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Where are you from?

BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
edited September 2020 in The potting shed
This quiz is a bit of fun, and was accurate in identifying my home location. You might have to register with the New York Times to get started but I’m sure it’s all above board.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html?register=email&auth=register-email

Rutland, England
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  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    @BenCotto  I did it - out of curiosity.  It told me I was from outside the UK.  I had maternal grandparents from Dublin and paternal grandparents from London.  The end map came up with London and nothing for Ireland - anywhere.  I'm from NZ!!
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Where I grew up in rural Pennsylvania the cry of submission word was 'uncle'.  Funny.. I haven't thought of that in years.  We don't let kids ruff and tumble on the school playground these days.. so maybe the words have dropped from common vocabulary.  My boys certainly don't have one other than 'stop!' or if they are home 'mommy!'.
    Utah, USA.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Pax in my corner of London too.
    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited September 2020
    Feinites/ faynights. Never seen it written so can't spell it.
    Fainites - found it!
    C19: from fains I I decline, from feine feign, from Old French se feindre in the sense: back out, esp of battle
    You had to cross your fingers when you said it or it didn't count.
    NW London.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    pansyface said:
    Here’s an interesting little list of variations.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truce_term

    🙂

    I found what we used to say in the playground down in mid Suffolk ... ‘exes’ ... never found anyone else that said it ... apparently it’s very localised. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We used to say 'no slogs' which meant no consequences. Can't find any record of it anywhere so it might have been restricted to our street. We played in the street then😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • SkylarksSkylarks Posts: 379
    Everyone bring a food item for the ‘fuddle’. 

    A few years ago, I ran a social group and used the word fuddle on the Christmas event. I had no idea lots of people didn’t know what it meant. They did get the gist of it. 
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    ..twittens for alleyways/lanes....? One on the way to school was called 'the twittening'...

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    ...no, that's a chocolate bar....

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    @B3 - "fainites" in my bit of Hertfordshire, too (between Watford & St Albans).
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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