different sayings from different regions, what do you call things?

Hehe I'm from south yorks & yea we mash tea too!! Mother in law 'masts' tea which I can't get my head round!!

I'm really enjoying this thread!! I have a very broad accent & find it really funny when we go away to shows where people 'talk a bit posh' as the girl puts it!! No-one can understand owt we say lol!!
 
gracey - im in the Midlands near to Coventry :)

Only ever heard people from Nuneaton, Bedworth or Coventry call it a batch before, the look on some blokes face in the Cotswolds once when i asked for a batch was priceless :D
 
Joyous70 said:
gracey - im in the Midlands near to Coventry :)

Only ever heard people from Nuneaton, Bedworth or Coventry call it a batch before, the look on some blokes face in the Cotswolds once when i asked for a batch was priceless :D
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lol ha ha :D ..yep i know now not to ask for a batch whenever i leave home!! lol :) x
 
I'm from South Yorks and have always called a section of hay a 'slice'. Friends round here call it a 'page' though.

We have pikelets which are the same as crumpets (the things with holes in that you toast).

Alleys are snickets or jennals (spelt wrong to illustrate pronunciation!). A snicket is the gap between houses leading from one street to the next, a jennal is the gap between terraced houses leading to the back yard.

A bread roll is a bread cake.

A fish cake is a slice of potato, slice of fish, slice of potato in batter.

A rissole is mashed up fish and potato.

Everyone, male or female is called 'Luv' by everyone, male or female. This came as a shock to a male Scottish friend who thought the males our town must all be gay as they all called him 'luv'!

Sweets are called spice

You have your lunch in snap tin, not a lunch box and a snack lunch is called snap.

I could go on for ever, I love local dialect :)
 
I'm originally from Bristol but most of my horsey times were in somerset and now wiltshire, hay is in slices, bread rolls are just rolls lol
i love the bristolian word 'scrage' like when you fall over and scrage your knee:D
plus we say snow is pitching and wasps are called jaspers.
the wiltshire phrase i love best is 'some when' instead if some time:D
 
I'm from South Wales originally and frequently come out with things that result in blank looks.

Scram - what a bramble or cat will do to you
Uch-a-vie (phonetic spelling!) - that's nasty
Tuthpaste - toooothpaste
Housecoat - dressing gown
Face cloth - flannel
Sospan - saucepan

Loads more....!
 
because I'm a bit of a mongrel and have lived in many different areas of the country (and the world!) I think people here in Kent must think I'm a bit strange! I use snicket and ginnel (no body knows either word), bread cake, balm cake, cob (don't know them either), snap (lunch), fish oil (chippy), ach-a-vee, mardy etc etc! Sometimes just one word will say what you mean!

Hay comes in a slice round here and at our yard (I think it's only there), they put the horses' pants on at night in the winter! :D
 
I have slices of hay, sheafs off of a round bale. It's a good craic up here. You fetch your messages and eat your peices. YOu then have bridies, cob's, you get well fired cobs, and pancakes are those minging thick ones rather than the thin ones you toss.

Right off to make the ponies dinner before Torchwood starts!
 
I am from quite a rural part of NI, and a lot of our expressions are quite old. To me, a section of hay is called a "lith" and hard feed is "meal" (pronounced "mail"). The jargon differs around the region though! Some others:
Duchel - Dung heap
Pachel - A useless person
A piece - a sandwich
Gulpin - Idiot
Hallion - a through-other person (actually means a castrated male goat apparently)

And the craic is ninety! :D
 
Ibblebibble said:
I'm originally from Bristol but most of my horsey times were in somerset and now wiltshire, hay is in slices, bread rolls are just rolls lol
i love the bristolian word 'scrage' like when you fall over and scrage your knee:D
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We have a similar word - scrab - means to scratch or cut!

We also say "scundered" to mean fed up, but across the Bann they say scundered to mean embarrassed. Very odd.
 
Biscuit of hay here. or at least it is in my family :)

Breadcake
Mash the tea (as in a cuppa)
Snickets or ginnels
Mardy (i love this word)
Daft - dunno if its regional or not, but when i called a southern friend it he didnt have a clue what i meant
Crumpets and pikelets (2 different things afaik)
Quilt = duvet
 
I've lived in a fair few places, but originally from kent, so compared to kent, I've heard:

Sections = wedges
Removing raggwort = ragging or rag-weeding
chav = kev
Lunch = dinner
Dinner = tea

Am sure there are others

In Cornwall/ Devon 'where's that' is 'where's that to?' still say that now
Most sentences end with 'my lover'
 
Hay comes in slices round here,and we ahve sandwiches or rolls! Bucks/Beds/Herts borders.
I was out with friends last week and one from suffolk called a hedgehog a "prickle pig"- never heard that before!
 
wonkey_donkey said:
What about;

Nuts

Cubes

Nuggets

Pencils

Something else

What do you guys call these up and down the country ??? !!!
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Assuming all these refer to pony nuts, they fall under the catergory of "mail" (see above) ;)

What do you call flake maize? We call it kerenda/karenda (don;t think there even is a correct spelling!)
 
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