Different Areas - Different names for things

I remember someone telling me once that 'starving' in some parts of the north meant 'very cold'.

I say breakfast, lunch and tea - which I think is a result of having one Northern and one Southern parent. This still confuses H when he tells me he is hungry and I respond by 'making tea'.

When you break your leg, what do you have put on it? OH says a plaster cast, I say a pot.

First time i said this he had genuinely never heard of it and hadn't a clue what i was on about, and I couldn't beleive he'd never heard it before - i wouldn't ever consider calling is a cast or a plaster cast - always been a pot.

Is this a north/south thing?

Scrike for cry.

Yup - Pot gets said round here, when I broke my foot in the summer I told my mum (southerner) that I had a pot on - she honestly thought I'd gone mental and put a pot/pan on my head or something

Daddy Mini says Pot. When I broke my elbow he wanted to know why I couldnt have a pot on it. Very confused MrMini who is firmly from southern parents wasnt sure how to answer that one.

Oh good, not just me then and apparently a very northern thing!

OH thought i meant a plant pot. Yes, because that's what u do when u break u leg... stick it in a plant pot ?

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I thought of this yesterday... I call a runny egg a 'chucky' egg, which some of my friends have never heard of. Not sure if it's a regional thing?

I always thought it was only Stokey's that said Nesh. I wouldn't use it to mean cold though, I'd use it to mean a person who feels the cold more than others, so if everyone else is warm and someone can feel a draft, they are nesh.

I would call a brook a cut

H laughs at me for saying "we need a loaf" and says the word loaf on it's own is old ladyish.

I'm trying to think of some..

Oh, I call a dressing gown a housecoat and get laughed at for it by H2B.

He says breakfast, dinner, tea. I say breakfast, lunch, dinner.

I've always called spare batter from the chippy 'scraps' (lived in Peterborough all my life). Moved to a small town in Northamptonshire 6 years ago and asked for scraps and she just stared at me like I had cheeseburgers on my ears or something ?

SassyT - intrigued about where you live. I live in Northants too.

Thrapston!

Ah rightio - I'm t'other side of Northants!

I say this too. Maybe we have the same nan!

Well if we are then you have some explaining to do... Where was my wedding invite?! ?

I must admit when I saw your wedding photo's I did have a look to see if I could spot anyone ?

In liverpool we say lolly ice instead of ice lolly, barm cake, "takie" for giving someone a lift on the back of your bike. Theres probably hundres more I'll have a think.

What part of Essex are you from!? Never heard things pronounced in this way!

pikelets and crumpets are different! crumpets are thick, pikelets are very thin crumpets...

Ahh but Sange, a stottie is a different bread product in itself! (all bow down and hail the mighty stottie)

I've thought of a couple.

I say 'seatie' for when you give someone a lift on your bike and 'hoisties' are trousers that are too short. Husband says 'backie' and 'ankle swingers' as his version.

I thought "nesh" was a Yorkshire phrase - to mean someone a bit wimpy. A "housecoat" is what my Mum used to wear over her clothes when she was cleaning. It was a button-up quilted affair, in pink if I remember correctly. Definitely not a dressing gown.

Some from Cornwall:

Chacking-thirsty (H looked at me as if I had 2 heads when he heard me say that for the first time!)

Dreckly - at some point in the future, but not immediately

Proper - satisfactory

In my neck of the woods that is a tenfoot!

I cant remember who it was that mentioned parmesan in N Yorks but is that not just a parmo that has gone a bit further down south than newcastle?

I'd call the bike one a croggy!

crumpet vs piklet - I agree with footlong and cricks

bread roll is a normal sized on and a really big one is a stotty

Sassy T - everyone as scraps round here and if your chips are from a takeaway as opposed to a chippy they come with chip spice, we also get pattys from the chippy but they dont seem to exist outside of Yorkshire

I would call the bike one a "backie"

I say "backie" and trousers that are too short are "ankle swingers" or "jack-ups"

I call them Half-masts (usually comes with the saying "has his budgie died?"). H says "have your trousers had a row with your shoes?

Backie and ankle flappers for me!

We have patties here in London Town but Caribbean style ones!

We have them here too. Yummers!

Backa and budgies for me!