Dialect part 3

[ladyofastolat]

Okay, here is a UK version of the dialect meme, with questions added by Bunn, Steepholm, Muuranker, Philmophlegm, Segh and Amalion. Anyone who feels like doing it is free to add extra questions

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[king_pellinor]

Context: born in the South somewhere, spent first 18 years living in Whitley Bay in Tyne & Wear, then Oxford and now the Oilawoi. Parents from Gateshead and South Shields both on the south bank of the Tyne.

1. Path, alley, gap. Maybe backpath?
2. Jumper
3. Skiving
4. Tag
5. Skinch, or skinchies. Often with fingers crossed
6. Bagsy, or Bags I
7. Gym shoes
8. Bun, as a general term. A lot of specific ones, though.
9. Pudding
10. Gone. Obviously... :-)
11. Spuggy (picked up from Dad; idiosyncratic to him, as far as I know)
12. Assuming you don't mean normal pancakes: dropscone or scotch pancake
13. Stotty cakes
14. None, particularly.
15. Wimp, little sister :-)
16. None
17. Default to dry stone wall, I think.
18. Cows, barn or shed (depending on what the building looks like...;-) )
19. Hungry and cold
20. Dunno... scaredy cat?
21. Rich person? No particular term
22. Thanks
23. Hello
24. Possibly strides, but I'd only use it to be obtuse
25. None
26. SHROVESbry (the V almost silent), NewCAStle, GLAZgow
27. Sandwich: butty if chips, bacon or jam
28. None known
29. Lug or lughole, for ear; gob for mouth
30. Can't think of a general one

[ladyofastolat]

re. Spuggy: see the Geordie dictionary here

[king_pellinor]

Interesting - I don't recall anyone else using it.

[chainmailmaiden]

That's what we call sparrows at home, but I don't suppose it's a word I would have ever used in conversation with you :-)

[king_pellinor]

7. Sand shoes. I'd forgotten that.