1. The space between two buildings containing a footpath: Alley
2. A knitted item of clothing worn over a shirt, without buttons: Jumper
3. The act of not going to something that you're supposed to go to: Bunking off.
4. Playground game in which someone is "it" and has to touch someone else who then becomes "it.":Tic or Tick.
5. Playground truce term when you want a break from the above games: Breakseez (not sure of spelling).
6. Playground term you say when you want to claim something: Bagsy
7. Slip-on shoes worn for school sports in the days before trainers: Pumps.
8. Small round bread: Bread roll, or roll. 'Baps' is a female human anatomical term...
9. Sweet course that follows the main course: Pudding
10. Scone: pronounced to rhyme with "gone" or with "moan": Moan (Although almost everyone else I know seems to go the other way on this, including my Dad, but not my Mum.)
11. Generic term for a bird: Bird.
12. Round food stuff made with batter on a griddle, which is brown on the outside: No idea.
13. A delicacy that you feel is particularly local to you: Not that I've ever drunk any, but it would probably be lager. Wrexham was the first place in Britain where lager was brewed.
14. Term of endearment: I don't use one. I don't remember anyone else in Wrexham using one either. When I first visited Bunn in north Devon, I was genuinely taken aback when the woman in the village shop referred to me as "moi luvver". (I'm sure I'd remember...)
15. Someone who's soft and easily feels the cold: Poof.
16. Tourists: Don't have a word for that. This obviously only applies to people from tourist areas.
17. A field boundary: Depends on what it is made of. Mostly plants - hedge; mostly wooden stakes - fence; wire mesh - fence; mostly metal stakes - metal fence or railings; mostly stone or brick - wall.
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 cow shed! (I don't know why I would be using an exclamation mark though.)
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 cold (or freezing if very cold) and hungry (or starving if very hungry).
20. Your friends invite you to enter a haunted house: you demur. What do they call you, by way of a derisive taunt? Don't know.
21. A man who dresses flashily with lots of expensive jewellery is a ____: If he was black, then a pimp; if he was white, then a chav (albeit a rich one).
22. What do you say in a shop when you are handed your change? Thanks very much.
23. Generic friendly greeting: Hello.
24. Slang term for a pair of trousers: At school, many people said "kecks".
25. Slang term for left-handed: I'd just say left-handed, but my Dad (who is left-handed at golf, or at least was when he played) sometimes says "cack-handed". This might be a naval term.
26. Pronunciation of Shrewsbury? Newcastle? Glasgow? SHROZEburree (although everyone from Shrewsbury seems to say SHROOSburree); NewCASSull-upon-Tyne but NEWcassull-under-Lyme; GLAZgo.
27. Two pieces of bread with a filling: Sandwiches
28. A playground way of saying someone is out of order: Don't know.
29. Dialect terms for hands, ears, face – and, indeed, for any other body parts you care to name: The only dialect terms for body parts I can think of are for rude ones!
30. Terms for someone who looks miserable: Don't know. Maybe all my friends looked happy.
31. Potatoes: Potatoes
32. Pale round food stuff with a brown base, lots of holes in it, which you serve hot with butter: Crumpets, even though my mother despite all evidence to the contrary persists in calling them 'pikelets'.
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