Dialects - what do you call a...

[BevS97]

Originally Posted by WIGGYSMUM

Chuddy ?

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My husband always calls that chud. No idea why.

I saw alley / plimsoll / bread bun / dressing gown / splinter or a spelk

But while I’ve lived in the north east for a long time I lived all ober growing up so I’m definitely not typical.

[Wee_Red]

Alley or lane (close is the bit inside a tenement that leads off to all the flats)
sandshoes
roll (if it's soft) or crispy roll if it's a morning roll.

[Wee_Red]

Originally Posted by Perthite

Isn’t it a “roll AND sausage” rather than “on”?

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It's a roll and sausage/bacon/tattie scone (none of your hash brown nonsense)

[FeFe]

We call them
Lane
Gym shoes or sandshoes
Roll
Dressing gown
Chuggy
Skelf
From Glasgow

[Vanillapod]

I’ve always found the roll debate interesting.
If I were to nip into M&S in Wigan (I’m sure I saw Wigan in the thread) for a cheese roll (I would also call it a bap if it was flat) what would the label say? A cheese barmcake?

Also, the swede/turnip thing. Do supermarkets honestly have regional labels?

[scottishmum]

Growing up in Scotland it was a skelf , here in north east England it’s a spelk.

We called it chuggy for chewing gum.

A wouldlouse was a “slater”

[soooexcited!]

Here:
Back passage 🤣
Bap
Dressing gown or bathrobe
Plimys
Chewy

So in Norfolk these are Bishy Barnabee.

Not your average ladybird🤣

[Taffy1959]

Originally Posted by WIGGYSMUM

Chuddy ?

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I call it disgusting can’t stand the stuff or the smell of it

[Scotsmomma2]

Originally Posted by scottishmum

Growing up in Scotland it was a skelf , here in north east England it’s a spelk.

We called it chuggy for chewing gum.

A wouldlouse was a “slater”

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Growing up in Gretna it was a spelk lol and now in Stirlingshire it's a skelf 😁

[JAF]

Originally Posted by Beth_Disney

I’m in the West Midlands (Black Country) and call it a gully.

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We always think of a gully as normally something water runs along.