Expressions from your part of the world

Right on
Proper job
(Cornwall)

I live in the Midlands NanKate as you know, and recognise all those words.

Loffin
Blairtin
Saft
Tay
The cut
Kaylied
Bonce
Cocka
Donny

I could go on .

Jan does donny mean hand?
My Nan used to say it to my cousin (when he was a babby!)
I thought that she'd made it up

The cut! ?
That brings back memories!

My lover
My ‘andsome

Oh that’s Cornwall

Yes Fanny donny is hand haven't heard it in a long time.

A word used round here (East Midlands) is 'a-were' with the emphasis very much on the second syllable. I've spelled that phonetically as I've never seen it written down. It expresses astonishment, if someone said to you, "I went to the moon yesterday" or something equally daft, you could reply, "A-were, you're making that up!"

I hadn't heard it for ages until I returned home when a nephew recalled something daft he heard. He didn't believe it and was so lost for words (pleasant, but not the most eloquent of chaps) he said, "A-were, I mean, well, um, I mean, well, um, a-were, a-were!"

I've never heard this anywhere else.

Same as youself NanKate and NannyJan53.
But iv`e always said Danny not Donny for the hands.

NannyJan53

I live in the Midlands NanKate as you know, and recognise all those words.

Loffin
Blairtin
Saft
Tay
The cut
Kaylied
Bonce
Cocka
Donny

I could go on .

All these plus those in the OP. Donny is hand, used when speaking to children. I used to say it to my DSs when they were little: 'C'mere, let's wash yer donnies'.

NannyJ. We used to call sherbert Kaylie. It was yellow and made my finger change colour. I ate it from a cone shaped paper bag. Happy Days.

Yes, we used to call that Kaylie, it was like yellow granulated sugar that you dipped a lolly in or your fingers Kaylied means drunk!

Yes we had Kaylie, fizzy pop, laking (playing), spice (sweets) there are many more which may come later. These are from Yorkshire.

Clarty
While ( I’ll be at work while eight o’clock)
‘T. ( I don’t like looking in’t mirror these days)

Duck
Chick
Mardy
Nesh
Donny
Kaylye (sic?)
Munna
Wunna
Dunna
Inna

Whitewave when I first moved to Devon and the petrol pump attendant called me 'My lover' I was quite startled!
Maid (for a young girl)
Boy as a form of greeting for a male of any age

Lucca what does clarty mean?

I still get called Maid sometimes
And the evenings will start getting dimpsy earlier now.

I am a Brummie born and bred. Still here. Many of the above are familiar to me. A few years ago we moved very close to The Black Country. I had great difficulty understanding people.
When I asked for something in a shop, the assistant said 'We ay got none'. We heard 'We'm gooin on holiday'. Fascinating.

Hoo ist 'a? (how are you?)
As gan hyem (I am going home)
It's cowped owwer ( its fallen over)
Ahm nithered (I'm cold)

Those are just a few, I could go on, but won't.

We use clarty too. It means muddy, sticky. A state of being when you're a bairn!

Kate and yet people think that Birmingham and the Black Country are one and the same, and interchangeable words.
To be honest, I've given up trying to challenge / explain it

When my brummie born DH went into hospital in the Black country somebody said to him yam posh aye ye, 1st and only ever time he's been called posh.

My daughter said to her then boyfriend - who lived on the Isle of Man - "Shall we go indoors?" and he had never heard that expression. BTW we are a South East London family.

More from Cornwall:

Dreckly
Ansom

From Derbyshire:
Got a bag on
Taitered
Kecks
Mankey
Stop mitherin’

Predictive text keeps altering these ??