To ask if you know what gutties are?

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In mid Scotland, they're the local word for plimsoles or basic trainers. Everyone at school had gutties for PE.

What are your strange local words others haven't heard of or need explaining?

Thought so! I’ve got a friend from Lochgelly and another from Falkirk.

Glaswegians think anyone not Glaswegian is a chookter 😂

Barry, Scottish dialect for good. Also gadge/gadgie for man and radge for furious. I’ve seen some suggestion these might actually come from Romany.

That’s strange, I’m Scottish and the only one I recognise is radge, but it would be used as “on the radge” here if someone is ranting. I’m near Glasgow.

Probably more Edinburgh. I wasn’t sure if they were used in Glasgow.

I recognise gadgie - probably from DH so could be Fife or NI.

@midsomermurderess Barry is Bari in Berwick.. :-)

It's a breadcake in South Yorks, & a jennel / gennel..

A ganzy is another name for a hand knitted jumper for fishermen, each family often had their own design..

The words that I grew up with:
Shroff (for the kiosk where you pay for parking)
Lapsap lady (rubbish collector)
Nullah (storm drain)
Chop (for a stamp)

Word for the time of day just after sunset when the light is mauve and all the white flowers glow as though they're lit by UV. It's not quite twilight (and no pasty faced vampires glittering like a bad GRWM makeup tutorial, which is always a bonus) because there's too much light still - dimpsy.

What about names for Ladybirds?

Jitty - Buckinghamshire for a snicket or ginnel.

North east Scotland and I’d say jimmys for gym shoes(plain black or white canvas shoes), and my dad did call fancier canvas shoes sand shoes

In Devon - dashels are dandelions, dimpsy is dusk (It's getting dimpsy, me loverrr!).

OH (Scot) used to call tennis shoes rubbers. Stopped apparently when he caused a lot of laughter in a sports shop down hear when asking if they had some rubbers.

Gutties here in NI too, but sounds more like guddies.

Bread roll is usually a bap.
My dad called his packed lunch sandwich a piece. That word is dying out here to be honest.
A standard loaf is a pan loaf and a batch loaf is called a plain loaf. So do ya want plain or pan?😅

Here in the NE Radgie-Gadgie is a beer ;-)

Originally I'm a mardy bum with cobs for me sarnies, who'll take a croggy down the jitty in me plimmies

Sand shoes/gym shoes

www.ourdialects.uk/maps/bread/

This is good on the what to call a bread roll conundrum!

Also has anyone else heard someone asking for ‘pea wet’ in their local chippy?

Oh, I remembered another - having t'monk on=sulky, fed up

Hello @sparkysdream 👋🏻Fellow NE Scot here;

would also call them gymmies , still do tend to use that for the trainers which I actually use for the gym.

Northern here. A narrow alley way is a ginnel here.

We used to call them saddlers in our village in rural West Sussex.

mainly used to describe giving someone a lift on your push bike. You’d sit on the saddle and then the rider ride the bike without sitting down and you’d hold on to that persons waist. Absolutely lethal but bloody amazing going down hill!

Northumberland here and we used sand shoes too!

OH still talks about a piece, I must admit that I've started referring to sandwiches as pieces and our girls used to as well.

Plain bread is a particular loaf you can buy, it's a lot taller than a normal half loaf. It's taller with a harder crust on the top and bottom. It also used to tend to have doorstop ends.

Yes I have a friend from the NW who told me about ‘pea wet’ on your chips - the water from peas …. if I remember correctly?

Play piece for whatever you give your kid to eat at morning interval

We use all of them in the north east too (Geordie/Northumbrian dialect )

Also

Bairn = child
Hyem = home
Bonny = pretty/handsome
Marra = friend
Spelk =splinter
Haway = come on
Hadaway n shite = get away with you

Its a whole language really. A lot are norse/viking words I think. My partner is Welsh and couldnt understand anyone when he first moved here.