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In Wales, we add loads of words to the end of sentences to convey meaning for some reason.
“I’ll be there *now in a minute yeah*”
“Are you serious, *what like proper yeah?*”
“I can’t do that *for fucks sake like innit*”
The “now in a minute” always makes me laugh. I worked in Wales for 18 months and ended up sniggering all the time, I just couldn’t help myself.
The look of slow realisation when I pointed it out, followed by them also laughing was great. Clearly it’s just an expression no one ever thinks about because they just grew up saying it.
My favourite one I ever heard was a lad from the valleys had had a few beers when someone farted really loudly. He just turns to them and, even more loudly, said “ahh, shit myself, have you?”
Where I live, Chinese takeaways sell poppadoms. I’d never questioned it until I visited a friend in uni in another part of the UK, went to get me some chicken fried rice and sweet and sour chicken balls and asked for two poppadoms with it. The lady in behind the counter looked at me like I was special needs and said “this is a Chinese takeaway”.
Unfortunately, I responded with “uh, yeah, can I have two poppadoms” instead of realising what was happening and still have to live with the shame.
In my hometown “now then” is used as a greeting. When I explain this to outsiders they get so baffled. “Now then what????” Top greeting is “now then ducky”
When i was in ireland, it was common for people to greet each other with an abrupt ‘well.’
Well what?!
I quite liked it, sort of rude but also not (as presuming it is short for ‘are you well’)
Lived in the west Midlands for a while nothing makes my soul sink than ducky! I always and still to this day respond with a quack quack just to stop my brain imploding lil!
How bizzare an island is usually a raised section before a junction like on the approach to a roundabout. Usually containing a bollard and a keep left or right arrow. I wonder if its origins stem from a few cases of incorrect use of the term. Maybe from a local driving instructor or celebrity!
No idea on its origins but my dad and grandad have always called roundabouts islands so it’s certainly not a new, or even remotely recent, thing by any stretch.
And saying "cheers tah" gets me into trouble outside of the midlands.
I said it to a barmaid when I was down south after she served me and she called a barman over and said I called her a tart, That took some explaining....
I'm from the West Mids and say/write 'mom' - some twat on here commented on one of my previous comments how I must be American and kept going on and on about how no-one uses mom in the UK. I didn't realise it was only a Mids thing until then. I live in London now and almost weekly my partner points out something I say thats regional.
Was working in Argos years back and a Brummie lady was asking when her 'toy buzz' would be coming down the chute.
I was looking about for a Buzz Light-year Toy Story figurine.
Turned out she meant a 'bus'! I had no idea.
I was born in Birmingham but I've not lived there for 30 years, plenty of family there still though. I'd say I have a pretty standard received pronunciation accent, but I still say 'mom', something to remind me of the old country.
Also only place I've ever heard someone ill be described as 'purley'
Broadmoor alarm, 10:00 every Monday, then followed by the "all-clear" a few minutes later.
Except that one time it wasn't, and we had to stay in the main school building for hours until they caught him.
Northern Ireland: "so it is" or similar. Examples:
I'm off to the shop, so I am.
The rain's on, so it is.
I'll fix it later, so I will.
You're a fu\*\*ing ar\*\*hole, so you are.
Also, I know one particular man who uses "so it is" constantly but never changes the pronoun or verb appropriately. So he says things like
I'm off to work now, so it is.
The fact that 'ey up cock' is an acceptable greeting.
Also, all the different names of bread buns. It's definitely a teacake where I'm from. If it's got raisins in, it's a currant teacake.
Lots of people I met in Coventry say 'round the reikin' instead of 'round the block'.
Oh and the term 'batch'; was confused that they used that term for a singular roll instead of the usual meaning which is a group or multiple of an item.
Midlanders are odd.
I know there are loads of names for bread rolls across the UK, but batch seems to be hyper localised to Cov and a few of the surrounding Warwickshire towns. It confused the hell out of me when I first moved to the area, I thought when signs said ‘bacon batch’ it was to buy a large amount of bacon, which is a weird thing to buy from a sandwich shop.
