...to make a UK map of slang for bunking off lessons...

[WalkDontWalk]

This is a spin-off from another thread....

Skipping lessons or entire days of school was 'bunking off' where I grew up - which was Sarf London.

There's an Arctic Monkeys song in which Alex mentions 'she wagged English and Science', which I checked with a friend from Sheffield, and it means what I thought it meant.

I think you could make a map of the UK by plotting regional slang for skipping lessons.

Dogging it -West coast of Scotland. Husband is from shit outside Glasgow also says Dogging it but we have different names for carrying someone on your back. I call it a ‘cokey back’ he calls it a ‘coal carry’.

Skivving - Leicestershire

And if the Mitcher Man caught you ...I wouldn't know what would happen because I never did. My DM worked in the school canteen and I was afraid a teacher would say "is eldest daughter off school ill, she wasn't in class today?" My arse would have been grass 😂

Bunking off or skiving - west London / Middlesex

Mitching in Wiltshire, but occasionally skiving was used too

Mitching - Cardiff

Bunking off/skiving

East mids.

DD says they call it skip (Surrey).

Sitting down doing nothing for half an hour...not so much of a punishment.

North West.. Waggin' it

Skiving in '80s Dorset.