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[clan chieftain]

Up here cigarettes are fags but in N.E.England they are tabs.
Onions are sometimes called ingins.
Potatoes are spuds.
In some parts of Glasgow sandwiches are called chits or pieces.
Any variations where you live.
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The Clan Chieftain

[Roger-hatchy]

Quite a few in Norfolk
But I can never understand them

[D4B]

Where the queen might say "Goodness gracious me" when
acting surprised, in Portsmouth (but only within 3 miles of)
the locals would say Weeeeee

Bizarre

[pigtin]

When I moved to Ashford (Kent) from London in the late 50s I was told I came from "Up the Smoke." London was always referred to as "The Smoke."
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[RUSTON]

Plenty around the East Midlands where I live! Lunch box is a 'Snap Tin', rainwater guttering in Matlock is 'Launder' , potatoes are 'taters' and they are just a few that spring to mind.
Most villages have their own language!

Pete.
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[Bitumen Boy]

I'd never heard of guttering being called anything other than guttering before I came to the Valleys, where it's commonly known as "troughing" - normally pronounced "trowin'". For a while I though it was just a Welsh thing, then a guy along the road who's from the Telford area started calling it troughing as well so who knows...

Then of course there's the odd terms developed by bureaucracies - the DWP for instance, where pyramid selling scams and other get-rich-quick schemes of dubious legality are frequently called "jobs" - surely it can't be just another way to fiddle the figures...

[Peter_L]

When I worked in Barnsley, "dwnpit", air hose, water hose, hydraulic hose was known as "bagging".

When I moved to Penistone, it was a strictly male and usually nocturnal activity, not that far removed from primeval hunting.


Here in Canada, "Gutters" are "Eavestroughs" and "Skirtingboards" are "Baseboards"

Car brakes, can be "binders" and non-automatics are "standard".

"High Beam" can be "brights" and "five and twentypast" is never the answer to "what time do you have"

I spent quite some time in the Midlands, where "starved" was cold as opposed to Barnsley, where the same thing meant I wanted "sumat to ate"

Here we have "traffic circles" or "giratory intersections".

[colwyn500]

In Lancashire some people used to call your packed lunch your "baggin", which might confuse folk in Barnsley who think it's hydraulic hose. Here we would call it your "piece"; "Piece Box" = "Butty Box" in Lancashire.

I think many people will know "troughing" as eating where in "The Valleys" they would be thinking we mean "rhones", which in this part of Scotland is what gutters on roofs are called. Strangely, I have heard "gutters" used as an adjective to describe the sort of muddy mess a tractor might make at a field gate.

When I worked for a while on a farm in Lancashire, the farmer called artificial fertiliser "bagmuck". I like that one because it hints at an earlier organic age.

[roverdriver]

Interestingly, the 'guttering' in Oz is often called spouting, even though the pipes for taking the water from the guttering are also referred to as spouting.

Here we have the rhyming slang of 'Joe Blake' for snake of course, but there is a natural shortening of many names, so a car is provided with a 'diff' a 'genny' a 'rad' etc.

An interesting more recent occurrence is that young drivers today don't seem to have wheels on their cars. They mention tyres that are fitted to rims, but the word rim has become synonymous for wheel.
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[Bitumen Boy]

Just been reminded of some interedting ones from around the Severn estuary area - basically both sides from Cardiff or Avonmouth up to Gloucester way. A tidal inlet is generally a "pill", the larger drains on the levels are "rhines" (pronounced reen) and "wharf" was traditionally spelled "warth". Oddly none of these terms seem to have been used around the lower tidal stretch of the Wye, maybe there was more of a Welsh influence up there.