North/Midlands vs South slang/words..

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  • breakstuffbreakstuff Frets: 10230
    Deadman said:

    Some local slang names for towns and city's round here.

    Meggies - Cleethorpes.

    Scunny - Scunthorpe.

    Donny - Doncaster.

    Skeggy/Skeg Vegas - Skegness.

    That bloody shithole - Hull.

     Scarbados (Scarborough) always cracks me up.
    Brilliant. Haven't heard that one before.

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  • LegionreturnsLegionreturns Frets: 7965
    Calderfornia... to describe Todmorden and the surrounding area, popular with outdoor pursuits types.

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  • Phil_aka_PipPhil_aka_Pip Frets: 9794
    My mum's favourite saying of her grandma: "Yuh gorra wakken yer sen up an' gerron wi' i'". The RP for the last word would be "it".
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  • boogiemanboogieman Frets: 12315
    I was very confused when I moved up north and a street on an incline stopped being a hill and became a bank. The alleyway / footpath running between the houses suddenly became a ginnel 
    My aunty lives in Gateshead and I remember going up there as a kid with my mum and dad. My aunty has sent a set of directions of how to get to the house, saying “turn left at the bank”. Dad spent ages driving up and down the road looking for something like a Barclays. 
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  • NiteflyNitefly Frets: 4902

    Apeth - when I was called "a daft apeth" by my mum I thought I was being called a small ape - didn't get that it was short for "ha'pworth" (i.e half-penny-worth) for years.

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  • westwest Frets: 994
    "if yoam right i know weir thes a house full "   a popular phrase used in an argument when you want to insinuate the opponents idea is insane , the house in question was barnsley hall the local psyciactric hospital .....
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  • WezVWezV Frets: 16547
    edited June 2018
    vale said:
    my fav northern slang word ever. reminds me of a very dear & long lost northern friend.



    Is mardy considered northern now?


    I am from the Midlands* and have always used it.   When I first went uni and went a few years stomping around greater Manchester nobody had ever heard of it 


    *although I suppose it is above London, so many would consider it Northern


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  • westwest Frets: 994
    i thought mardy was norfolk norwich ish ...
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  • ToneControlToneControl Frets: 11791
    Budgie said:
    Derbyshire (and probably elsewhere)

    Cob (the proper name for a bread roll)

    Jitty

    Dogshelf

    Av I 'eck as

    Larup

    Chelping

    Ommocks

    Wang

    Clackfart / Blobfart

    Rammel

    'is sen


    I remember finding a "pea batty" in a little town in the peaks, which is a masterpiece of invention
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  • ToneControlToneControl Frets: 11791
    WezV said:
    vale said:
    my fav northern slang word ever. reminds me of a very dear & long lost northern friend.



    Is mardy considered northern now?


    I am from the Midlands* and have always used it.   When I first went uni and went a few years stomping around greater Manchester nobody had ever heard of it 


    *although I suppose it is above London, so many would consider it Northern


    the yorkies say "have you got a munk on?"
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  • ToneControlToneControl Frets: 11791
    west said:
    I was very confused when I moved up north and a street on an incline stopped being a hill and became a bank. The alleyway / footpath running between the houses suddenly became a ginnel 
    its a bonk round these parts , some times you see one or two unkempt shire horses tethered on a grassy bonk , they are bonk osses, it is also an expression to describe ladies of a certain size / appearance/ moral standard especially if they are from brierley hill ...  hence  brierley hill bonk Osses , for when one eye starts to close after 12 pints of bathams ....
    when yow'm wenchin
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  • ToneControlToneControl Frets: 11791
    west said:
    i thought mardy was norfolk norwich ish ...
    best black country phrase I ever heard was

    "T'ot ta ate ay it?"
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  • westwest Frets: 994
    west said:
    i thought mardy was norfolk norwich ish ...
    best black country phrase I ever heard was

    "T'ot ta ate ay it?"
    R , which triggered a saying i remember when i lived in somerset " OTenuff for eeeee ...?"
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  • westwest Frets: 994
    Also , nothing spells loving like marrying yer cousin ... and the dr's acronym for NFB  normal for bridgwater ....
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  • WazmeisterWazmeister Frets: 9448
    edited June 2018
    @west - “cockaver”... loffed me yed off at that one !

    Here’s a local one to me...

    ”... she’s loik her mutha abart the fairce...”


    Meaning, she bears more than a passing resemblance to her Mom...
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  • westwest Frets: 994
    Book of Ayli .. black country version of a mans search of tipton for original recipe for faggots ....
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  • westwest Frets: 994
    @west - “cockaver”... loffed me yed off at that one !
     

    i'm sure we've all had a few cockavers in our time .....
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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 16255
    west said:
    Book of Ayli .. black country version of a mans search of tipton for original recipe for faggots ....
    My mother has the old testament in black country somewhere although I'd probably recommend tales of a black country nurse. Long time since I looked at either though. 
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • boogiemanboogieman Frets: 12315
    west said:
    Book of Ayli .. black country version of a mans search of tipton for original recipe for faggots ....
    My mother has the old testament in black country somewhere although I'd probably recommend tales of a black country nurse. Long time since I looked at either though. 
    My missus is black country on her dad’s side. She comes out with some unintelligible (to me) stuff every now and then. Her favourite is “ooh it looks dark over Wilf’s Mothers” when there’s a storm coming. 
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