Colloquial local expressions.

[Fredo76]

Where I grew up riding in Tucson, tubular tires were called "sew-ups".

Colin: Areye 'ertinfer tubulars?
Me: Huh?
Colin: Do you need tires?

 

[Jotheboat]

Ffs, that wasn't colloquialisms that was Scot Squad, hilarious.

Slick, nice boat in your avatar, what is it? A fisher?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

’Starved’; Cold, in parts of South Yorkshire
’Nesh’; again, cold, but I most hear it from people who live in the Royston/Barnsley area

 

[cyberknight]

Batty = fat

 

[Jotheboat]

Barnpot (northern) - idiot, fool
Barnpotty - where and on what I spent much of my childhood.

 

[Gwylan]

Around Bristol add an L to the end of some, certain words
Examples include SarahL and AsdaL.
The knack was knowing which words required this modification and which ones didn't

 

[oldwheels]

Bits are added on in many place names here ie Ardnamurachan where the middle letter a is added in speech.

 

[oldwheels]

In the days of doon the watter fur the Glesga Fair the local lasses chatted up some of the lads working on the big yachts.
Yofa yot?
Whit yot yoffa?

 

[Slick]

Slick, nice boat in your avatar, what is it? A fisher?

Yes.

My father in law was a commercial fishermen all his days and had a great talent for model making.

I always loved that one, and the stories he could tell about her life and tribulations.

I since inherited it, and it still takes pride of place in my home.

 

[gbb]

We were only talking colloquialisms the other day at work.

As a teenager in Notts, you described a fellow teenager as 'a young old boy'

Which I assume is a colloquialism....

 

[Dave7]

Barnpot (northern) - idiot, fool
Barnpotty - where and on what I spent much of my childhood.

Serious question.
Is that the correct spelling?
All my life I thought it was barMpot.

 

[Dave7]

Bits are added on in many place names here ie Ardnamurachan where the middle letter a is added in speech.

Didn't realise you lived there.
We had a great holiday there. As birdwatchers and nature lovers we saw lots of things that are rare/don't exist down here.
We rented a beautiful wooden cabin. A bit in the middle of nowhere but we enjoyed it.

 

[presta]

People in Birmingham say 'crips' instead of 'crisps'.

In Birmingham a bison is something you wash your hands in.

 

[cyberknight]

for my sins

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bl5G2gDMDo

 

[Cycleops]

In Birmingham a bison is something you wash your hands in.

Reminds me of the old Enoch &Eli black country joke:
So, been fishing in the canal Eli? Did yer catch anything?
Yeah I caught a whale.
Whadya mean a whale? How do ya know it was a whale?
'Cos It had spokes in it.