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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

One thing about the uk has always tickled me the amount of words folks use that would go right over the head in other counties we all know the tea cake barm roll war will go on and on but what about other words and meanings so please share some words unique to your area and what it means

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By *adyHWoman
over a year ago

South Glos

In Bristol we say ‘smooth’ instead of pet or stroke!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I learnt ‘to pie off’ from Angel-Eyes. Love it

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I just learned a scouse kids play Rhimes insult thingy about a meff gone wrong

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By *edmark07Man
over a year ago

liverpool

In Liverpool its lolly ice not ice lolly and the asda not asda.

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By *cousesubsallyWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere out there

Tossing off means something different in Yorkshire than it does here

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch


"Tossing off means something different in Yorkshire than it does here "

Haha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Alright cock, in Lancashire is a term of endearment. not and an insult

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Tossing off means something different in Yorkshire than it does here "
no sweety its tossing it off

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Alright cock, in Lancashire is a term of endearment. not and an insult "
same in wakey first time i went wakey i almost chinned a bloke for saying cheers cock

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Din

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By *cousesubsallyWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere out there


"Tossing off means something different in Yorkshire than it does here no sweety its tossing it off "

Tossing off/tossing it off - same horse, different jockey - it’s still wanking in my book

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Tossing off means something different in Yorkshire than it does here no sweety its tossing it off

Tossing off/tossing it off - same horse, different jockey - it’s still wanking in my book "
no its having a lazy day

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Din"
whats din

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Alright cock, in Lancashire is a term of endearment. not and an insult same in wakey first time i went wakey i almost chinned a bloke for saying cheers cock "

Ahh, only just over the Pennines. Must be a northern thing. Lots of friends have felt the same as you when called it! Haha

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Alright cock, in Lancashire is a term of endearment. not and an insult same in wakey first time i went wakey i almost chinned a bloke for saying cheers cock

Ahh, only just over the Pennines. Must be a northern thing. Lots of friends have felt the same as you when called it! Haha "

Not surprised its a shocking life experience

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"In Liverpool its lolly ice not ice lolly and the asda not asda. "
dont even get me started on some of the scouse words im leaning its like a bloody mine field

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By *WillowxWoman
over a year ago

Oo err Devon

WHASSON SHAG...?

How are you friend/buddy in cornish

Or DRECKLY.. Soon/soon enough

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bread cakes... Its a Barnsley thing for a Bread Roll or Bun

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Dinwhats din "

Din. Div. idiot etc

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

Noo den borr!

Proper East Yorkshire that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like the Welsh "now, in a minute" which could mean the next 60 seconds or four hours time.

"When's dinner ready?"

"Now, in a minute"

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By *iddlesticksMan
over a year ago

My nan’s spare room.

In Lancashire we call a clothes airer/drier, a maiden.

Or is it just us old ‘uns

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"WHASSON SHAG...?

How are you friend/buddy in cornish

Or DRECKLY.. Soon/soon enough"

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By *ancardiff7Man
over a year ago

Near Cowbridge


"I like the Welsh "now, in a minute" which could mean the next 60 seconds or four hours time.

"When's dinner ready?"

"Now, in a minute""

We also have 'Bad in bed, under the doctor' which is not what you might think it is

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I like the Welsh "now, in a minute" which could mean the next 60 seconds or four hours time.

"When's dinner ready?"

"Now, in a minute"

We also have 'Bad in bed, under the doctor' which is not what you might think it is "

There's so many, my best friend was from Merthyr. Cwtch has been covered a lot on these forums. Great word...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"WHASSON SHAG...?

How are you friend/buddy in cornish

Or DRECKLY.. Soon/soon enough"

Another cornish delight would be werz he to

Meaning where is he

Or tiz ansum

Meaning its nice

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"In Lancashire we call a clothes airer/drier, a maiden.

Or is it just us old ‘uns "
i call it the rack another torture device hmmm

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Noo den borr!

Proper East Yorkshire that."
whats it mean tho

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Tossing off means something different in Yorkshire than it does here no sweety its tossing it off

Tossing off/tossing it off - same horse, different jockey - it’s still wanking in my book no its having a lazy day "

I come from Yorkshire and i've never heard that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Me and a mate were in a restaurant bar in Turkey getting a few beers when the barman asked us if we'd like some food my mate in his thick Fife accent said, Naw pal wur stappit full ti the gunnels, cheers anyway. The barman just looked at him like wtf was that

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate


"Me and a mate were in a restaurant bar in Turkey getting a few beers when the barman asked us if we'd like some food my mate in his thick Fife accent said, Naw pal wur stappit full ti the gunnels, cheers anyway. The barman just looked at him like wtf was that "

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Tossing off means something different in Yorkshire than it does here no sweety its tossing it off

Tossing off/tossing it off - same horse, different jockey - it’s still wanking in my book no its having a lazy day

I come from Yorkshire and i've never heard that. "
really lol

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Me and a mate were in a restaurant bar in Turkey getting a few beers when the barman asked us if we'd like some food my mate in his thick Fife accent said, Naw pal wur stappit full ti the gunnels, cheers anyway. The barman just looked at him like wtf was that "
yep im giving the same look now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Me and a mate were in a restaurant bar in Turkey getting a few beers when the barman asked us if we'd like some food my mate in his thick Fife accent said, Naw pal wur stappit full ti the gunnels, cheers anyway. The barman just looked at him like wtf was that yep im giving the same look now "

Pmsl, Not just Turkey then

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By *0FrankMan
over a year ago

The South!

