My grandfather migrated to Australia as a very small child with his family in the early 1900s. He came from Stockport near Manchester. The men in his family were felthatters for many generations and the unmarried women worked in the mills. My grandfather was badly injured in WW2 and died when I was 9. Some of my few memories of him are words. He called me "snooks" and the term "spiflicate" meaning to chastise someone have come down the family. Are these local or regional words? I would love to hear from GNers from those areas.
Cherrytree there was a large common in front of the Barley Mow, a 'chase' nearby and a large estate belonging to a Lord, now NT. Is it the same Barley Mow I wonder? I can't remember how long it is since I went there
Your right Varian not square bread! a plain loaf with lovely dark top and bottom crust. Perfect for Ayrshire bacon sandwich. We called the outside slices the ootie
Growing up in Glasgow, the shoes we wore for gym lessons were called sand-shoes, but we called them "saunies". They were kept in a cloth drawstring bag called a "sauniebag".
Ginnel in my part of West Yorkshire, but snicket in OH's North Yorkshire.
The 'gip' I mentioned, meaning the same as to gag (you know, when you are eating and something nearly makes you sick?), has the same 'g' sound as the 'g' of give, so nothing like jip or gyp. I know it is still in use as i heard it on Emmerdale last week, even though that's set in a different part of Yorkshire from the one I'm from
I’m from Staffordshire and they were pumps. A snicket was a narrow passage between terraced houses A grey tide eel is Bristolian meaning a great idea. When I first moved down here I couldn’t understand a word of the local speech Pikelets are definitely the thin ones. Crumpets seem to be English muffins on American ships
As a Lancashire lass married to a Yorkshire man - in our house we have crumpets (me) but pikelets (him), scones rhyming with ones (me) but scones rhyming with owns (him). But no matter what they're called or how they're pronounced - we enjoy them with lots of butter My Granny used to send me out for the "messages" - ie to get some shopping.
‘cor blast bor my knee is given me gyp’ that’s really silly Suffolk also we use Mardy meaning whingy a Mardle is a conversation or a chat, Mawther is a woman
Monica your spiflicating reference made me wonder whether that’s where the term ‘spiffing’, meaning something lovely or really good, comes from? Another word we hear a lot in Yorkshire is “nithering” (usually pronounced minus the ‘g’) to indicate that it is very cold.