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Juice, sweeties, and local language
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So, I've moved to the other end of the country to where I used to be and am also working offshore.
Today the whole platform got 'Juice and sweeties'.
Now, being a southern pansy, I thought this would have meant fruit juice and gummy sweet type things.
We actually got a can of fizzy drink and a chocolate bar.
Turns out:
Juice = fizzy drinks
Sweeties = chocolate
Anyone else got regional/local terms for stuff?
Today the whole platform got 'Juice and sweeties'.
Now, being a southern pansy, I thought this would have meant fruit juice and gummy sweet type things.
We actually got a can of fizzy drink and a chocolate bar.
Turns out:
Juice = fizzy drinks
Sweeties = chocolate
Anyone else got regional/local terms for stuff?
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nesh = always cold
Didn't realise this was a Plymouth thing until I was asked "what does "ta" mean?"
I think 'ta' is something said from all over, it is here in Essex anyway
I've never heard anyone from other cities say it.
ta is said pretty much everywhere i think.
i remember having to explain what nowt and owt meant to my australian friend. nothing and anything just in case people didnt know.
We say it int north.
Ayup=hello
Twitchel=alleyway
I say it all the bloody time
Aye = yes
Both fairly common scots I think.
I get told off a lot for not pronouncing five and nine properly, In my accent it's pronounced faaaave and naaaane :d
Yeah, I get told its fourteen not forteen.
Baw - ball
Bawbag - testicle
Coupon - face
Bunnet - hat
Pished - drunk
Auld - old
Jammy - lucky
Stoatin' - varies with context. For example, the rain came stoatin' doon, I was just stoatin' around
Jakie - alcoholic/druggie/nutter
Rocket - nutter
Bam/Bampot - nutter
Radge - nutter
The Scots are to nutters as Eskimos are to snow
Then of course youve got the cockney rhyming slang that me n my family sometimes use such as 'boatrace' or 'oxford' for 'face'
Spadger? Chelping? Lakin'? Coit? Fettle? Mitherin'. (that's penis/term of endearment; talking, esp. answering back; playing; coat; clean; bothering). No, me neither.
Not to mention the use of words you recognise in totally different formats, like 'spice' for sweets, or 'roaring' for crying. I've lived here four years now, and I still wouldn't say I'm fluent. I speak reasonable conversational Barnsley
In Leeds the only thing that used to confuse people from elsewhere was 'ginnel' (alleyway).
And I thought 'ta' was a northern thing? I've definitely heard it used most often in Yorkshire/Lancashire and the surroundings!
I hear the word coit used here, mainly by older people, like my dad who will also say stuff like 'up there int thills'.
I agree. If someone says juice, I assume they mean a drink made with fruit.
I'd use both. To me, a ginnel has high fenced sides, while a snicket is open or has lower sides!
Gertlush - great
luvver - affectionate term for pretty much everyone...
Norfolk specific:
Bishy-barney-bee - Ladybird
Does anyone know what goldering and laughing means (its a norfolk thing)? Its something my great cousin used to say a lot.
If you think juice is confusing, what about teacake? A teacake is a white bread bun, although Southern pansies erroneously think that a teacake has fruit in it.
I thought it was a northern thing, too, I got it from my Yorkshire/Cheshire family.
Mardy tends to confuse my more southern friends. Means something similar to moody / antsy.
And what's a muffin?
And what does a scone look like?
And what on earth is a buttery?
There's two - the cake type thing and the thing you have for breakfast that you toast. (I know - it's crap description!)
The cafe price list at work usefully has both listed as muffin, with completely different prices.
Which numpty gave two similar products the same name, now really.
The only butteries I've come across have been posh Oxford canteens
Ta used to make me think North, it now makes me think of Gap Yah.
Yes