Give me your local words.

[Kristie]

Where I grew up, every soft drink was a "Coke."

"You want a Coke?"
"Yeah, sure."
"A'ite. What kind?"
"Dr. Pepper."

I hate that one! One of my pet peeves.

Ooops! If it's any consolation, I don't drink Coke...eh...soft drinks anymore. They're just sugar water.

I recall a "stoop" as being a low step-up to a porch or maybe some sort of low place where you can sit. Not sure, really.

And I still have a cow-lick if I don't comb my hair carefully.

The only pop I drink is Sprite, but I sure as hell don't call it a Coke!

I've heard stoop being used as you describe. And, my brother has a horrible cow-lick!
I feel so close to you right now.

[FBM]

I remember the confusion I had as a teenager when a cousin visited from way up north somewhere like Michigan or somewhere. She said she wanted a "pop." I thought she wanted me to hit her.


Turns out she didn't.

[Kristie]

I remember the confusion I had as a teenager when a cousin visited from way up north somewhere like Michigan or somewhere. She said she wanted a "pop." I thought she wanted me to hit her.


Turns out she didn't.

I hear it all ways around here. Soda, pop, soda-pop, Coke, soft drink.

[FBM]

I remember the confusion I had as a teenager when a cousin visited from way up north somewhere like Michigan or somewhere. She said she wanted a "pop." I thought she wanted me to hit her.


Turns out she didn't.

I hear it all ways around here. Soda, pop, soda-pop, Coke, soft drink.

You're what we call "multi-cultural."

[Don't Panic]

I'd give mine, but it's a whole different language out here, like these omadhauns canna speak proper béarla

Hehe, yeah, and with being from Limerick I could fill a book with these, the biggest one is calling trainers/runners/sneakers/whatever tackies(phonetic spelling, usually seen as takis)

[Bella Fortuna]

I asked what kind of sodas they had in a restaurant in London. I got a blank look. Surely "soda" is a pretty well-known term, even if not used locally?

[Pappa]

I asked what kind of sodas they had in a restaurant in London. I got a blank look. Surely "soda" is a pretty well-known term, even if not used locally?

They probably thought you were referring to soda water.

[Callan]

I'd give mine, but it's a whole different language out here, like these omadhauns canna speak proper béarla

Hehe, yeah, and with being from Limerick I could fill a book with these, the biggest one is calling trainers/runners/sneakers/whatever tackies(phonetic spelling, usually seen as takis)

Piffle.
Trainers/runners/sneakers etc are ALL daps.
That is all.

[Audley Strange]

Trainers - Sannys (derivation of sand-shoes for some reason)

[Pappa]

I'd give mine, but it's a whole different language out here, like these omadhauns canna speak proper béarla

Hehe, yeah, and with being from Limerick I could fill a book with these, the biggest one is calling trainers/runners/sneakers/whatever tackies(phonetic spelling, usually seen as takis)

Piffle.
Trainers/runners/sneakers etc are ALL daps.
That is all.

Yep, they're daps here too.

[Callan]

Oi bin smoovin the cat.

[Svartalf]

I remember the confusion I had as a teenager when a cousin visited from way up north somewhere like Michigan or somewhere. She said she wanted a "pop." I thought she wanted me to hit her.


Turns out she didn't.

but did you hit on her?

[Svartalf]

I'd give mine, but it's a whole different language out here, like these omadhauns canna speak proper béarla

Hehe, yeah, and with being from Limerick I could fill a book with these, the biggest one is calling trainers/runners/sneakers/whatever tackies(phonetic spelling, usually seen as takis)

By the way, is calling idiots "gits" a Dublin/Irish specificity? Only in the City on the Liffey did I ever hear that word.

[Callan]

Git is a British thing too, except here a git is more usually a bastard than an idiot.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I'd give mine, but it's a whole different language out here, like these omadhauns canna speak proper béarla

Hehe, yeah, and with being from Limerick I could fill a book with these, the biggest one is calling trainers/runners/sneakers/whatever tackies(phonetic spelling, usually seen as takis)

By the way, is calling idiots "gits" a Dublin/Irish specificity? Only in the City on the Liffey did I ever hear that word.

Wiki to the rescue!

Something else not mentioned in there is that it is often used to describe someone that is dirty and scruffy as well as/instead of stupid. It is a very general abuse term for any disagreeable kind of person.

In Nottingham, we say "get" instead, as mentioned in the article.

We say "bogger" as well - an alternative form of "bugger", but usually only when not referring specifically to sodomy. eg. We will say, "E's a daft bogger," "I boggered that job up," or "Y' know bogger all abaat it!" but when used in its proper context, we say, "There 'e was, in the bogs, buggerin' 'is bum chum!"