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There are lots of regional names for some items, including these 4.
Can you tell us the names you use and where you live (not your address as I'm not sending you a card!!)
(10-12-2020, 07:28 PM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]There are lots of regional names for some items, including these 4.
Can you tell us the names you use and where you live (not your address as I'm not sending you a card!!)
1. Roll
2. Dressing Gown
3. Alley
4. Crust / Heel
4. Crust - Me, Londoner
4. Heel - Mrs B - Spent 10ish years in Scotland (9 - 21)
1. Roll or bun
2. Robe or dressing gown
3. Alley or cut
4. Crust
Location Wiltshire
1. Bap
2. Dressing gown
3. Lane
4. Crust
Sunshiny South Wales
1 a cob
2 dressing gown
3 gennel
4 a crust
Derbyshire.
1. Bap
2. Dressing gown
3. Gulley
4. Crust/ though also known as the knobby. Depends who I'm with. Doorstop for the thick slice
1 roll
2 dressin goon
3 lane
4 doorstop
1 (if I say it to close friends or family) Bap (to anyone else I say) soft roll
2 dressing gown
3 (if I say it to close friends or family) alley (to anyone else I say) pathway
4 (if I say it to close friends or family) knob end (to anyone else I say) crust
I do try to hide norfolkness to general folk
although I think my accent and words come from Yarmouth way not where I live now as several people in these parts have commented on my accent.
1 roll - if it were larger and flatter it would be a tea cake (not to be confused with a current teacake).
2 dressing gown
3 ginnel
4 crust.
I'm from south yorkshire, although I now live in Lancaster, my wife (from Lancaster) agrees with me on these except the tea cake which apparently (although she's wrong) always has dried fruit in it and you don't need to qualify it, if it's no fruit it's not a teacake according to her.