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

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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....!

Well to add to my mix of Bristolian/Bath/Somerset my dad is Welsh so I am often shouting "uch-a-vie" when the dogs are sniffing things on walks that they shouldn't be!
 

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leaf of hay for me too.
Up here if someone is going for their shopping they say 'they are going for the messages'.
Bit of an old fashioned thing really.


Ha! I've been reading a series of auto-biography books from an Irish author and it took me to book 3 before I worked out what 'going for the messages' meant! doh!
 

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I call hay a slice or a wedge.

As I'm old, I'm still trying to remember that outdoor rugs are as such and not New Zealands!

Night rugs are called pyjamas or jim-jams though!

A bread roll is a bread roll! Soft or crusty, or a bap if it's flatter. A cob is a hard nobbly one I think....
 

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Sofa - couch
Remote control - now theres gotta be loads of words for this! we say the controller
Tooth round here is tuth :mad: ihate that word, its TOOOOOOTH!!
i say dressing gown - they say house coat :confused:
Long green runner beans are called kidney beans :rolleyes:
 

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From South Bristle they be called 'Flaps of hay' me old cocker. My pony usually has a couple of them in his haynet, he thinks they are gert lush.

Small savoury tea time treats which you toast and butter are called crumpets or pikelets.

Plimsoll are called daps.

Anything with is good or worth doing is gert mint.

All said in a krek bristle accent.
 

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Pack of hay
Tea Cake for the plain bread, Currant Tea Cake for, well the ones with fruit in :D
Oven bottom cake for big round flat bread cakes
Ten foot for the road between the back gardens of terrace houses
Crumpet for the one with holes, muffins for those without holes
Laikin for playing
Agate for on fire, or aflick for being on fire
Maungy
chuntering (muttering)
Sauny (a mix of oily and ingratiating, particularly men)
There are probably a load more, we hill folk are a bit unusual.........
 

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Hmm, have had this conversation often after moving here!

From Canada:

flakes of hay, or slices
halter for headcollar
blanket for rug (rug is something that's on the floor, and you walk on)
bell boots for over-reach boots
lead line for lead rope
saddlepad for both saddlecloth and numnah
arena for school

Problematic ordinary words:

pants (meaning trousers)
f*nny (meaning bum, so a "f*nny pack" is that bum pack thing you strap around your waist. Potential for huge misunderstandings here, especially since the word is considered a bit more polite than saying "bum" in many places in Canada.)


My favourite new words:

to clart (cover in goo, as in "I clarted the pony's shnozzle with sun-cream")
neep (not sure about the "swede vs. turnip" debate, because "swede" seems like an odd term to me---why not "finn"??---but I assume if it's in the big bucket labelled "neeps" at the feed shop, it must be a neep.)
narky (especially when used as a verb, as in "the ponies are narking at each other over the haynet")
numpty
dreich (bleh grey weather)
 

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I'm a Midlands girl born and bred. To me they are:

"Wodges" or "slices" of hay

A "piece" is a sandwich (as in "would you like a jam piece?")

"Nesh" is if you always feel the cold

McDonalds is "Macky D's"

If something is good, it's "bostin"

To be drunk is to be "kaylied"

If you are mad, you're a bit "yampy" :D
 

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talking of problems in translations...............everyone down my way is "a lurver" or love as in "alright my lurver?" (said with a couple of extra ZZ in the word) you do get weird looks when you start calling complete strangers this esp from their girl friends !:)
 

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From South Bristle they be called 'Flaps of hay' me old cocker. My pony usually has a couple of them in his haynet, he thinks they are gert lush.

Small savoury tea time treats which you toast and butter are called crumpets or pikelets.

Plimsoll are called daps.

Anything with is good or worth doing is gert mint.

All said in a krek bristle accent.


hehe, i forgot about daps:D
what about 'werz 'e to?' for where is he?
 

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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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'Halter' is also used in SA.
We call shavings (for bedding) 'sawdust'

Traffic lights are 'robots'
Roundabouts are 'traffic circles'
Mobiles are 'cell phones' - Americana creeping in there

My RI is old school and still talks about New Zealand rugs when she means turnout rugs.
 

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here in my part of lancashire we call them pleats of hay, so my shetland often only gets 1 pleat. Nobody else has mentioned pleats yet on this thread that i can see.

There are soooo many others though that i have noticed as OH is from the NE, mum is from yorkshire, dad and i are lancashire born and bread... but even then, my aunty from another part of lancashire has different words for stuff... then there is my sister who lived in london for a long time.
 

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Yay, scrage! We're from Bristol and use it all the time. It's such a great word :) Never heard anyone else use it and we were starting to think we'd made it up, but obviously not!

Oh, and flap or slice of hay for me please.

And as far as I am aware, a pikelet and a crumpet are the same .....
 

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We have slices of hay in Lancashire/Blackpool. Here are just a few others! hehe!...

We "brew up" (make a cup of tea)

We love a "cheese pie barm"...yummy! (that's a cheese and onion pie in a roll)

We get "Leathered" (drunk)

We're "Buzzin" (happy/on top of the world)

It's "Caning" (hurts... as in my head is caning, or it caned when i fell off!!)

We have lots of "Chavs" (tracksuit wearing youngsters!)

.... I do love Blackpool! It's grand/wicked/fab/buzzin!!

ETA - Goosed! (totaly forgot goosed! That mean tired/knackered!)
 
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North Scotland seems to have it's own language anyway but one that stands out is fields are called 'parks'.

I grew up in the States so I have a weird vocabulary anyway. I'd never seen rugs before I moved to the UK.
 

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For anyone not from Bristol - do you use "shrammed"?

When the snose pithcing coz its ammering down you'd probably be shrammed - specially if you had yer daps on instead of yer wellies.
 

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I say a slice of hay,
it's a batch,
someone in a grump is mardy,
we poo pick
one phrase I hate is the fad around here to call everyone 'youth', pronounced 'yuth'..., erm I'm much older than you, hardly a youth, or 'kid'.
 

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i've always said "section" of hay, but i've heard others call it a slice.

I'm in Sussex, i'll be moving to the south west (Wilts)at some point, so your SW sayings have made me laugh- nearly spilt my mug of coffee over my keyboard! :)
 
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