Favourite West country/Bristolian sayings:

Where's it to? - Where is it.

Gurt - big

How be yon? - How are you?

Alreet me Cocker? - Alright my friend?

Daps - Plymsols

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By *ose CoupleCouple
over a year ago

Bradford


"Tossing off means something different in Yorkshire than it does here no sweety its tossing it off

Tossing off/tossing it off - same horse, different jockey - it’s still wanking in my book "

Tossing off and tossing it off........ completely different things hahaha

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land


"I like the Welsh "now, in a minute" which could mean the next 60 seconds or four hours time.

"When's dinner ready?"

"Now, in a minute"

We also have 'Bad in bed, under the doctor' which is not what you might think it is "

Tamping = furious

Is my favourite welshism

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

'Ear all, see all, say nowt,

Eat all, sup all, pay nowt,

And if thy ever does owt f' nowt,

Allus do it f' thi sen.

That's kind of a mantra for me.

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By *0FrankMan
over a year ago

The South!


"I like the Welsh "now, in a minute" which could mean the next 60 seconds or four hours time.

"When's dinner ready?"

"Now, in a minute"

We also have 'Bad in bed, under the doctor' which is not what you might think it is

Tamping = furious

Is my favourite welshism"

Cowin' 'ell.

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York


"Noo den borr!

Proper East Yorkshire that.whats it mean tho"

'Hello mate' pretty much!

Noo den being 'now then'

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York


"I like the Welsh "now, in a minute" which could mean the next 60 seconds or four hours time.

"When's dinner ready?"

"Now, in a minute"

We also have 'Bad in bed, under the doctor' which is not what you might think it is

There's so many, my best friend was from Merthyr. Cwtch has been covered a lot on these forums. Great word..."

When I met Jon Bernthal (The Punisher) the other week he was doing a Q&A session when a women in a wheelchair asked him if she could have a cwtch, he didn't know what it meant but as soon as someone told him he dropped his mic, jumped down off stage and gave her a big hug, it made her day!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Noo den borr!

Proper East Yorkshire that.whats it mean tho

'Hello mate' pretty much!

Noo den being 'now then'"
aaaaah i thought it was viking lol

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

Theres a few Yampy people on here....aka 'not quite right in the head', in the Midlands

Theres also a lot of Bostin' wenches here too (or Bostin' Steve Austin- to use the full version)....aka 'Lovely Ladies'

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By *atricia ParnelWoman
over a year ago

In a town full of colours

We have Grockles down here

Pesky out of town tourists

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We have Grockles down here

Pesky out of town tourists "

In cornwall we call them emits

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Ow am yam

Black Country for “How are you”

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By *andy2123Couple
over a year ago

Portsmouth

Coping off with someone means different in the south than the North.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

... backs away

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We have our own language ,one of the oldest in western Europe

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By *uietlykinkymeWoman
over a year ago

kinky land

Boss = good

Wool = not born locally

Muftie = civies (ie none school uniform)

Duyanowatchimeeeeaannn = err

Mooch, from the midlands, to go see

And yeah the bap,barn,bread cake, bun, etc drove me potty when I moved to live here

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Front bum

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By *ensualpleasures69Man
over a year ago

leeds


"'Ear all, see all, say nowt,

Eat all, sup all, pay nowt,

And if thy ever does owt f' nowt,

Allus do it f' thi sen.

That's kind of a mantra for me. "

That is yorkshire at its best

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In South West Scotland 'dogging' is playing truant from school!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Boss = good

Wool = not born locally

Muftie = civies (ie none school uniform)

Duyanowatchimeeeeaannn = err

Mooch, from the midlands, to go see

And yeah the bap,barn,bread cake, bun, etc drove me potty when I moved to live here "

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"In South West Scotland 'dogging' is playing truant from school! "
i called that slamming off but 10 miles away its bunking off

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"We have our own language ,one of the oldest in western Europe "
sounds ace in full flow too

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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago

Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe

In Yorkshire 'tintintin' means the metal container is empty.

