Local Sayings/Words/Food

[Tinkabell]

I was having a conversation with a friend who is from Grimsby and it was very confusing as we both use different words for the same things ie I say bread cake she says bun, I say picklet she says crumpet.

We also say here "I'm going down road" which everyone knows means the local shopping street, but to anyone not from Hull they dont understand.

We also have a food called a pattie that you get at the fish & chip shop, its mashed potatoe and herbs fried in a batter, but we have never found it anywhere else.

I wondered if other people had different words/sayings or foods where they are.

[trai]

Kerri when you say bread cake , do you mean like cobs and baps or is it a type of cake. (sorry if i'm thick)
We say crumpets and picklets here.
my dh likes the sound of patties, we've never heard of them before.

[K8ELOU]

My auntie is from Yorkshire and we have a laugh because we say cakes for fairy cakes and she says buns. We say baps for bread cakes she says baps for boobies. She goes ' Down t'shops' we go ' U Panley' ( Hanley being our main shopping centre). We say keaming (sp?) for when the kids are annoying each other. Oh and we have Oatcakes. She has fishcakes with fish in we just have mashed potatoes and herbs or as mentioned before patties.

[lisa1980]

in cumbria we call friends, marra and say I for yes and for how r u? hows fettle? , and if ur not well u say im bad fettle and where i live in whitehaven were called jam eaters

[trai]

My friend from yorkshire calls cakes buns.

[kathyhinsh]

Down here in portsmouth area, if 4 example ur child is being whiny, we say they're having a 'squinny'

[Bunny]

I'm another Cumbria and we call ears ~ lugs

[lisa1980]

I'm another Cumbria and we call ears ~ lugs

:hysterica forgot that one

[bikemad]

:hysterica Were shall I begin!!!!!!!

Grancha is grandad,

Fish shop is the chippy,

The misses is the name for a g/f r dp that is female,

O god theres so many I cant recall them all atm il post some more tomorow.

[Tinkabell]

Sorry, bread cakes is a bap/roll and I call cream cakes buns hence the confusion with friend when we are trying to sort lunch out. As she will say I will have a cheese bun and I think of cream buns with chesse on and the same for her when I say bread cake.

If someone is telling you off we say they are chowing at us.
Skipping school is called twagging.
We also say "I'll bray yer if you carry on" which means hit.
To let someone else ride on your bike at the same time as you is to give them a croggy.
The alleyway that runs along the back of houses is a tenfoot.
Sherbet is called kalie - we always ask for a quarter of kalie.
We also drop H's so Hull becomes 'ull

There is a book published called A Visitrs Guide to Hull and it lists all the local sayings so people can understand what we are saying, its a very funny read.

[Macaroni]

I have the same confusion with my DH. Im a yorkshire lass living with a southerner in the south.:ac39:

I have breakfast, dinner and tea, but DH has breakfast, lunch and dinner !

I say tea cakes or rolls for bread cakes/baps/buns

Buns are mini cakes

[inchtwinkle]

Down here in portsmouth area, if 4 example ur child is being whiny, we say they're having a 'squinny'
i love that one, and you call all your mate mush, (if below the age of 21 lol)

dh is from gloucester and they talk funny, "how bis" how are you and they use the term I alot, "shake I like a feather" , i'll have to ask him fro some more, i ignore it half the time lol:hysterica

[Tinkabell]

Macaroni I have breakfast, dinner and tea definitaly a yorkshire thing.

Have you had savoury duck or is that a hull thing - not sure if it yorkshire dish

[Macaroni]

Never heard of savory duck !! lol Im guessing its nothing at all to do with duck??

[Tinkabell]

Your right got no duck what so ever. Its a hard one to explain what they are, they only available at one bakery. Its also one of those dishes that everyone cooks differently depending on how there mum cooked it a bit like corn beef hash has loads of variations.

[Macaroni]

Hhhmmmmmmmm lol

[bikemad]

Ok...

Skipping school is Mitching off
We have a annoying habit of makeing our A in a word sound like a bunch of E's such as in the word Game we say it as Geeeeeeeeem.
Anywere behind the graden be it a road,mountain lane whatever is always called Up the lane
We have breakfast dinner n tea.
Bread rolls are rolls,Baps are a kids word for boobs,cakes are cakes be they cream or whatever.

