Regional names for things

[cathaldus]

referring then to historical words.  May I suggest a visit to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and eke to the Statutes of England.   Such lovely words as feoffoments, appurtenances relating thereto,  ipso facto,  inter alia,  et al.  give such colour to our beautiful English language,  ever growing and maturing. It is quite happy to accept "naughty" words and legitimize them (in due course),
it gives credence to "slang" and the idea of learning a new word per day is still a good one! My favourites?   Juxtaposition,  altercation and etcetera!!

[Clincher]

For the first time, last night I watched the film 'The Queen' with Helen Mirren in the name part.
I loved the bit where the Queen went off on her own in a Landrover and the car became damaged and undrivable in a river which she tried to ford.
'Bugger it'  I heard her say.
Wonderful
I do hope that that scene was entirely true.
If it was, I expect she got it from D of E

[bodger]

Back in 1937/8, my parents moved from Sheffield to a place called Barnside, near Hepworth, Yorks, water was from a well, and the hot water was provided my filling a boiler connected to the fire grate, my mother had no problem filling the boiler but when she needed to use hot water, she had difficulty getting it out of the boiler, she asked a neighbour how did she resolve this problem, her reply was " I get the Piggin", mother went home wondering what porcine animals had to do with hot water, it wasn't till dad came home from work and explained that a "Piggin" is a Yorkshire dialect word for a Ladling Can, a "Spetch" is an Elastoplast, and "Lakin", means not working, holiday or playing, i still say Hudderesfielt, and we don't use G at the end of a word while i'm thinkin abhat it
   Happy School Days  Bodger

[Erato]

It's old, but a good reference for Americanisms is H.L. Mencken's "The American Language."

[EDO]

Try this on US_ers [ie. Americans or just Yanks!!]

I'll put your Port in the Boot!

I said it once to visitors from Brainerd, Minnesota.

They nearly had a coronary ............................

of course, I believe that in their lingo, it would be -
"I'll put your suitcase in the Trunk"

As for asking them, if they would like a XXXX
that was too much!!!!

EDO

[Bill749]

Down our way a garden shed is called a lodge and a drainage ditch is a dyke (we won't go into the other meaning of dyke!  ).

Bill

[Clincher]

I call my garden shed 'sanctuary'