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow


"Alright cock, in Lancashire is a term of endearment. not and an insult "

A good swinging mate of mine says alright cock everytime she catches up with me

I know it’s a term of endearment but still confuses me as in London that would be offensive

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By *toC Thats MeWoman
over a year ago

Sheffield

Mardy - face on

Breadcake - food of the gods

Gi’ore - give over/stop it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

had this yesterday ....

friend said we'll go down the jitty. notts/leic for alley

I call it a snicket - I'm from yorkshire

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By *aven RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

Skitting someone - taking the piss out of them x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"In Bristol we say ‘smooth’ instead of pet or stroke! "

Ha yes my pussycat loves a bit of smoothing.

The one that always gets me down here though is they say daps for plimsoles....just weird!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Twp - stupid

Cwtch - hug

Tidy butt - nice one

Wass occurin - what’s up or hello

Na mun - no

O’right boyo- greeting

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Got the monk on - someone who looks miserable.

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By *exymidscouple2017Couple
over a year ago

Birmingham


"In South West Scotland 'dogging' is playing truant from school! i called that slamming off but 10 miles away its bunking off "

I'm originally from Manchester..we called it wagging off lol

I've had some laughs over the different slangs when i moved here in Birmingham

*Mrs

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"had this yesterday ....

friend said we'll go down the jitty. notts/leic for alley

I call it a snicket - I'm from yorkshire

"
yel snicket it is not a bloody ginnel either

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Skitting someone - taking the piss out of them x"
ook thats new going in my note pad

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over a year ago

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By *acey_RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

Scran = food

Kecks = trousers

Gegging in = being nosey or joining in when you're not wanted

Bevy = alcoholic drink

Heavy salad = really bad news

If you've got a cob on that means you're annoyed or sulking so I was very confused living in Leicester where a cob is a bread roll. Unless pissed off Scouse people just put bread rolls on their heads .

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Scran = food

Kecks = trousers

Gegging in = being nosey or joining in when you're not wanted

Bevy = alcoholic drink

Heavy salad = really bad news

If you've got a cob on that means you're annoyed or sulking so I was very confused living in Leicester where a cob is a bread roll. Unless pissed off Scouse people just put bread rolls on their heads ."
stay away from bakerys when moody

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

Where I work in Wessieland (west Yorkshire) it's all "arr mam", "arr lad", "arr Kat" etc when referring to anyone.

When they're going for lunch it's "just off fer us snap"

"Just off for't shit owld cock"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

anyone heard of cotters in the hair

my friend from another part of Yorkshire said lugs

basically knots

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Docky box, in Cambs, potentially other parts of East Anglia, for restaurant/cafe

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By *hy_bangor_bi-girlWoman
over a year ago

Bangor

In Northern Ireland we call ice cream Cones "pokes" for some reason.

So being asked if you fancy a poke isn't a exciting as it sounds lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

'Cob' instead of 'roll' , ive never used it mind i always ask for a bacon roll

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By *uke OzadeMan
over a year ago

Ho Chi Minge City


"In Northern Ireland we call ice cream Cones "pokes" for some reason.

So being asked if you fancy a poke isn't a exciting as it sounds lol"

And you have to finish it with ‘so I did’ so if you had an ice cream cone you’d say ‘I just had a poke so I did’ which sounds just the way fab should make it sound

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By *illie99TV/TS
over a year ago

Central Scotland

You know somebody is from my neck of the woods when they say "ye Ken"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Scran = food

Kecks = trousers

Gegging in = being nosey or joining in when you're not wanted

Bevy = alcoholic drink

Heavy salad = really bad news

If you've got a cob on that means you're annoyed or sulking so I was very confused living in Leicester where a cob is a bread roll. Unless pissed off Scouse people just put bread rolls on their heads .stay away from bakerys when moody "

Or mardy as we say in Leicester (not moody lol)

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By *ervent_fervourMan
over a year ago

Halifax

Buggerlugs.

Noun:term of endearment for a young child. Nothing to do with fucking ears.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You're all strange. Here in Essex we speak perfectly normally.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In Birmingham we call roundabouts islands

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By *oss and SuzieCouple
over a year ago

Porthmadog

Was sitting in a meeting waiting for it to start, chatting about plans for the weekend, including for food. The rather attractive Southern woman taking minutes loudly announced 'I love a nice piece of meat at the weekend'. The Northern Chairman coughed and said 'where I come from, that has a different meaning'.

True story.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"had this yesterday ....

friend said we'll go down the jitty. notts/leic for alley

I call it a snicket - I'm from yorkshire

"

Ginnel... Where I grew up

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By *ng1983Couple
over a year ago

Newcastle upon tyne

Deeks- to have have a look

Gadgie- man

Canny- nice

Gan yem- to go home

Radgie- chav

Snout- cigarette

Bairn- a kid

Haddaway and shite- are you kidding

Theres probabky more, but these are the ones that have confused my out of town friends

Gem

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"In Birmingham we call roundabouts islands"

In Dundee they're called circles

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By *EnewbieWoman
over a year ago

Morpeth

In Nottingham where I’m from originally a bread roll is a cob.

Hello is “ey up mi duck”

Strange lot we are

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