Aye, appen you can always tell a yorkshireman, but you can't tell i'm much. Btw did you know the "south" starts in Derbyshire by all acounts and even south Yorkshire baint proper North ! I suppose newcastle is kinda north but too near scotland to argue about and Lancashire hummmm I don't want to start the 2nd war of the roses !
Where ever I have lived there has always been different ways of asking for a Teacake or bap or cob?
In yorkshire we ask for a teacake but when I went down to Torquay once & went to a chippy to ask for a fish teacake they looked at me gone out!! They gave me a currented fish teacake ErrHHHH If I wanted currents in I would have asked for a current teacake. :doh:
we call it a muffin.... or a barm
a tea-cake is the sweet one with currants in it nationwide i think
bread roll= cob in nottingham, but my mate from wakefield calls 'em bread cakes??!! mad as a box of frogs.
And if you get on the A1 in Stevenage, you can go past signs that say The North, Bedford!
well for one - I would like to say thanks to Judy for that info - v - intersting - you are a veritable fountain of information!
Well hailing from the east riding of yorks I find many words different from the rest of the country.
Peopel seem to be atlking about bread so . . . .I know down south some area call breadcakes - fadge cake! My goodness, you wud get your face slapped for that up here - fadge being part of a ladies anatomy. We also call breadckaes - stotties depends how they are cooked.
So here's some phrases from my part of the world
bags foggy - go first
bool - to push something with wheels
tansad- fold up pram
chow - tell someone off
k -lie - sherbert
siling - raining
rhoaring - crying
lug- knots in hair
croggy - lift on bike handlebars
nithered - cold
nunty - old fashioned
I believe nithered is actually a hull word that has permeated downwards thru the country and is used in LOndon now - however a report I read somewhere re dilaiects etc claim it is a humber estuary word - dunno how tru that is tho!
What about going into a chippie and asking for a pattie n chips?
Outside of Hull no one seems to know what the feck a pattie is! Only 'fishcakes'...
Well that's cos we are the only ones who have patties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another exclusive for us Hullensians!
There was a series of books published in Newcastle called "Learn yourself Geordie" quite funny even to native Geordies. Judy is right about fairly close areas having very different accents, if we are ever talking to someone from say Ashington it is a really different accent to anyone from Newcastle.
Even though I am not broad Geordie and try and speak clearly, when I was in Canada I was always asked which part of Germany I was from. Speaking of which, apparently in WW2 a captured U-boat captain was being taken from Portsmouth to somewhere else by train, one of his guards was from Liverpool and one was from Glasgow. The guards could not understand each other and as the German spoke English he had to translate between them!
John
Thank God mithering is a northern term. Thought I'd grown ignorant when everyone in my office had heard of it. I must be the only non-northerner :shock:
I always remember going to my grans as her telling me to "putwoodithoil" amd thinking WTF, or words of that ilk for an 8year old, my verbial response was "what?"
"put wood inth oil"
Same response...
What?
"Shut the door"
Oh, why didnt you say so in the first place!
*slap*
que lots of greeting and snuffling, lol.
So who wants to say where my gran lived, and where "greeting" comes from?
I think terminology is fascinating. But its the accent and the situation that really bring the words to life and place them in your head and heart forever.
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i remember her standing at her window in the room looking out saying jesus it aint half siling it down out there
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