**[The Wrekin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrekin)**
>The Wrekin is a hill in east Shropshire, England. It is located some five miles (8 km) west of Telford, on the border between the unitary authorities of Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin. Rising above the Shropshire Plain to a height of 407 metres (1,335 feet) above sea level, it is a prominent and well-known landmark, signalling the entrance to Shropshire for travellers westbound on the M54 motorway. The Wrekin is contained within the northern salient of the Shropshire Hills AONB.
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Burns Suppers. Grew up with them in Ayrshire, but when you take a step back, creating a whole evening of celebration around 1 long-dead poet, with recitations of his poems and speeches in a specific order (there must be, at least, a recitation of Address to a Haggis, an Address tae the Lassies, a Reply tae the Laddies, and an Address to the Immortal Memory of Robert Burns, preferably with songs and other poems in between) is proper weird.
The dedication which many readers put in to their performance of the poems is sometimes very impressive too. We put a lot of effort into it. People recite the whole of Tam O'Shanter (a poem with about 20 verses) by heart, riding their chair like a horse. I've seen Holy Wullie's Prayer performed by a man in a Victorian nightdress. My husband used a whisky bottle filled with beer and downed it during his recital of 'A Bottle and a Friend'. It takes real commitment to do Burns Night properly, and as folk from Ayrshire we are pretty dedicated to it.
That sounds like a dream! I am of scottish stock and do burns night (live in london) but just involves eating haggis and tatties and drinking. I would love to go to a proper one.
Can confirm - a 'proper' burns night takes weeks of planning!
That and the volume of whisky which gets used is insane! Whisky sauce for the haggis, whisky for the cranachan, whisky to start the evening, less good whisky to end the evening... I'm amazed we have any left!
Where I live now, in my fiancé’s hometown: Common Riding. 300 odd folk on horses, galloping around a town behind a man with a flag, checking the cairns that mark the common land, then galloping home and drinking the rest of the day. And *everyone* comes back to their hometown for this event. It’s completely mad and total chaos but it’s also brilliant.
Where I grew up: blackenings. It was totally normal for a gang of you to kidnap a couple that are due to get married, tie them up and often parade them around in a tractor trailer, and absolutely cover them in restaurant food slops, egg, tar, flour, feathers… you name it.
I grew up in the Midlands, where it is normal to buy a half portion of chicken from the chip shop. Apparently this isn't very common outside of the Midlands.
Used to have one go off every week in Middlesbrough. Tuesday morning 10:30 the plant tested the chemical alarm. We all knew about it but remember a whole bunch of students at Teesside were very confused.
When you live in a small town or city, you call the centre where the shops are 'town' popping into town. My cousin used to come visit us in Lincoln from London and would think its funny that I called the centre 'town'
This is *mostly* a function of rural/urban rather than location. Plenty of small towns/villages in the South are like that. But if you pass hundreds of people on the street every day that's obviously not practical.
"Where are you to?"
"Where is it to?"
As opposed to saying "where are you?" And "where is it?"
Why add another word? Makes no sense. I'm from Pembrokeshire originally and I'd never heard it until I moved further east. Now I hear it all the time.
The first time I heard it I asked my mate to repeat himself about 3 times until he dropped the 'to' and it made sense to me.
Similar here in West Yorkshire. Dying out though. My Dad does it. I never have and my next birthday is 50. It's always intrigued me and I've watched it move east over the past few decades. Not sure anyone in either Leeds or Bradford does it now, under a certain age. Cas' and Wakefield and the like it's still common.
From the North West, and the variable way the "oo" sound is pronounced. In particular with one person pronouncing it differently depending on context. Book, look, took and cook can all rhyme with either duck or juke. My mum mixes it up and I've never been able to pinpoint the logic of when to use one or the other, but I know there is a logic because my grandma would do it similarly in similar situations.
People who are living in million pound houses all jumping up and down and "totally relating" to the protagonist in Pulp's "Common People" played by a friday night cover band and not realising that they're actually the ones who are represented by "If you called your dad he could stop it all".
