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I expect Mr Plimsoll of the Plimsoll Line also had something to do with the deck shoes. Off to Google.

Hello @ValancyRedfern 👋 But sand shoes??? Although being from the Mids we’re a kind way from sand, unless it was a pile the council had dumped to build something. Happy days 😃

*long

Samuel Plimsoll.

No idea why I know this!

I bagsy @Piggywaspushed for pub quiz team mate!

I also would have called any trainer thing a sneaker by virtue of my DM. Apparently sandshoes is also Australian!

My DMIL calls a jumper a sweater. She is from Essex and now lives in S Wales. I had thought this was exclusively US but it seems not. Unless it's an affectation because of her American GCs which it might be.

Oh yes, I like me a quiz!!

Crikey the regional accents discussion started by me I think has taken up several pages!
Rolls, plimsolls, and I never know what to call that, having grown up very rurally (or ‘brutally’ as autocorrect would have had it!).

DH (because of his Irish parents) calls the kids ‘bold’ meaning ‘cheeky’, although I would consider ‘bold’ to be a positive adjective.

I'm ick at Australians/kiwis calling flip flops thongs.

I LOVE a quiz - as long as you have nice team mates to chat to ( ✔️) in the boring bits and as long as it doesn’t go on for 22 rounds or something.

I also love a quiz. I occasionally join the head on his quiz team but he's a sore loser.

Love a pub quiz!

Plimsolls = pumps
Bread item = bap or barm where I'm from
Alley = ginnel

We can do the quiz when we go to Egypt - my friend will be overjoyed - she takes the weekly quiz very seriously. Prize is drink tokens and smugness.

We love a quiz here and think we’ve created a monster in DS. A bed time we’ve had to out a limit on the amount of questions he can ask us because quite frankly they hurt our head. Convo the other day was ‘mummy, how many names of fish do you know? How many fish have you ever seen? How many fish are there in the world? How many fish can kill you? (There always has to be a question about death)’ last night I had to Google how many people were alive in the year 005.

@motherrunner

I say ‘you’ve got a cob on’ when the kids are ‘mardy’.

In terms of regional foods my Black Country Nan (my other nan did live in the BC too but originated from Hampshire so was ‘posh’) always had sterilised milk. I’ve never seen it sold anywhere other than round here!

My dad, who went to school in the Black Country, would wax lyrical about ‘sterry milk’ - awful stuff!

Baps and pumps at home, breadcakes and plimmys here.

Daps
A roll
Alley

Bold is the word my 7 year old Bob's mum uses to describe him. She calls herself a gypsy.

Drink tokens and smugness sound good to me.
The one I occasionally do donates the entry fees to charity every week, which is nice. It's a very local pub so they tend to be local charities.

We had diluting orange and fresh orange growing up.
Plimsolls are gutties.
I used to love a pub quiz but seem to have lost all my general knowledge

@CarrieBlue It is awful! The only glass bottles that should have metal pop caps are beer bottles!

@HarrietDVane

Roll (but round here the locals would call it a batch), plimsolls (locals call them pumps) and squash.

What about this thing? I'm going with alley.

Twitten if from the South.

I’ve just remembered another regional ‘delicacy’ - “lardy cake”. Yes, it is basically a fat slab with currants in.

@motherrunner

I’ve just remembered another regional ‘delicacy’ - “lardy cake”. Yes, it is basically a fat slab with currants in.

I messaged mum earlier to ask her to stock up for when I'm home. Love a lardy with a nice cuppa.

Quiz lovers on twitter need to follow this guy: twitter.com/forwardnotback/status/1380972428562739202?s=21

He does a twitter general knowledge quiz every night except Wednesdays, 7pm answers at 8:30pm. Our kids join in too as there are questions they can answer, we do it at dinner (or do you call it tea/supper?).

@MrsHam I hate it but they remind me of my dad. He didn’t have a sweet tooth but would have his weekly ‘Lardy’.