I said oh maybe I will try an oyster, he looked and me and said don’t they give you the shits 🙈

I’d have thought that was the only way of interpreting what you said! 😂
Is it different in the north then?
(I’m in Ireland.)

@Randomchat my aunt has winterdykes too. And turnips are the big yellow thing you make your lanterns out of at Hallowe'en. Use haar all the time on the east coast here and skelf (spelk in Geordie)

Has anyone else heard the phrase "as big a liar as Tom Pepper" for someone who is a habitual fibber? It was used by my grandparents generation.