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

[FormerCarer]

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.

I didn’t realise clothes horse wasn’t standard English? I was brought up in the south east.

Dhs family say Herberts meaning naughty boys. They're from South London, and I've met one other person, from the same bit of South London who also would say Herbert.

No idea if this is a South London phrase, or a London phrase, or just me that had not heard of it.

On the huh - wonky, uneven.
On the drag - running late.
Swidge - puddle.
Meld up - to earth up a plant, like potatoes.
Sayings DH and his family use, they're Suffolk born and bred.

@Tartanhaggis14 ”poorly” is another word I forgot I used to use. “I wer’ right pour-leh” in my broadest Yorkshire. I miss it!

Cob . I thought everyone called a bread roll a cob

Tuffees . To mean most sweets

To mash tea

And parky, nesh and mardy along with other pp

We say bogeys but when I was little my dad called them “puggy boo”s. Does anyone else say that?

I grew up in North Essex and we called that game 'It'.

Absolutely all of these. And also brought up in Sheffield 🤝

Muckle - really big
Snicket - an alley, like a ginnel
Bairn - child
Bread bun - obviously this is the only correct name for it....
Turnips are definitely big and yellow in my eyes, but Tesco say otherwise
Charver - chav

Loads more that I won't even recall, my friend is mega Geordie and sometimes it sounds like a foreign language despite me being born and bred here too!

I use "behaving like a bunch of Herberts" when when describing (to a colleague) the behaviour of some of the classes I work in.
I don't know where I picked it up though, I'm from Herts/Essex area.

East Anglian here, but both my parents are from North London and we always called it a clothes horse. When I went to uni I realized lots of people call it an Airer.

DS's girlfriend, who is S African, calls it a maiden.

Tenfoot - alley way.
Mash the tea.
Twag school not wag.
And we pronounce scone correctly (to rhyme with cone) where I live.

We also eat breakfast, dinner, tea and supper. Not lunch.

Tidy - as a positive response to a question.
babba - baby
bad - unwell
baddy - child’s injury eg graze
but/t -pal, mate
bather - swimming costume
twp - describing someone thought to be a bit daft or dim.
smooth (ie smooth the cat, not stroke)
scram- as in cat scrambed me not scratch

names given to people that match their jobs. Ie, John who works in Halfords is john tyres, aled bus etc etc.

South wales

I don’t say butt or drive (thanks drive...) and I live in South Wales. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 I do thank the driver though…

Daps for plimsolls
a terrapin is a temporary building ( specifically in a school?)
bap is a bread roll
a chuckypig is a woodlouse.

I grew up in Gloucestershire with Welsh heritage so I often use Welsh words as I don’t know an English equivalent, such as ‘wedi pwdi’.
This confuses my colleagues as I know live in Warwickshire.

*now

I always thought cobs were crusty rolls

Then again, crusties can also be hippy types

Westcountry here: love the references to backalong, also where’s that to, emmet (tourist) and numpty.

I lived in Hampshire half my childhood too, do you remember the word dordy… it was a bit like wow / OMG

when I went to university 30 years ago 😵 met Mancunians who used words I’d never heard if, mardy, hanging, mithering . I was in Nottingham so heard nesh, let the dog see the rabbit, a cob was bread roll … down south it’s a type of loaf, so that was a bit weird!

I was about to say “on the huh” but someone beat me to it.

Crinting = crying for attention
Maze as a handcart = daft
Gakey = bit of a lad

SW.

See that yin? Its a bigger bum than 10 arses pit the gither. (Not so much a word,a well used saying here 🤭🤣).

Yeah, nah, strewth is very English too (SW).