Expressions from your part of the world

Crusty rolls here in Brum are crusty cobs.
We've been into our local Black Country town this morning. I was in a clothes shop and a woman was buying little girls clothes
She said to her friend 'Er's gonna look noice in them ay ah?' Which means 'She's going to look nice in those isn't she?'

Jitty or Jit - alleyway

Mad as a box of frogs

Me duck

Batch - a bread roll

From various parts of the Midlands

Down here : My lovely

In Liverpool when it’s hot they’re ‘sweating cobs’.
When they’re in a bad mood they’ve ‘got a cob on’.
When hungry they’ll buy a cob at the bakery and eat it with butter.
No rhyme nor reason but amusing anyway.

Clarty can also mean 'in the worst possible taste' as in - she looks really clarty with all that make up, peroxide hair and chandelier earrings.

Thank you Lucca
That is currently the perfect adjective for my cat

FannyCornforth

Lucca what does clarty mean?

Dirty muddy gooey sticky !

Mad as a cut snake
Running around like a blue arsed fly
Kangaroos loose in the top paddock
Charge like a wounded bull
Bogan
Wannabe
Cute little possum
Yucky
See ya wouldn’t wanna beya
Bushie
Townee
Collins street farmers
Toorak tractors etc

Kent, (can't)
Shent (shan't)
Enna gunna (I'm not going to)

The BCLM is just up the road from us. We like to see the whole site evolving as time goes by. Fascinating place. I remember several of the buildings in the original places round here. It is now joined by the Canal and River Trust hub.

I absolutely adore the BCLM
I could happily live there ?

Yes Fanny it is another language in the Black Country. My DGM lived there.

When we visited the Black Country Museum a few years back I was so emotional as it took me back to my childhood hearing the locals talk. The humour is just brilliant. I’m welling up now. I was lucky to have a happy childhood and I want to time travel and experience it again.

More from Cornwall:

Dreckly
Ansom

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

Predictive text keeps altering these ??

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Lucca what does clarty mean?

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

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

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

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!

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.