UK regional variations - What ^don't^ you get about the area you moved to?

[hockeymum]

Following on from the other living overseas thread. I thought I'd start one about regional differences. No flaming!!

Moved from Hampshire to Cardiff. I don't get...

"half an half" on Indian Menus, even the good ones, who has chips with curry?

The Word DAP. It means:-
about my dap - about my build
pair of daps - pair of trainers
set of daps - set of tyres for the car

Saying "Cheer Drive" to the taxi driver, bus driver. I wouldn't like to be called by my profession.

"Alright But!" as a greeting.

Rightyho then, add your regions and your funnies here....

I like this!
My dad's Welsh and calls trainers "daps".

Expat southerner here, adrift in Yorkshire for over a decade, and still don't get:

• "9 while 5"
• people selling meat/fish on trays in pubs
• all these odd words for grandma: "Nannan" etc.

Sure there are more!

Just about got used to "chips and gravy" and even quite like it.

DH is from Cardiff. Why are things not 'over there' but 'over by there'. If they're by there, then they're not there, are they??

He also has daps.

Where we live now, roundabouts referred to as 'islands'. What?!

My favourites are regional variations for bread rolls...baps, buns, cobs etc

OOHH.........I am married to a yorkshire boy and his mum is my DDs Nanan.......also we do the 9 while 5 thing and have breadcakes instead of rolls the one thing I dont like when going to sheffield is that a fish shop fish cake is not the same as down south, it is some grasy batter covered thing with 2 slices of potatoes and a bit of fish in the middle!!!
Also in our house we talk northern ie bath instead of barth etc etc

And I have to say on thinking about it I have no idea why I talk northern as I am an essex girl by birth

LOL @ 'over by there' pedantry anniediv!

Another Welshism:

Where did you go, or where was that = locals say
Where was that to?

yeah, I really noticed the by there thing when I moved here but after 9 years find myself using it now!

Not sure if it's a regional thing, but I remember when I was a legal secretary temp when I first moved here and the solicitor was dictating "My client was in drink when he opened the door" I asked the other girls where Drink was", I'd never heard the phrase "in drink" to mean "drunk". Think it's a "posh-welsh" thing though as I haven't heard it much since.

"Where's it to" - Plymouth thing
"Where to is it?" - Welsh thing

Okay, here's a question, if you have left something at home, where is it?

Is it 'at home' or 'indoors'?

I'm atonished at the pagan frenzy which gets whipped up on and around bonfire nigth in East Sussex.

In quiet English villages they go wild for the season burning effigies and generally letting rip.

Bristolians think that things are 'he' or 'she' rather than 'it': dh was baffled the first time he went to buy bread as the lovely lady in the shop asked him 'do you want him sliced?'
and I wish I could do the accent.... 'ideal' instead of 'idea', and so on.......

I'm originally from Warrington and now live in Norfolk. What i don't get down here is no-one says 'inside' or 'in the house' it's always 'indoors', as in 'I'm now gooing indoors'. i've even started saying it myself now

I love chip shop slang. When visiting friends up in Wigan we went to the chippy for lunch, 'do you want a smack?' asks my friend out of the blue. Eh? Not really, do you want a punch? Turns out he meant what I call a scallop, ie slice of potato in batter.

lol @ 'do you want a smack?'

Oh, in East London we have pie and mash shops, which sell "liquor", which appears to be made out of parsley?!?

And they do takeaway mash, wrapped in paper. That surely isn't normal?

Yes, NQC, liquor is like a parsley sauce. I am exiled in the Midlands, so am now dribbling at the thought of pie and mash.

coming from Aus to essex -

'indoors' was a hard one to get used to.

'orright?' for hello I used to tell people I was all right or not all right and wondered why they looked funny at me.

squash for cordial

sweeties for lollies ( obviously according to dh lollies are of course, ice blocks!)

guy fawkes night with crackers going off until new years - here in Aus - due to hazards - esp in dry summer weather - home fireworks are illegal. Only companies with trained pyrotechnicians can do it.

essex girls !!

essex boys!!

boy racers in their weeny cars with stereo equipment worth more than their car cruising the same seafront block in sarf end (south end)for hours on end...

For dh's kent - chimney sweep festival in Rochester - scary sweeps with weird make up on!!! very strange

Had forgotten all the bread roll confusion. Very odd. Surely "roll" is understood everywhere?

"Islands" too, yes.

DW talks about wearing items of clothing "to" one another.

As for pronunication, I've always disputed that there is any "r" sound in the way i say path, bath, grass etc. It's just a longer a. Clue: say "Bath Spa". Pronounce the "a" in both words the same. That's how we say it.

ohhh the essex - darnce, charnce, etc only those ppl in Aus trying to pretend to be posh speak like that - so amused to hear it out of the mouths od kids from Basildon Essex

the glottal stop ( from memory) dropping their t's mid word..... and the 'th' that is pronounce f.

Well you would think that a 'roll' is fairly uniform, but not when I lived oop north, or when family moved to Leicester.

Convo in pub between landlady and I:

anniediv "do you serve food?"
landlady " i'll do you a filled cob"
anniediv "oh, thank you, do you serve food?"

(continues in this vein for several hours)

I love the idea of going to chip shop for a smack! Perhaps Jamie Oliver should suggest it as an aid to healthier eating ....

'where's it to' is common round here too (Somerset).

Brizzle is something else though isn't it. It just seems so odd.... WHY would you add an L on the end of vowels. I just can't see how it happened. Perhaps they just thought it was a Grey tide eel.

I am from Essex, and what I'm aware of in my own speech is if words end in 'll' I end them in 'w', so 'Jill' and 'hill' become 'Jiw', 'hiw' etc.

very sloppy, too engrained now though!

Also in Wigan (they're funny up there) similar to liquor, they have 'pea wet' which is the juice off mushy peas poured over chips.

I do that too anniediv

also knock the 'g' off words like 'somethin', 'eatin' etc

(also from essex)

ProfYaffle, I had blanked that hideous memory of pea wet out of my mind!! Also, 'parched peas' have you heard of them?? They are a very northern thing!

Molesworth, what is worse then the missing 'g' at the end is when I say 'summink', 'nuffink' etc

I come from down south and have lived in Merseyside for 16 yrs(!) Was really tickled when someone asked me in a club if I wanted a bevvie, and taxi drivers have called me Queen too! Wouldn't happen in Bedford!!
I now say bath instead of barth and my dd aged 5 has a lovely scouse accent!