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

Even slang is different around places

Like If I am tired I say I am cream crackered I said that to someone the other day and they though I was going mad lol

We call sections of hay sections. I know people that call turn out tugs new zelands which makes sense but has never stuck with me. I cant think of any more at this point in time
 
Hay - either slice, section or flake (live on the Berks/Hants border).

But I grew up in Yorkshire and then moved to the US for a good long while so have a rather confused vocab!

Alley = snicket
Pikelets
In the US, "pavement" means road . . . and "sidewalk" is what we would call pavement
Our family shops at the "grocery store" rather than the supermarket - even my daughters who have lived in the UK since they were 2 and 4 (and are now 13 and 15)
We buy "gas" (short for gasoline) at a "gas station" rather than a petrol station
My cousin-in-law (US) "puts her horse in the pasture" rather than turning him out in a paddock
Stable = stall
Trailer = float (like NZ and AU)
Headcollar = halter
Hay is generally made of either timothy grass or alfalfa and some folks in the US still feed grain rather than processed feed

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Cake of hay in Devon where I grew up. When I was first on yards in London/Herts they looked at me like I was mad. They use sections or slices though one person from near Bath uses Flaps.
 
We have slices of hay (North East) and bread buns instead of rolls, scallions instead of salad onions, pikelets instead of crumpets.
 
its slices here in Oxford too!
When I first moved to my current yard (been there 8 years), when the owner was showing me around so asked me to make sure I 'did the bobs' in the field every day. I didnt have a clue what she meant and was too scared to ask, so I asked one of the others. She meant poo picking!!!!! I am now used to it being referred to as 'getting the bobs' or 'collecting the bobs'. Weird!
 
oh and everyone at our place refers to fly masks as 'ears', i.e can you put his ears on when you turn him out please? I think the rest of the universe calls them fly masks though and that is local just to our yard!
 
I live in Lincolnshire but my family is both from Scotland and Yorkshire.... So here goes :(

Wedge of hay
A crumpet is the thick one
A piklet I'd the thin one

The swede turnip argument is rife with me and yellow belly

The big yellow one I call a turnip, he calls it a swede

And the little White one I call a swede and he calls a turnip.

Neeps and tatties is called that for a reason, it is not swede and tatties :D
 
hollyandivy123 said:
cob
stottie (up in newcastle)
oven cakes (hull)
baps
softies
crusties
barm cakes


anyone else have other names for the little bread roll?

well at least the important thing at uni is you can learn a new language!
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YES - Where i come from we call em batches!!!!! my OH is always telling me that theyre rolls, or buns, nope sorry theyre batches :)

and i call em piklets too not crumpets, but piklets to me are the ones with the holes in, crumpets are a bit like the muffins from McDonalds :)

And as for alley's, i call em gitty's

Hay its a, slice, but ive heard them called flakes, cakes, leafs etc.,
 
Here in derbyshire it is a slice of hay. We also have cobs (bread ones not horses!), pikelets, jitties, and duck doesn't necessarily refer to waterfowl...... Ey oop mi duck!
 
Daisydo said:
I live in Lincolnshire but my family is both from Scotland and Yorkshire.... So here goes :(

Wedge of hay
A crumpet is the thick one
A piklet I'd the thin one

The swede turnip argument is rife with me and yellow belly

The big yellow one I call a turnip, he calls it a swede

And the little White one I call a swede and he calls a turnip.

Neeps and tatties is called that for a reason, it is not swede and tatties :D
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Swedes are yellow & purple (yellow inside), turnips are white (or white & purple). Other half works for a fruit & veg company so he knows his veg lol!!
 
Daisydo said:
I live in Lincolnshire but my family is both from Scotland and Yorkshire.... So here goes :(

Wedge of hay
A crumpet is the thick one
A piklet I'd the thin one

The swede turnip argument is rife with me and yellow belly

The big yellow one I call a turnip, he calls it a swede

And the little White one I call a swede and he calls a turnip.

Neeps and tatties is called that for a reason, it is not swede and tatties :D
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whats a neep then?? Really confused now. lol. Is it a swede? or cabbage (can you feed horse cabbage)?
 
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hollyandivy123 said:
so the question is different parts of the country call things slightly differently

as in the small sections of a hay bale (not round)

i have heard.............leaf's.................section's of course..............but down my way in zomerset we call them flaps

does anyone have any other names for them? :)
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slices
 
In Manchester where I grew up a slice of hay is a pack.

All bread bun type things are a muffin. As in ham muffin, muffin toast etc - seems to a very localised thing as you get a blank look anywhere else but North Manchester. I think people think I'm asking for a sandwich with a muffin of the chocolate chip variety!
 
I'm from South Yorks originally but live in Norfolk now and have no apparent accent, though the rest of my family still talk like northern monkeys (....joke....)

Hay - comes in slices or sections.

Remeber the pikely for crumpet when I was in yorkshire.
We also 'mashed' the tea
and the word we were allowed to use for something poo related was 'bobbarr'
pronounced bob R. (what a load of bobbarr)

My manager is from leicester and calls bread rolls Cobs, though I knew them a bread cakes.
 
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