Local language

ps I'm glad to hear it is still going

I am having a guess - does it begin with B?

I don't think I have been there since before I met DH - I went with a previous boyfriend
where is he now, I wonder.

Jalima yes that's the one

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

It had to be a plain bread wrapper, cherry , not a pan loaf wrapper. That would have been too posh.

Varian always called 'yer saunies' by my DF.

A jeely piece wrapped in a square loaf wrapper.

Translate as a jam sandwich wrapped in a Scottish bread wrapper

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".

I used to know a pub called the ring of bells. It was where they sold beer by the pound.
The old village pound was in front of the pub

Jalima I live in a village near to a BarleyMow pub.

Was there a large common in front of it?

My DM used to get 'all mithered'.

A grey tide eel is Bristolian meaning a great idea.
I am going to get the in-laws to say that!!

Where i come from, we call a spade a spade and a toilet a toilet

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.

At school it was called the bogs.

‘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

What about words for the lavatory? Or is that a dialect word?
One Gran called it the WC, the other , the netty.

Yorkshire is a big county Greyduster so there will be variations.

Another good Yorkshire word ‘morngy’ the Lancashire word is ‘mardy’.

lemongrove I’ve never heard the word snicket - it was always ‘gennel’, the ‘g’ pronounced softly as a ‘j’.

The only snicket I have heard of is Lemony Snicket

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.

Ginnel is a Lancashire word, snicket is a Yorkshire word.