Idioms

[Dark Angel]

What idioms are particular to the region you come from? For instance, in my country and in neighbouring countries, they sometimes say, "What is your good name?"

[lucyed44]

I am told that my brummy way of saying 'go a walk' or 'been a walk' is unusual - most people of course say im go for a walk or been for a walk!

[Emily Ball]

Brummies will often say 'goinawalk' or 'binawalk' but not necessarily. It's just sloppy speech.

[Dark Angel]

Also, sometimes people say "Ask from ...." instead of "Ask ....." when they tell you to ask someone for something, which I find awkward.

[hellywellywo]

i'm a west country girlie and we ask the question "Where have you been to?"  if some is up a ladder, for example we might say "What are you doing all the way up there then?"  Which is quite a long way around a question I suppose.

[larakitten]

We have lots up here in north east scotland. an example could be "fit like?" meaning how are you.  A typical answer to that would be "aye chavvin" meaning still going strong!!!  Its a unique language we talk up here!

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[Kay]

As a Welshie, I've got the habit of saying "Where to are you going" or when wanting to know where a place is.."Where to's that then?" )))))

[lizzierose]

welsh again. went to cry instead of cried and coming to rain instead of starting to rain

[rooftrouser]

Sadly, the Sussex dialect seems to have died out but I can remember relatives living in the country having a soft rural burr, pleasant but not as strong as those further west. (I was a Brightonian towny where speech was closer to London, including some use of the rhyming slang).The idioms seem to have gone too but we used to call connecting lanes or alleys between walls or hedges "twittens" and call out "fainites" as a truce term when playing games. I still say "It's black over Will's mum's" to call attention to dark sky threatening rain although I have no clue to the identity of Will. Not sure if the use of "kiddy" to refer to a youth or indeed male of any age is local to Sussex only?

[smee.tracey]

Derbyshire has a language all of it's own:
Ay up me duck y'rate - hello, how are you
Ows like a yard o'pump watter - he's very thin (water should have 2ts)
Oo were e wi, were e wi imsen? Who was he with, was he by himself?
Gitty/Ginnel - small connecting pathway
There are millions of others.
I live in Norfolk now so boy do I have problems!