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They say there's nowt queerer than folk but I beg to differ when you listen to the names some folk give stuff and it's generally the same thing as what has a totally different name elsewhere.

 

So, in your neck of the woods, what do you call the following?

 

A teacake in my mind.

 

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Having become quite fluent in Cumbrian, I now automatically call this a lonning.

 

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A snicket or ginnel

 

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A growler

 

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its a bread roll a path an alley and a pork pie

Maybe we just keep things simple round here.   a roll the forest an alley a pork pie     lonning,snicket,ginnel and growler ....your making it up surely.

A bread bun,a path a ally and a pork pie.a teacake is totally different to a bread bun.it has currents in it to make it a teacake mate.

 

 

Cob, woodland path, jitty and pork pie.

 

A jitty is a new one on me. Where does that come from?

 

 

East Midlands. According to wikipedia it's a Derbyshire/Leicestershire term. I was raised around Linc's/Nott's/Leic's.

 

Colloquialisms have always fascinated me. I think it started when you're a kid and met other kids on holiday from all over the place. They'd ask if you wanted to play a game which you'd never heard of but when they explained the rules it was a game you had a different name for (and even some more rules but the principle of the game remained). For some reason we ended up calling football "togger" when I was growing up. "Are you playing football" morphed into "lecking togger?"

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Cob, woodland path, jitty and pork pie.

 

A jitty is a new one on me. Where does that come from?

 

 

East Midlands. According to wikipedia it's a Derbyshire/Leicestershire term. I was raised around Linc's/Nott's/Leic's.

 

Colloquialisms have always fascinated me. I think it started when you're a kid and met other kids on holiday from all over the place. They'd ask if you wanted to play a game which you'd never heard of but when they explained the rules it was a game you had a different name for (and even some more rules but the principle of the game remained). For some reason we ended up calling football "togger" when I was growing up. "Are you playing football" morphed into "lecking togger?"

 

 

I find it funny to look at the dialect even on a local level. For instance the pronunciation of place names. There's an old money type town in Nott's called Southwell. The local dialect would pronounce it Su-thle, but some folks can't bring themselves to speak so commonly and insist on South-well. Like a class difference. I guess like most folks I never perceived myself to have a dialect or accent but it's not untill dropped in a relatively foreign area that locals point it out.

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