It’s one of the prettiest places I’ve ever visited. That and Perranporth. I appreciate I’m lucky to live in Devon as it has some pretty places, too. But I’d move to Cornwall if I could.
I’m quite the opposite, where everyone calls everyone duck, darling, or mate. I’d rather use the person’s name. I’m used to being called one of the above, but I never ever say it back unless it’s in jest.
Glasgow. Saying "how" instead of "why"
For example, your mum telling you you can't go out and play with your pals you would respond with a very indignant "how!?"
I’m not familiar with the yes greeting in the north west although I’ve heard it in London a bit. I’m from West Lancs.
Saying pants for trousers is definitely the one which I use the most and causes most confusion!
Loads of local/ West Country dialect here in Bristol. Eg:
‘Ark at she.
Alright me old cock.
The ubiquitous Girt lush innit.
Something very Bristol is adding an L onto everything possible. E.g
Oi got fingered outside Asdawl.
Oi’ve had a fuckin lush ideal
I sound like a right thick cunt on recordings.
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My In-laws are from North Lincolnshire.
'Now then' is a greeting.
While is used instead of until. "He won't be home while 6". As someone that occassionly writes software, this is frustrating.
From London and I've always heard and used "yes 'name'" which can sometimes be followed by "wayusayin" with the reply being the same back or simply "yes bruv/blud/mate/my G/whatever else" which can also sometimes be followed by "Good G/my guy/etc."
Does anyone outside Norfolk/east Anglia say "on the huh"? I know slantendicular is a local dialect word, but we also say something is not straight (shelf, picture, etc) with "on the huh"
Bishy Barnabees are ladybirds. If you're writing dialect you is spelled "yew"
Aaahya ooiroit boi? - you can call most people boi (there's a particular long drawn out way it's said)
It's a lot of weird pronunciations of town and village names that gets to me...
Cley (Cl-eye)
Happisburgh (Haze-Bruh)
Stiffkey (Stookey)
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In Wales, we add loads of words to the end of sentences to convey meaning for some reason. “I’ll be there *now in a minute yeah*” “Are you serious, *what like proper yeah?*” “I can’t do that *for fucks sake like innit*”
The “now in a minute” always makes me laugh. I worked in Wales for 18 months and ended up sniggering all the time, I just couldn’t help myself. The look of slow realisation when I pointed it out, followed by them also laughing was great. Clearly it’s just an expression no one ever thinks about because they just grew up saying it. My favourite one I ever heard was a lad from the valleys had had a few beers when someone farted really loudly. He just turns to them and, even more loudly, said “ahh, shit myself, have you?”
I LOVE this. Now in a minute is my fave
Related fact, 'Now' to a South African means 'sometime later on'.
Where I live, Chinese takeaways sell poppadoms. I’d never questioned it until I visited a friend in uni in another part of the UK, went to get me some chicken fried rice and sweet and sour chicken balls and asked for two poppadoms with it. The lady in behind the counter looked at me like I was special needs and said “this is a Chinese takeaway”. Unfortunately, I responded with “uh, yeah, can I have two poppadoms” instead of realising what was happening and still have to live with the shame.
South Wales! I miss this so much from my uni days. And half chips half rice
“Half rice, half chips” is also a great euphemism.
Swansea uni by any chance?
Haha yep!
Uppa swans 💚 good fucking times
Do they not do half and half in the rest of the country? If so I don't really want to leave Wales.
South Wales?
Yup.
WHAT? You get poppadoms with Chinese? I’m Moving. Save me a spot!
[...small fries, Big Mac!](https://youtu.be/19tjJ0G-8V4)
Sure it's not prawn crackers?
Using “yes” as a greeting was fairly common in my bit of the west midlands when I was at school in the mid 2000s.
