General Chat

Christine - my parents were on holiday and I was about a year old apparently - the Irish maid called me a 'lovely wee wean' - my mother was upset - she thought the maid had called me 'a lovely wee worm'! Ann

I was born in London, my mum was from Nottingham so i got used to unusual words, dont be mardy was one of her favorites. love Helen

Sharron I used to smile every time I addressed post to my son when he lived in a twitten. Being a southerner, I had never known anyone 'mash' tea until my brother married someone from Leicester. She did the 'pots' afterwards too.

Does any one else 'SNIGGLE'?

No, no sweetie, he is Jamie Barber, REME.....LOL Susie xx

He is not Jock Brown, royal signals? LOL Bob

Yes my hubby does that Bob and he is in the army and Scottish aswell!! Susie xx

When I was in the army, we had a Scot lad that used the word HOW? to mean Why? Bob

Our family came from London, before that Norfolk, and we also said you rick your ankle.

That's it I knew I had heard her use stave !! that was when I fell down the stairs and skelf when the girls are messing with her wooden washing pole thanks! Susie xx

Susie, stave is usually like a sprain. A splinter in Glasgow is a skelf and in Edinburgh a spiel. Anne I think N. Ireland and Glasgow have a lot of words in common, like the weans for children, in the east we say Bairns! Christine

If I remember right the M I L say's Stave for a splinter!! Susie xx

Again from N. I. where they have a language of their own, to hurt your ankle is to 'rick it', dust is stour. Somewhere I have an Ulster/English dictionary - it is a hoot to read! Ann

How about something that has gone smelly? I say Fowsty !! Hubby say Foosty!! What do you say? Susie xx

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

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

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

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

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

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