Canny lass, Geordie girl
Ganked from
kynon cos I am avoiding paperwork and I speak about eight dialects anyway- being well travelled in these shores of ours and having to change dialect when I came home from school so I could understand my siblings who went to school locally- so it may be interesting, or not.
The space between two buildings containing a footpath:
Vennel, snicket, gate, finkle
A knitted item of clothing worn over a shirt, without buttons:
Jumper
The act of not going to something that you're supposed to go to:
Skiving, hooky
Playground game in which someone is "it" and has to touch someone else who then becomes "it.":
Tag, It, He
Playground truce term when you want a break from the above games:
Pax, Crosskeys
Playground term you say when you want to claim something:
Bagsy
Slip-on shoes worn for school sports in the days before trainers:
Pumps, plimsolls
Small round bread:
Roll, bap, bun
Sweet course that follows the main course:
Pudding
Scone: pronounced to rhyme with "gone" or with "moan":
as in "gone"
Generic term for a bird:
If they mean an actual bird- spuggy
Round food stuff made with batter on a griddle, which is brown on the outside:
Pancake or dropscone
A delicacy that you feel is particularly local to you:
Deep fried marsbar up here. The stottie in Durham
Term of endearment:
Hinny, hen,lassie
Someone who's soft and easily feels the cold:
Jessie, mincer
Tourists:
Grockles, Emmets (the only bit of Cornwallese in my dialect)
A field boundary:
Stane dyke, wall, hedge, fence
You see a group of animals standing in a farm building. They have udders and go moo. Complete the following sentence: "Look at those ____ standing in that ____!" :
Cows, kine,beasts. Barn, byre
You haven't had anything to eat in a long time, and your stomach is letting you know about it. You would also like to be warmer.
"I'm reet hank, an' it's baltic/nithering in here"
Your friends invite you to enter a haunted house: you demur. What do they call you, by way of a derisive taunt?:
Big Jessie /mincer
A man who dresses flashily with lots of expensive jewellery is a ____:
Flash Harry, stoosh twunt, pimp
What do you say in a shop when you are handed your change?:
Cheers
Generic friendly greeting:
A'reet? Now then? How do?
Slang term for a pair of trousers:
Breeks, keks, keggers, strides
Slang term for left-handed person:
Caggy, cuddywhifter, cack handed
Pronunciation of Shrewsbury? Newcastle? Glasgow?:
Shrowsbry,Nya'cassle,Glasgy
Two pieces of bread with a filling:
Piece, sandwich,bait
A playground way of saying someone is out of order:
You twat!
Dialect terms for hands, ears, face - and, indeed, for any other body parts you care to name:
chipshovels, lugs, fizzog
Terms for someone who looks miserable:
Moaning minnie
Potatoes:
Tatties, pumfrits
Pale round food stuff with a brown base, lots of holes in it, which you serve hot with butter:
Crumpet, pikelet
Ok- maybe not as interesting as I thought ;)
kynon cos I am avoiding paperwork and I speak about eight dialects anyway- being well travelled in these shores of ours and having to change dialect when I came home from school so I could understand my siblings who went to school locally- so it may be interesting, or not.
The space between two buildings containing a footpath:
Vennel, snicket, gate, finkle
A knitted item of clothing worn over a shirt, without buttons:
Jumper
The act of not going to something that you're supposed to go to:
Skiving, hooky
Playground game in which someone is "it" and has to touch someone else who then becomes "it.":
Tag, It, He
Playground truce term when you want a break from the above games:
Pax, Crosskeys
Playground term you say when you want to claim something:
Bagsy
Slip-on shoes worn for school sports in the days before trainers:
Pumps, plimsolls
Small round bread:
Roll, bap, bun
Sweet course that follows the main course:
Pudding
Scone: pronounced to rhyme with "gone" or with "moan":
as in "gone"
Generic term for a bird:
If they mean an actual bird- spuggy
Round food stuff made with batter on a griddle, which is brown on the outside:
Pancake or dropscone
A delicacy that you feel is particularly local to you:
Deep fried marsbar up here. The stottie in Durham
Term of endearment:
Hinny, hen,lassie
Someone who's soft and easily feels the cold:
Jessie, mincer
Tourists:
Grockles, Emmets (the only bit of Cornwallese in my dialect)
A field boundary:
Stane dyke, wall, hedge, fence
You see a group of animals standing in a farm building. They have udders and go moo. Complete the following sentence: "Look at those ____ standing in that ____!" :
Cows, kine,beasts. Barn, byre
You haven't had anything to eat in a long time, and your stomach is letting you know about it. You would also like to be warmer.
"I'm reet hank, an' it's baltic/nithering in here"
Your friends invite you to enter a haunted house: you demur. What do they call you, by way of a derisive taunt?:
Big Jessie /mincer
A man who dresses flashily with lots of expensive jewellery is a ____:
Flash Harry, stoosh twunt, pimp
What do you say in a shop when you are handed your change?:
Cheers
Generic friendly greeting:
A'reet? Now then? How do?
Slang term for a pair of trousers:
Breeks, keks, keggers, strides
Slang term for left-handed person:
Caggy, cuddywhifter, cack handed
Pronunciation of Shrewsbury? Newcastle? Glasgow?:
Shrowsbry,Nya'cassle,Glasgy
Two pieces of bread with a filling:
Piece, sandwich,bait
A playground way of saying someone is out of order:
You twat!
Dialect terms for hands, ears, face - and, indeed, for any other body parts you care to name:
chipshovels, lugs, fizzog
Terms for someone who looks miserable:
Moaning minnie
Potatoes:
Tatties, pumfrits
Pale round food stuff with a brown base, lots of holes in it, which you serve hot with butter:
Crumpet, pikelet
Ok- maybe not as interesting as I thought ;)