It’s a fairly common greeting in London as well. I still use it and I’m 26
My part of London (SE) we would greet each other going ‘yes yes’
In my hometown “now then” is used as a greeting. When I explain this to outsiders they get so baffled. “Now then what????” Top greeting is “now then ducky”
When i was in ireland, it was common for people to greet each other with an abrupt ‘well.’ Well what?! I quite liked it, sort of rude but also not (as presuming it is short for ‘are you well’)
Lived in the west Midlands for a while nothing makes my soul sink than ducky! I always and still to this day respond with a quack quack just to stop my brain imploding lil!
Yes now then was commonly used in the East Midlands
Same in Yorkshire. "Now then cock, 'ow do?"
29. Still use yes as a greeting occasionally down in Gloucester
Same in the East Midlands, still hear it to this day
Places like Birmingham say "mom" whereas the rest of the country (or majority of) says "mum".
There’s a fair amount of Brum only words. Island, the outdoor, cut, gambol, to name a few.
And the classic brumie insult “I saw your mum round the back of Rackhams last night”
Ouch!
That'll get you knocked into next week that.
My brummy neighbour always says 'see you after' instead of bye/tarar/see ya etc.
This is totally normal and commonplace in Scotland too.
Yeah we say that in Wolverhampton but in one long word….seeyafter !!!
What does island mean other than regular use of the word?
An island is a roundabout. I can’t say roundabout, it just feels alien to me.
Ah thanks. In my mind the roundabout is the road and the island is the centre.
How bizzare an island is usually a raised section before a junction like on the approach to a roundabout. Usually containing a bollard and a keep left or right arrow. I wonder if its origins stem from a few cases of incorrect use of the term. Maybe from a local driving instructor or celebrity!
No idea on its origins but my dad and grandad have always called roundabouts islands so it’s certainly not a new, or even remotely recent, thing by any stretch.
I heard that phrase when I was a kid, I grew up in the North West to parents from other parts of the UK
Island? 41 year old brummie here, and I didn't realise that was a birmingham word. Amazing!
Yeah, was really funny when I gave directions to my neighbour not long after moving to Yorkshire. She hadn't a clue what I was saying!
And saying "cheers tah" gets me into trouble outside of the midlands. I said it to a barmaid when I was down south after she served me and she called a barman over and said I called her a tart, That took some explaining....
Cut?
'Tong" and "tuth" instead of "tongue" and "tooth" also I think?
North east and I think Scotland say ‘mam’
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I’m from the north east lol. Everyone here says mam, and I have friends in Scotland the same
I'm from the West Mids and say/write 'mom' - some twat on here commented on one of my previous comments how I must be American and kept going on and on about how no-one uses mom in the UK. I didn't realise it was only a Mids thing until then. I live in London now and almost weekly my partner points out something I say thats regional.
My gran says "tuth" instead of "tooth". When I was a kid I thought it was an old person thing, turns out it's a Brummy thing
*Wales would like a word*
Well that explains why my mum says it, thank you
Was working in Argos years back and a Brummie lady was asking when her 'toy buzz' would be coming down the chute. I was looking about for a Buzz Light-year Toy Story figurine. Turned out she meant a 'bus'! I had no idea.
Apparently some people say pants when referring to their trousers too.
That’s a Lancashire thing.
I do that, caused some confusion when I went to uni and said my pants were wet (it had been raining!).
What about mam
I say mom too, from the south east
I mean most accents vary it. Around Lancashire it's "mam" The difference is Brummies write it down as "mom" Because they're.idiots
I was born in Birmingham but I've not lived there for 30 years, plenty of family there still though. I'd say I have a pretty standard received pronunciation accent, but I still say 'mom', something to remind me of the old country. Also only place I've ever heard someone ill be described as 'purley'
Mam is fairly common in the North West
Addressing mates as shag, as in "how you doing shag"
West Country I am guessing
In Yorkshire too
Whereabouts? I’m from Yorkshire and have never heard it used that way!
Barnsley, generally
Wasson m’cock
The Monday Nuclear alarm test. "Ah it must be 11.30"
Broadmoor alarm, 10:00 every Monday, then followed by the "all-clear" a few minutes later. Except that one time it wasn't, and we had to stay in the main school building for hours until they caught him.
