steviedeluxe

Words used only in a certain area - could be in Spain or back in the UK.

For instance, where I grew up in the Midlands, we called a roll a "cob" eg a "cheese cob". So far as I know it's not used anywhere else.

megmet

For us in east Lancashire a "cob" was a rounded loaf of bread.

We also would have said... cob it...meaning to throw it.

JLFS

A cob is a hard one.

A bap is a soft one,

megmet

What others call a bap....we call a T-cake.

Domino

here in the Fens we call a mole hill a mountain, but that probably doesn't count, although we do have a local Mountain Rescue Team who meet for training ever week in the local pub.

In the Bournemouth\Poole area they call visitors\tourists\holidaymakers "Grockles"
and they have bumper stickers saying things like "don't shout I'm not a Grockle"

Domino

we have Tea-Cakes, but they have currants in them and we toast them and put oodles of real dairy butter and........
hang on I'm off to have one.

megmet

Will you stop that. I've not had one of those for years, now I'm going to have to hunt them down here.
Well that's another trip to Iceland for us then.

Oh and yes I meant Tea-cakes, I was just having a Senior Moment!

Domino

would stop and talk but got butter on the keyboardddddddddddddddddddd

Dick Dasterdly

Ah, pleasant memories of sitting in front of the open coal fire with a toasting fork doing teacakes to a turn then ladling on lashings of real butter and strawberry jam.

We must have been rich then, because prior to that we could have jam and nee butter or butter and nee jam, or sometimes just marge.

megmet

That's so cruel!

megmet

You can go off folks for rubbing that in.

steviedeluxe

I'm not sure if this is 100% correct, but a person from Leicester told me once that the people of Skegness (that fine seaside resort on the East coast) referred to visitors from Leicester as "Issets". Why? Well, the first thing apparently a Leicester visitor would say in a shop or cafe was "How much isset?"

steviedeluxe

I always like the word "Bin Laden" for the 500 Euro note, used here in Spain. Maybe they should change the name now to "Gaddafi"? Of course thinking about it, there are other terms for cash that you soon need to know about. I still hear people talk about Pelas (slang for pesetas) when they mean cash or readies. Cinco duros (25 pesetas?) is another one, but I have no idea what it now means in Euro terms. Of course we have had plenty of currency expressions in the uk that can confuse the foreigners. Lend us 20 bob? Or: That'll cost you a monkey!

johnnyone

Where I am from Baps are not T -cakes but the word does start with the letter T.

Rosemary

The Cornish call holiday makers "Emmets" which means ants and people who have moved there from other parts of the country "Grockles".

My OH calls the traditional round crumpets, pikelets. So when Tescos brought out the square pikelets I kept on buying the wrong thing.

In Dorset the Dorset cob is small and very, hard.

Love toasted tea cakes with butter or not toasted with Devon clotted cream.

Rosemary