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.

Rochdale gang all piled into say cruckle! Hello my fellow Lancashire lasses @Berrynoice and @Pinkgin00 I've done my fair share of walking round the Weighvers' Seaport too. Do you still call the Winepress "The Fish?"

Oh Merseyside then Staffordshire via Birmingham - also call the kids babbies

From Ireland and we use the word bold instead of naughty. Saw a lady use it here saying ‘maybe he was a bit bold’ and she got jumped on (I still don’t know why tbh!!)

The descriptions of bread in Ireland are so different to the uk and like someone above, I thought everyone knew what a chipper was!! I also thought we invented going out out, didn’t realise it was used elsewhere 😂

Did they tell you to stop skriking or they'd give yer sommit t' skrike about.

I use outwith on a regular basis. I don't think there's an exact alternative so I have taken it up.

I also use mardy, mither, chipper, chuffed, mashing (for tea), nesh, twitchel, mooch.

I'm from the South and now live in East Anglia.

@idaglossopI’m guessing from the mithering and from your username that you are from the north west like me. Mither was a favourite word of my Mum’s as well

you must be near me 😆 what colour are your chips and can you get s slips from the chippy? do you have a piecey with your dinner and did you wash your Donnie's?

I'm from near Peterborough and have always said mizzle for misty rain. I've had quizzical looks..
I know a lot of the words mentioned in this thread, whether because they've spread or because they're not actually regional, I don't know.

@HobnobsChoice It will always be the Fish to me. I think it was still called the Fish when I moved away.

@Berrynoice YES! Or something very similar - definitely remember hearing “or I’ll give you something to moan/maunge about”

I was going to say somewhen too.

I was ridiculously old when I discovered it wasn't standard English.

scallops not slips!

@berrynoice yeah what are you skriking for now , taking me back to my childhood days there 🤣

@HobnobsChoice it always has and always will be the fish

Daps

Me too!! I can guess where you live, then. 😁😁

Has anyone else said sneeped yet? I didn't realise that was a regional word until I went to university and was met by blank looks when I used it! (Sneeped means slightly hurt/offended.)

Bait for packed lunch and Bairn, for child both from my mum, and ‘ow bist from my dad! (How are you?)
Darlington for Mum, Bristol for dad!

I grew up in Devon and we said daps!

I read all of those in my gran's very broad accent. I'd forgotten having a go on the slider.

I'm not from the Black Country, but i absolutely love 'Bostin' I hear it in a brummie accent.

I'm a Lancastrian, but I am also nesh, as I found out on a Christmas Eve pub crawl in Sheffield

My cat is a bit of a mardy bum

When I lived in Burnley people used the word "agait", which i haven't heard since I lived there. I think it means 'said' - so 'I said... she said..." would be "am agait... an' she's agait..."

I love local dialect. I'm also from Rochdale and when we were kids we called poos 'bobs'

Edited to add - I've only heard "cob on" in Liverpool, along with "woolly back" (basically any other northerner who isn't a scouser) and lolly-ice instead of ice-lolly, which is just plain wrong.

I’ve just had a conversation with DP about what we called the game ‘tig/ tag’ at school.

I'm from Lancs and it was ‘tig’.
He’s from North Wales and it was ‘tick’.
Other times I’ve heard it called ‘tag’.

We even have t shirts with Bristolian phrases.

The other one i forgot is about snow. If its starting to settle on the ground its "pitching".

You've literally just taught me back along is a west country -ism too 🤯

Interesting… wonder whether it got mangled on the journey to South Manc or it was a Hull import.

I struggled buying lunch in York. I come from the south west and asked for a bap - them's not baps them's breadcakes.

Woodlice = chickypig, small child (often a boy) = tacker, and of course everything will be done "drackly".