12. Round food stuff made with batter on a griddle, which is brown on the outside: Pancake? Scotch pancake? Welsh cake? 13. A delicacy that you feel is particularly local to you: I'm not sure if it is local to north Nottinghamshire, but I always associate Lardy Cake with that part of the world. I inherited/learned my passion from my grandmother there. 14. Term of endearment: at what level? To small children I think 'poppet' . 15. Someone who's soft and easily feels the cold: namby-pamby. 16. Tourists: they haven't discovered Northamptonshire yet. In the Dukeries, we just LOOKED. There is an entire body language which I think has passed away without being recorded: the language of servants. It is important not to _say_ anything, because that can be quoted against you. 17. A field boundary: Hedgerow. 18. You see a group of animals standing in a farm building. They have udders and go moo. Complete the following sentence: "Look at those ____ standing in that ____!": Look at those cows standing in that barn! The dialect word (or maybe it's a technical word I do remember is that young neutered males (older than calves, younger than beefburgers) is 'beast'. 19. You haven't had anything to eat in a long time, and your stomach is letting you know about it. You would also like to be warmer. You say: "I'm ____ and ___!": I'm famished and freezing. 20. Your friends invite you to enter a haunted house: you demur. What do they call you, by way of a derisive taunt? Scaredy cat! 21. A man who dresses flashily with lots of expensive jewellery is a ____: Poser. (or someone with more money than sense) 22. What do you say in a shop when you are handed your change?: Thank you or Cheers. 23. Generic friendly greeting: Hello 24. Slang term for a pair of trousers: don't have one 25. Slang term for left-handed: Cack-handed. 26. Pronunciation of Shrewsbury? Newcastle? Glasgow? SHROWS-buh-ree, NEW-cass-ul, GLARZgo. 27. Two pieces of bread with a filling: Sandwich 28. A playground way of saying someone is out of order: 'I'm telling Miss on you!" 29. Dialect terms for hands, ears, face – and, indeed, for any other body parts you care to name: Not especially dialect, hands are paws (in "paws off!") ears are lugholes. Someone who doesn't listen is a 'cloth ears'. 30. Terms for someone who looks miserable: Misery-guts. 31. Potatoes: Potatoes. Or by their specifc names (King Edwards, Maris Pipers, Jersey Royals, etc. etc. I wonder if there are significant differences in the numbers of names of different kinds of foods people know. I'm sure I can do two sides of A4 of cheeses. 32. Pale round food stuff with a brown base, lots of holes in it, which you serve hot with butter: Crumpet 33. You annoyingly lucky person!: Jammy devil.
and a new one: You notice from the sky that it is likely to rain, so you say : "It's looking a bit black over Bill's mothers".
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12. Round food stuff made with batter on a griddle, which is brown on the outside: Pancake? Scotch pancake? Welsh cake?
13. A delicacy that you feel is particularly local to you: I'm not sure if it is local to north Nottinghamshire, but I always associate Lardy Cake with that part of the world. I inherited/learned my passion from my grandmother there.
14. Term of endearment: at what level? To small children I think 'poppet' .
15. Someone who's soft and easily feels the cold: namby-pamby.
16. Tourists: they haven't discovered Northamptonshire yet. In the Dukeries, we just LOOKED. There is an entire body language which I think has passed away without being recorded: the language of servants. It is important not to _say_ anything, because that can be quoted against you.
17. A field boundary: Hedgerow.
18. You see a group of animals standing in a farm building. They have udders and go moo. Complete the following sentence: "Look at those ____ standing in that ____!": Look at those cows standing in that barn! The dialect word (or maybe it's a technical word I do remember is that young neutered males (older than calves, younger than beefburgers) is 'beast'.
19. You haven't had anything to eat in a long time, and your stomach is letting you know about it. You would also like to be warmer. You say: "I'm ____ and ___!": I'm famished and freezing.
20. Your friends invite you to enter a haunted house: you demur. What do they call you, by way of a derisive taunt? Scaredy cat!
21. A man who dresses flashily with lots of expensive jewellery is a ____: Poser. (or someone with more money than sense)
22. What do you say in a shop when you are handed your change?: Thank you or Cheers.
23. Generic friendly greeting: Hello
24. Slang term for a pair of trousers: don't have one
25. Slang term for left-handed: Cack-handed.
26. Pronunciation of Shrewsbury? Newcastle? Glasgow? SHROWS-buh-ree, NEW-cass-ul, GLARZgo.
27. Two pieces of bread with a filling: Sandwich
28. A playground way of saying someone is out of order: 'I'm telling Miss on you!"
29. Dialect terms for hands, ears, face – and, indeed, for any other body parts you care to name: Not especially dialect, hands are paws (in "paws off!") ears are lugholes. Someone who doesn't listen is a 'cloth ears'.
30. Terms for someone who looks miserable: Misery-guts.
31. Potatoes: Potatoes. Or by their specifc names (King Edwards, Maris Pipers, Jersey Royals, etc. etc. I wonder if there are significant differences in the numbers of names of different kinds of foods people know. I'm sure I can do two sides of A4 of cheeses.
32. Pale round food stuff with a brown base, lots of holes in it, which you serve hot with butter: Crumpet
33. You annoyingly lucky person!: Jammy devil.
and a new one: You notice from the sky that it is likely to rain, so you say : "It's looking a bit black over Bill's mothers".