General Chat

Evening All The other day I wrote to one of my contacts and the opening line of my email was 'I am sorry to mither you but...........'. She very kindly came back with the information I was after but at the same time asked 'What on earth is 'to mither'?!?! I wrote back and explained that it means to pester, to bother etc and she said she had never heard it before! Has anyone else had any experience of not being understood in their own country? LOL Take care Paul

I have often seen words that I had to ask the meaning of WOTCHER was one of them! I suppose it depends where in the country you come lol!!

Hi Paul, I'm a Northerner down south and I found that people didn't know what I meant when I told my children to stop mithering! Must be a Northern thing but there doesn't seem to be a southern equivalent that does the job! Janice

Karen, in Glasgow gym shoes are 'sandshoes or sannies' and here in Edinburgh they are 'penny blacks'! BTW up here 'mither' is the woman who gave birth to you! LOL Christine

Ginnell (sp?) An alleyway - couldn't understand a thing that was said to me when I first arrived in Yorkshire - it really is another language, lol.

When we jolly folk of Sussex have an itch we have a good firk at it.Sometimes we do it in the street without even bothering to go up a twitten to do it privately.If we don't do it now we will do it somewhen.

Another word for trainers up here is gutties. Not sure wether it is a Glasgow or Edinburgh thing.

My hubby's family are all glaswegian and I have only ever heard them say 'Trainee's' for trainers it might then be Edinburgh.....Oh there you go Anne has told you it is!! Susie xx

Anne I should have known that coming from glasgow. But staying here I get a bit confused. What about stanks then?

I thought gutties were catapults or slings! Amazing the different use of words only a few miles apart! Christine

Coming from Glasgow too, Spud (notice I got your name right! LOL) I know what a stank is, but living in Edinburgh, I'm now bi-lingual, and call it a siver now! Christine

Spud if you google glaswegian slang it gives you sites that are in depth Stank on this site has about 15 meanings!! Check it out..Urban dictionary-author Simon Susie xx

Correct Anne. One for anyone from Edinburgh - Baffies

baffies can be your slippers or wee flat shoes! What about 'tumblin yer wilkies', when I moved to Edinburgh, everyone thought it was something rude! LOL Christine

In N. Ireland - gym shoes are gutties, a sink is the jawbox and a breadknife is a gulley. Gravy is not Bisto gravy but the fat from bacon or chops. Spring onions are scallions. Ann

That site is really good Trainee which is what my M I L calls them means something different all together!! Fancy that! By the way the M I L does calls the drains Stanks too!!....even I knew that much.. Susie xx

Worts/Wortleberries - bit like small blue berries? Used to go picking them as a kid. Always getting told off by Hubby for saying 'where's it to?' meaning where is it? These would be Somerset/Devonshire words and sayings. Kaye

My wife comes from Sheffield, and if one helps themself from some food before it is served, she says 'Stop sniggling.' Is this a northern term or just a family thing? It is something I had not heard before I met her. Dave

Yes Anne, that's it, through here they say 'doing henners'! We call spring onions syboes.(pronounced 'sybees') Christine

In our town if you twist or turn your ankle we say you have cruckled. No one else seems to understand me if I say it. Margaret