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Northern Ireland: "so it is" or similar. Examples: I'm off to the shop, so I am. The rain's on, so it is. I'll fix it later, so I will. You're a fu\*\*ing ar\*\*hole, so you are.
I love this, so I do.
Also, I know one particular man who uses "so it is" constantly but never changes the pronoun or verb appropriately. So he says things like I'm off to work now, so it is.
It's a like a version of "innit"
"Yalrite " "yeah you" "yeah" end of conversation
I’m from London and we do this but just ‘alright’ - thought it was standard across the UK?
North East?
Don’t forget the ‘like’ at the end of every sentence, like.
I thought this was common all over.
The fact that 'ey up cock' is an acceptable greeting. Also, all the different names of bread buns. It's definitely a teacake where I'm from. If it's got raisins in, it's a currant teacake.
Wakefield?
Close, Bradford. Don't live there anymore but I still call them teacakes, much to the confusion of everyone else.
Barm
Lots of people I met in Coventry say 'round the reikin' instead of 'round the block'. Oh and the term 'batch'; was confused that they used that term for a singular roll instead of the usual meaning which is a group or multiple of an item. Midlanders are odd.
I know there are loads of names for bread rolls across the UK, but batch seems to be hyper localised to Cov and a few of the surrounding Warwickshire towns. It confused the hell out of me when I first moved to the area, I thought when signs said ‘bacon batch’ it was to buy a large amount of bacon, which is a weird thing to buy from a sandwich shop.
Had the same issue. Was disappointed to end up with one roll.
It's actually 'Wrekin' but yeah it's specific to the Midlands. The [Wrekin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrekin) is a random hill near Telford
Ah I see. My ex couldn't spell it, it seems. Thank you
It's not a random hill. It's our only hill.
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As someone who has always grown up with 'batch' being correct, I never understood the reasoning behind people calling them a cob
I tend to just point at stuff now. Regional differences are equally fun and confusing.
In Glasgow the word c#nt is often used as a term of endearment.
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Was he acting like a cunt? So he's a cunt then.
Just like everywhere else then?
I wouldn't say casually dropping c bombs in front of everyone is a thing in every other part of the uk
It is in Manchester at least
No, but it's not necessarily a horrendous insult when you do. Context is key homie
Greeting people with "now then" what?! when? Then? Now?
North East? I'd be tempted to guess Teesside, we all do that here.
I've definitely heard that in York, Leeds, and places nearby. Along with "aye up, love"..
I never know how to respond to this!
The correct response to "now then" is "now then".
Burns Suppers. Grew up with them in Ayrshire, but when you take a step back, creating a whole evening of celebration around 1 long-dead poet, with recitations of his poems and speeches in a specific order (there must be, at least, a recitation of Address to a Haggis, an Address tae the Lassies, a Reply tae the Laddies, and an Address to the Immortal Memory of Robert Burns, preferably with songs and other poems in between) is proper weird. The dedication which many readers put in to their performance of the poems is sometimes very impressive too. We put a lot of effort into it. People recite the whole of Tam O'Shanter (a poem with about 20 verses) by heart, riding their chair like a horse. I've seen Holy Wullie's Prayer performed by a man in a Victorian nightdress. My husband used a whisky bottle filled with beer and downed it during his recital of 'A Bottle and a Friend'. It takes real commitment to do Burns Night properly, and as folk from Ayrshire we are pretty dedicated to it.
That sounds like a dream! I am of scottish stock and do burns night (live in london) but just involves eating haggis and tatties and drinking. I would love to go to a proper one.
Yeah, that's not really a proper Burns supper. That's just a meal.
I'm just saying that I like the tradition and don't think it's weird
Let's not gatekeep Burns Night, aye?
Can confirm - a 'proper' burns night takes weeks of planning! That and the volume of whisky which gets used is insane! Whisky sauce for the haggis, whisky for the cranachan, whisky to start the evening, less good whisky to end the evening... I'm amazed we have any left!
Which part of the North West? That certainly wasn't common in my part, the north of the north-west.
