http://yellowrocket.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] yellowrocket.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] ladyofastolat 2008-04-06 07:54 am (UTC)

OK. Born in Lincolnshire to a Yorkshire family, went to school in Hertfordshire and now live in West Wales. My accent is firmly Yorkshire, despite living in Herts. for so very long.

1. Cut
2. Jumper
3. Sagging off
4. Tag
5. Cross fingers and say, "Pax" or "Kings".
6. Bagsy
7. Daps or plimsolls
8. Bap. A larger one is a breadcake
9. Pudding
10. As in 'gone'
11. None. A Thrush is a Throstle and a Lapwing is a Peewit though. A Sparrow is also a Spug :-)
12. Pancake
13. Bara Brith and Welshcakes round here.
14. Love
15. Nesh
16. None really
17. Here it tends to be an earth bank with a wall or spiky hedge on the top.
18. Look at those cows standing in that barn!
19. I'm frozen (short o sound - frozzen) and peckish
20. Windy
21. Bobby Dazzler!
22. Diolch in Wales, Ta in England
23. 'How do' or 'Now then'
24. None, though trousers are singular in Welsh, as in "I bought a new trouser!"
25. Lefty, if at all
26. SHREWSbree (like the little animal), NEWcassl (short a), GLAZgo (short a)
27. Butty or doorstop, depending on the thickness
28. Rotter
29. None
30. 'Face like February' if miserable. 'Having your face on' also means looking sulky.
31. Taties (long a)
32. Crumpet
33. Jammy

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