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You call what a what?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I call wasps jaspers
Dont know where it came from or why
Do you call something by a different name?
Ps let's get all the dick and fanny names out the way first |
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"My friend calls woodlice, monkeypeas. Apparently this is common in the UK to call them different names depending on your region. "
I have just seen there are a staggering 250 different names for woodlice |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Remote control - Doofer
Where I live, people call a fight a pagger?
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I've heard people say they are paggered when they are particularly worn out from something strenuous.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Remote control - Doofer
Where I live, people call a fight a pagger?
I've heard people say they are paggered when they are particularly worn out from something strenuous...."
Around this neck of the woods people say jiggered for being worn out. |
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"Remote control - Doofer
Where I live, people call a fight a pagger?
I've heard people say they are paggered when they are particularly worn out from something strenuous....
Around this neck of the woods people say jiggered for being worn out."
My family are Cumbrian and if something is broken or worn out my dad says it’s goosed!
A man is a gajy |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My friend calls woodlice, monkeypeas. Apparently this is common in the UK to call them different names depending on your region. "
They get called slaters here. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cheesebobs is the correct name for woodlice.
That has put me off Wotsits
And Quavers."
Quavers put me off quavers. The most un cheese-like cheese snack. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A ginnel. Narrow path typically between two houses is a Yorkshireism, seems relatively unknown elsewhere "
Where i come from it's called a jennel, or a snicket.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Not sure we Scots should weigh in on this one as we’d be here all day… couple of favourites though
Seagull - scurry or a pyool
Vest - semmit
Earwig - horny golloch
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A ginnel. Narrow path typically between two houses is a Yorkshireism, seems relatively unknown elsewhere
hear this mentioned on Coronation Street a lot. "
I'd always assumed that that particular version was from over the border.  |
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"How about when you have young kids everything end with (ies)
Wormies,toesies, you get my drift
Don't you mean "driftie"
Winston "
everything ends up having (ies) to it legies,armies,handies,im not continuing i have it all day for real  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The other half and I have had a few amusing debates over my use of ‘diluting juice’ and ‘ginger’ for drinks.
J"
Coz it is diluting juice and a bottle of ginger haha |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I call it a potato fritter but my family from Warwick call it a scallop despite the fact a scallop is a bit of seafood 
That used to confuse me."
My Mum's from Birmingham and she still calls it a scallop too. I'm like |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
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"I call it a potato fritter but my family from Warwick call it a scallop despite the fact a scallop is a bit of seafood
That used to confuse me.
My Mum's from Birmingham and she still calls it a scallop too. I'm like "
Why have scallop and chips? It's two kinds of fried potato. |
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"The other half and I have had a few amusing debates over my use of ‘diluting juice’ and ‘ginger’ for drinks.
J
Is diluting juice also known as water ?"
No. He calls it squash.
I call it diluting juice because you dilute it with water |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Remote control - Doofer
Where I live, people call a fight a pagger?
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I’ve always just called them “the buttons” or sometimes “the bodger” for a change |
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"I call it a potato fritter but my family from Warwick call it a scallop despite the fact a scallop is a bit of seafood
That used to confuse me.
My Mum's from Birmingham and she still calls it a scallop too. I'm like "
My family are all from Brum, so we hate tater scallops as a kid |
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"Remote control - Doofer
Where I live, people call a fight a pagger?
I’ve always just called them “the buttons” or sometimes “the bodger” for a change "
The 'widget' in our house is always hiding somewhere. Bloody kids |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Remote control - Doofer
Where I live, people call a fight a pagger?
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In our house, a remote is called a mope, because my grand daughter couldn't say it properly. |
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