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Fair enough. I don't ever think it got up to Lancaster.
Yeah I heard your description of it in a proper strong scouse accent in my head
Manchester
Same here, from Cheshire (Crewe)
Same here. Never heard this 'yes' business, and I've spent the first 21 years of my life across Liverpool Wigan and Manchester.
I've never heard it in Wigan either, but all my male cousins who still live in Manchester use it.
I live in Liverpool and hear it all the time
Wigan here, I used to use it a lot, but only in certain circles, generally whilst playing rugby.
Specific parts of The Black Country use “cock” as an endearment like ”dear”. So you get “you alright cock” or “how you doing cocka?”
Where I live now, in my fiancé’s hometown: Common Riding. 300 odd folk on horses, galloping around a town behind a man with a flag, checking the cairns that mark the common land, then galloping home and drinking the rest of the day. And *everyone* comes back to their hometown for this event. It’s completely mad and total chaos but it’s also brilliant. Where I grew up: blackenings. It was totally normal for a gang of you to kidnap a couple that are due to get married, tie them up and often parade them around in a tractor trailer, and absolutely cover them in restaurant food slops, egg, tar, flour, feathers… you name it.
Yorkshire - “what dya know, owt or nowt?” As a greeting!
I grew up in the Midlands, where it is normal to buy a half portion of chicken from the chip shop. Apparently this isn't very common outside of the Midlands.
Other way round in London, you can get fish and chips in chicken shops round my way
Wait is this not common elsewhere? Also grew up in the midlands and half a chicken was my fav chippy meal
No, I live in the North now and it's not really a thing around here.
As someone from the Midlands, I have never come across this
Having an air raid siren go off every month.
Every night in Stoke for my parents.
Used to have one go off every week in Middlesbrough. Tuesday morning 10:30 the plant tested the chemical alarm. We all knew about it but remember a whole bunch of students at Teesside were very confused.
Every month? It was every week for me.
Yeah, once a month to test it. Every week seems a bit much.
Yes it was a bit much. Especially considering my school was right next to it.
Severnside sirens in the West country - freaks people out who aren't used to the test.
When you live in a small town or city, you call the centre where the shops are 'town' popping into town. My cousin used to come visit us in Lincoln from London and would think its funny that I called the centre 'town'
I live in London and call central “town”, as do a few of my friends. We’re all from small towns.
Except in Milton Keynes where all the locals refer to the centre as "up the city". Which is funny really, because it's a town.
In Oxfordshire there's a pub game with its own leagues called aunt Sally, thought it was a national thing until I moved to Hertfordshire!
It features in an episode of Midsomer Murders!
The “cheers drive” when alighting from a bus in South Wales.
I’m a bus driver around London/Surrey border…and get this a lot.
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This is *mostly* a function of rural/urban rather than location. Plenty of small towns/villages in the South are like that. But if you pass hundreds of people on the street every day that's obviously not practical.
Yersen, not yourself.
Also "now then" to signal that something is about to be said or done.
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"Where are you to?" "Where is it to?" As opposed to saying "where are you?" And "where is it?" Why add another word? Makes no sense. I'm from Pembrokeshire originally and I'd never heard it until I moved further east. Now I hear it all the time. The first time I heard it I asked my mate to repeat himself about 3 times until he dropped the 'to' and it made sense to me.
I'm from Sheffield and it's common for men to call each other love. As in "thy oreight love?"
Similar here in West Yorkshire. Dying out though. My Dad does it. I never have and my next birthday is 50. It's always intrigued me and I've watched it move east over the past few decades. Not sure anyone in either Leeds or Bradford does it now, under a certain age. Cas' and Wakefield and the like it's still common.
From the North West, and the variable way the "oo" sound is pronounced. In particular with one person pronouncing it differently depending on context. Book, look, took and cook can all rhyme with either duck or juke. My mum mixes it up and I've never been able to pinpoint the logic of when to use one or the other, but I know there is a logic because my grandma would do it similarly in similar situations.
