My son's kindergarten class are studying the UK. They are also interested in language at the moment, and I thought it might be interesting/easy to demonstrate how many dialects are present in such a small country.
One item I thought of that has many different names is a bread roll used for a sandwich (cob, bap, barm cake......)
Another is food (grub, snap, scran......)
1) what word did you most commonly use for each of these and which region do you come from?
2) can you think of any other example where there is a huge variation?
thanks )
Tea cake and muffins, food was denoted by, breakfast, dinner and tea, came from Lancashire.
Will think on t'other grin
That's a great idea, we would use butty a lot, chip butty, bacon butty.
Tea cake and muffins, food was denoted by, breakfast, dinner and tea, came from Lancashire.
Will think on t'other :grin:
That's something I had to get used to here, growing up we also said breakfast, dinner and tea. Now it is breakfast, lunch and dinner
I'd say barm cake or just barm if I was back home. Here I say bun. I might also say butty or sarnie or even sanger!
A good one is "moggie". Some folks use it to refer to a cat, others a mouse...depends where you are from. I would say it was a cat.
Oh and I'm also a Lancashire Lass but from a different part than Annie....you'll also find a variation with where Wendl is from too!
Debs x smile
the words used for child - bairn, sprog, poppet.
We generally just say a bread roll, or roll for your first question.
other than "sandwich," sarnie
Another good word to explore is the whole Trainers, pumps, daps, plimsols.
"Bap" for a flatter, soft roll in Kent. (I am speaking of bread
shock )
Breakfast, dinner, tea. I think it's more working class than regional - my posher neighbours had lunch and dinner or supper.
Where I came from a wasp was a jasper and a woodlouse was a peabug.
Deb, we used moggie too for a cat, but, is a black cat lucky when it crosses your path or unlucky. For me, it was lucky, my pal who lived in Todmorden, I think still part of Lancashire but way over the hill and almost Yorkshire, it was unlucky. Mind in those days if you lived on a farm you were miles from everywhere.
Bread roll for me too. Bun usually means sweet.
/also had the jasper thing
I've always said "roll" - I hate the word bap. My family moved around alot when I was growing up (Forces Brat) so I didn't really have a regional dialect. And my mother was very strict about vocabulary and pronounciation so she woudln't even tolerate us speaking as she did (valley Welsh).
Of course, after living in the Us I sound like a tit now. I use American words for things that I didn't even use in the US - possibly because my mouth is fatter now.
Rolls for bread rolls, buns were sweet, as in hot cross buns, or cream buns.
Crumpets for me, pikelets for my Yorkshire wife.
Sandwiches, sarnies, or butties. lot of kids called them sangwiches when they were young.
Moggies, black ones were either lucky or unlucky, with no rhyme or reason.
Sandshoes, tennis shoes or plimsols.
Spondulicks, filthy lucre, the root of all evil, ducats, dosh, lolly and moolah, come to mind for money. I don't know if they are regional though. Oops, I forgot, skin.
A friend of mine used to call woodlouses "chuffypigs".
It was deemed lucky for a black cat to cross your path....good really as at one time we had two of them living with us!!!!
Debs x smile
can you think of any other example where there is a huge variation?
sorry this is not for kids but i find the biggest variant of examples is the bathroom.
ie..lavvy, bog ,throne, dumpster [not a skip] sh####r p####r
cr####R [AFTER THE INVENTOR shock ]
IF I AM IN TROUBLE FOR THIS I AM BENDING OVER NOW lol lol