O n we dont say Mum we say Mam wich is really annoying if ya kid calls you cos you get maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam shouted n it grates on you big time!!!!!20061008

[yap982]

:party05: I'm origionally from Bolton Lancs and use
up the wooden hill (the stairs)
to bedfordshire (bed)
dog and bone (phone)
tata ash (corned beef stew)
her indoors (the wife/partner)
block (as in head) (knock your block off)
lights (eyes) (knock your lights out)
bus is pronounced "buzz", which really gets on the prestonians nerves!
cuppa or brew (tea, 2 sugars with milk)
barm (bread bun)
t'chippy (local chip shop)
int' town (goin shoppin)
crossit dossit (cross the road)
buttons (remote control)

Now I live in Preston and have picked up a few,
r peg (her indoors)
the b*t*h (a guys fave rc!!!

[Katiequiggle]

Not sure if these are different or not, but we call them bread rolls or just rolls and cakes are cakes but yeast type cakes are buns or sometimes teacakes. If we go into London we usually just say we're going into town and of course a creche is a collision between two cars in Knightsbridge.

Lol only joking about the last one.

Love Kate

[Tinkabell]

Yap we say knock yer block off and cuppa. Has anyone ever heard the word tansad - its what my mum and older family members call a buggy.

Instead of saying "do you want anything from the chippy" we say "d yer want owt from chippy"

[lizzie]

:party05: I'm origionally from Bolton Lancs and use
up the wooden hill (the stairs)
to bedfordshire (bed)
dog and bone (phone)
tata ash (corned beef stew)
her indoors (the wife/partner)
block (as in head) (knock your block off)
lights (eyes) (knock your lights out)
bus is pronounced "buzz", which really gets on the prestonians nerves!
cuppa or brew (tea, 2 sugars with milk)
barm (bread bun)
t'chippy (local chip shop)
int' town (goin shoppin)
crossit dossit (cross the road)
buttons (remote control)

Now I live in Preston and have picked up a few,
r peg (her indoors)
the b*t*h (a guys fave rc!!!



Preston people talk funny :laugh: I'm from a town where we sound like farmers but preston well there from another planet :laugh:

[blueberry]

:unsure: :wacko: :babyflips

Having major headache after reading all your posts!!! I don't think I'd have survived anywhere in the UK! It would be like being in France or Japan! (Well at least in the UK I'll know how to read a road sign :laugh: )

I have breakfast, dinner and tea, but DH has breakfast, lunch and dinner !

And this!!! No wonder I've been so confused ever since i joined this forum! Don't laugh but I've been quitely wondering - why do these people have dinner in the afternoon and tea in the evenings!!! Over here the order of eating is as such - breakfast in the morning, lunch in the afternoon (12-1ish), tea in the late afternoon (3-4ish), dinner in the evening, and if you're a glutton you have supper before bed.

[Katiequiggle]

We have Breakfast, lunch and dinner, with tea around 4ish. A few years ago one of ds's friends in nursery was from Germany and his Mum invited us round to play and made a big thing about getting teapots and plates of cakes etc. at 4pm and explained that she new that all of us English people stopped everything for tea at 4pm. I thought it was quite amazing of her to think of the whole country coming to a stand still at 4 for tea. lol.

Kate

[Tinkabell]

Oh, I think it would be great if we all stopped at 4 for tea and cake. I think we should set a campaign up to bring afternoon tea back lol.

My friend is from Switzerland and she had a little confusion when the weather got cold as she went to the garage and asked what time of year we put our snow tyres on. Bless her, she was very red faced when she was told that she would probably be able to manage with her normal tyres. She didnt realise we dont really get the snow like she does in Switzerland.

[K8ELOU]

We have a visitors book for the Potteries called ' Arfa towk rate in staffy cher' ( How to talk right in Staffordshire) and also in the local paper we have a cartoon called 'May un mar lady' ( me and my lady) which is written in the broad potteries accent. My Mum used to send clips to my auntie in Sheffield and she used to show them to her friends and also have to translate them :hysterica

Oh another little saying was ' coz thee kick a bow agen a wow un ed i' wiv yer ed until yer bost it?' which is basically 'can you kick a ball against a wall and head it with your head until you burst it?'