What about 'the area'. As in: "My ball's gone down the area😟' ( The space outside the windows of a basement flat - usually inaccessible) Another north Londonism , I think.
"Ginnel" was most common where we lived before this (W.Yorks). OH's family always referred to an alley as a "nicket affair" after being directed to someone's house in Bradford thus: "...then you go through the nicket affair at the end of the street..."
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Nome, Alaska - a British naval captain was charting the coastline and put ?Name against an unidentified peninsula. This got transcribed to Nome (I expect the sea was choppy and his writing not the best) and thus the nearby settlement got its name.
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire - an early explorer asked a native ‘What is this place called?’ but, understandably, he did not fully comprehend but thought he was being asked what are you doing and replied ‘I am cutting leaves”. And that is a loose translation of Abidjan.
Chicago - allegedly Native American for ‘the place that smells of onions’.
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26 synonyms for "alley" in the thesaurus...
"Ginnel" was most common where we lived before this (W.Yorks). OH's family always referred to an alley as a "nicket affair" after being directed to someone's house in Bradford thus: "...then you go through the nicket affair at the end of the street..."
Nome, Alaska - a British naval captain was charting the coastline and put ?Name against an unidentified peninsula. This got transcribed to Nome (I expect the sea was choppy and his writing not the best) and thus the nearby settlement got its name.
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire - an early explorer asked a native ‘What is this place called?’ but, understandably, he did not fully comprehend but thought he was being asked what are you doing and replied ‘I am cutting leaves”. And that is a loose translation of Abidjan.
Chicago - allegedly Native American for ‘the place that smells of onions’.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7702913.stm