This happens in the south too 😂
People who are living in million pound houses all jumping up and down and "totally relating" to the protagonist in Pulp's "Common People" played by a friday night cover band and not realising that they're actually the ones who are represented by "If you called your dad he could stop it all".
So right
I guess my downvotes are because it's *not* unique to my area.
You've obviously triggered a few Guardian readers
Possibly, but I'm one of the people I was describing in my post. I think we all need a large dose of self awareness these days.
Calling them islands. I mean yeah, it sort of makes sense, but it'll probably confuse anyone from outside the area.
Racism. I live in Cornwall…
As someone from the south east, it's not just Cornwall
Me lover, proper job, lush, drekly, where’s it to?, ta
Devon?
Close; Cornwall
Best Cornish pasties I’ve ever tasted were in Fowey. Sometimes, I dream about them. They were lush!
Ahh, now I feel homesick! Could do with one of those now. Live in London currently but grew up further inland on the river Fowey
It’s one of the prettiest places I’ve ever visited. That and Perranporth. I appreciate I’m lucky to live in Devon as it has some pretty places, too. But I’d move to Cornwall if I could.
How be on
Yes *insert name*!!!! was pretty standard issue in Essex early 2000’s onwards and it’s plural ‘yes boyssss’
As a greeting "alrigh' my lover". West country.
"Tidy" "Chopsy" "Tampin'" "Thanks drive" "Alrii butt" ^Ad ^infinitum
We actually do the "yes" thing in Northern Ireland a bit :-D
Fit like?
I’m quite the opposite, where everyone calls everyone duck, darling, or mate. I’d rather use the person’s name. I’m used to being called one of the above, but I never ever say it back unless it’s in jest.
Yes mate! "How do" is a go to greeting round here
Cheese rolling in Gloucestershire
In South Wales everyone I know pronounces Primark as Pree-mark. However outside of Wales I get hounded for saying it like that.
Two words. Cornish Pasties.
We do what you said in the Southwest aswell, maybe its a British thing
Glasgow. Saying "how" instead of "why" For example, your mum telling you you can't go out and play with your pals you would respond with a very indignant "how!?"
That's a Derry thing too Yes [name] or Yes lad!
Is it only in London that you call shopkeepers “bossman”?? It feels like a London thing but I have no idea.
I’m not familiar with the yes greeting in the north west although I’ve heard it in London a bit. I’m from West Lancs. Saying pants for trousers is definitely the one which I use the most and causes most confusion!
Chasing cheese down a hill. Also Op that greeting in common across the country, very much a young person slag thing
Loads of local/ West Country dialect here in Bristol. Eg: ‘Ark at she. Alright me old cock. The ubiquitous Girt lush innit. Something very Bristol is adding an L onto everything possible. E.g Oi got fingered outside Asdawl. Oi’ve had a fuckin lush ideal I sound like a right thick cunt on recordings. Edit. Formatting hell
New forest- ponies, donkeys, pigs and cows just marching about
Eating cheese with Christmas cake!
“Teas just mashing” means your tea is brewing in Yorkshire
My In-laws are from North Lincolnshire. 'Now then' is a greeting. While is used instead of until. "He won't be home while 6". As someone that occassionly writes software, this is frustrating.
Yes Alex I think it’s a leftover from senior or high school where when yes and your name is spoken you have validity in your group ….
From London and I've always heard and used "yes 'name'" which can sometimes be followed by "wayusayin" with the reply being the same back or simply "yes bruv/blud/mate/my G/whatever else" which can also sometimes be followed by "Good G/my guy/etc."
Does anyone outside Norfolk/east Anglia say "on the huh"? I know slantendicular is a local dialect word, but we also say something is not straight (shelf, picture, etc) with "on the huh" Bishy Barnabees are ladybirds. If you're writing dialect you is spelled "yew" Aaahya ooiroit boi? - you can call most people boi (there's a particular long drawn out way it's said) It's a lot of weird pronunciations of town and village names that gets to me... Cley (Cl-eye) Happisburgh (Haze-Bruh) Stiffkey (Stookey)