To share my family's quirks?

[CrayfordCatford]

My Dad called a jigsaw a crossword.

He also called Sainsbury's 'Salisbury's'. A very earnest expression was worn by him when he referred to said supermarket as 'Salisbury's'

"I want to go to Salisbury's!"

Cillit bang Clit bang with my friends in the 90s

I call our George Foreman the George Formby.

My DH's brother used to call Sainsbury's "Sainsbum's".

My DD used to call the vacuum the "sucker mabucker".

My DM used to call the utility room in our old house "the yooot"

There's a whole thread somewhere on what people call their remote controllers! Hoofer Doofer in my house too.

Dibbler, zapper, or ‘the buttons’ for us.

‘Leg of lamb’ or ‘can of coke’ must always be said in a scouse accent round here. ‘Pea and ham’ is to be said Iim the style of an east end gangster.

Horrible is hobbla due to my niece when she was little (40 this year!)
If something is too hot for you hand ie washing up water, baking tray or toast it is alway described as heavy rather than hot.
Remote control is the buttons
A little sad that we have to stop calling Rugby 'Rumpy' because the child who started this thinks we are taking the mick because they now know the correct pronunciation.
As per a previous poster my family and I always refer to a petrol garage, as opposed to a car garage (for repairs, MOT etc) and a garage which is attached to a house and is full of junk instead of a car. Honestly spent a few minutes wondering what else a petrol garage could be called.
A couple of mine from childhood: Pompy Ears for a Space Hopper and fuzzed up for that bloated/hiccupy feeling after drinking a fizzy drink.

This is so funny

T-Nails instead of toe nails

Zup instead of 7-up

Yes! George Formby, that's another one. Although it's a long gone appliance now, I used to sing "When I'm Grilling Chicken" at it.

Thought of another, we now say Microwave as 'mee cro wah vay', in honour of Nigella (I do her chocolate salami every Christmas and it's bloody fab)

Bandylion and Durdock - DH got it muddled one day after taking Oramorph and it stuck.
There was a chain of convenience stores called Jacksons which were bought out by Sains almost 20 years ago. I still call them Wacko's.
We also have skissors, sketty, cow juice and gelatinous neonates.

Elbows have always been "oboes" in our house since DS called them that as a toddler.

Pisgetti Bolognaise
Mayo-NAYYYYZE (for those old enough to remember Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman)
Remote is a dobber

My dad combines the words texting and Twitter when referring to sending a text.

"I'll twixt you the info", "Send me a twixt."

We call haircuts, " wigsnips", pork pie is known as "pig tart" and dried figs are "boonbums", because one of the DCs decided that they look like baboons' backsides.

@GADDay mayo-NAYYYZE made me lol. We always say “da papers, da papers” if we’re buying the Sunday papers from goodfellas.
Chocolate buttons are dittons, a bruise or cut is a sorely bash, asking someone to be quiet must be said as “Shaaat-app”in a cockney accent. If someone mentions London, the reply must be “ay, where t’streets er paved wiv gold”. God we sound weird 🤣

In the early 90s, my grandad called the A-Z map the A-B. We still refer to any form of sat nav as the A-B.

@TroysMammy

Nope, not from Swansea!

I'm Aberdonian.

@BebbanburgIsMine perhaps a butcher should open a shop in Sketty and call it Sketty Mince 😃

@TroysMammy

That would be funny ! 😂