If I offered you a croggy - would you know what I meant?

[ColinJ]

English dialects have so many unique terms for things. Just think of a bread roll, and how many terms there are for that - cob, bap, roll, barmcake, breadcake, breadbun spring to mind just off the top of my head.

They call them 'batches' in Coventry. When I first moved here I asked for a chip batch in the local chip shop and they didn't have a clue what I was talking about. When I worked in Burnley, our canteen used to sell what they called oven bottoms which are basically large barmcakes/cobs/batches ...

 

[Maz]

It always amazes me that so many English people are so ignorant of different words used in their country, I feel it is indicative of narrow-mindedness and the priority given to certain "large urban languages" within the media, but mostly narrow-mindedness.

Not sure it's ignorance or narrow-mindedness. There are far too many regional words in the English language to know them all, and the same word can have different meanings in different regions.
Until recently, I didn't know what a bawbag was, but I was told what it was by some Scots.

 

[Maz]

They call them 'batches' in Coventry. When I first moved here I asked for a chip batch in the local chip shop and they didn't have a clue what I was talking about. When I worked in Burnley, our canteen used to sell what they called oven bottoms which are basically large barmcakes/cobs/batches ...

Reminds me of when I went to a chippy at Ewood Park (Blackburn). Me and a dozen other Blades in the shop were winding up the assistant asking for Greasy Chip Butties (Sheff Utd song). I think he called them Barms or something.

 

[top-tube]

I went to uni in Hull in the early 80's (I was a 'tefal' as opposed to a 'lerrrrcal'), and one of my abiding memories is boarding a corporation bus, sitting on the top deck on a hot summer's day - opposite me 2 teenage girls sat, with the windows open, and legs up on the seat in front. One said to the other 'Ee, I can really feel the wind on me' kippers now'. Always wondered what she meant.

 

[gbb]

Croggy was widely used by kids in Notts in the 70s.
TBF i hadnt thought about exactly what a croggy is, a backie, bum over the handlebars, crossbar ride...but i seem to remember it was a bum over the handlebars ride.

Anyway. lots of things are regional. When i came from Notts to Cambs in the late 70s, i went into a chipshop in Peterborough and asked for chips and gravy. the girl looked at me like i was a moron It was years before i saw it on any chippie menu.

 

[Piemaster]

On a similar line, anyone know what a 'pattie' is?

 

[byegad]

Yup! done a lot in my youth.

 

[byegad]

Yes, born in 1951, I could tell the Stockton-on -Tees dialect/accent from Thornaby and that from the Middlesbrough one; and there's not 3 miles between them and Billingham is 4 miles from Middlesbrough and they had there own accent too!.

Now people are more mobile those differences are not there.

 

[summerdays]

I think I would have guessed what a croggy was but round here its a backy.

I grew up always using the wrong colloquial terms as an incomer.

 

[BigEvo]

I'm from Billingham and the wife's from Sunderland. Croggy in Billingham, a backer in Sunderland. Either way you gotta love it........

 

[Vikeonabike]

I don't care what it's called if I catch you doing it I'll give you a £30 ticket for it. Naughty cyclists!

 

[slowmotion]

Vike, that's straight out of The Beano!

 

[slowmotion]

It always amazes me that so many English people are so ignorant of different words used in their country, I feel it is indicative of narrow-mindedness and the priority given to certain "large urban languages" within the media, but mostly narrow-mindedness.

And, yes, I would have known what you were speakng about on this occassion. Or at least have been able to work it out in the context of the conversation had I not, or enquired as to what it was...rather than to feign horror at using a quirkly word, or tried to ridicule it's use, as I feel a lot of people from other English regions would have done.

You are Flying Monkey and ICMFP.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Not quite ther same but when I was in Italy last year, I asked for a Latte. The guy just looked at me like I was a Moron and gave me a Cappucino instead.

Anyway, Croggy?? I have never heard of it, but on reading this thread, I now know what it is along with the other terms given.
It would be called a Backie here, but I don't know what the handlebar ride you describe would be called.
A Frontie??