This is interestingIt’s funny you should say that. I posted this picture with a line I drew where I think South of the line we say barm and north they say muffin.
Abbey Hey is pretty much on the line!
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and im very sure you were right about everything EXCEPT for this lolI shall have a drink from my sky blue mug with the appropriate motif - AS I SUSPECTED I WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING. The perfect accompaniment to swill down a chip muffin.
More concerningly on that map is who exactly are the 4% of absolute notrights who call it a teacakeThis is interesting
https://www.ourdialects.uk/maps/bread/
If you zoom into areas it seems that east manchester does tend to use both
And if you use the wrong name you end up in wythenshawe hospital which is why you conveniently marked itIt’s funny you should say that. I posted this picture with a line I drew where I think South of the line we say barm and north they say muffin.
Abbey Hey is pretty much on the line!
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They also say ‘lunch’. As you say; freaks!This is interesting
https://www.ourdialects.uk/maps/bread/
If you zoom into areas it seems that east manchester does tend to use both
notice also ancoats which is now occupied by many non mancs and southerners the terms roll and bun has started to appear, the freaks
Haha I live just round the corner from there in Baguley.A
And if you use the wrong name you end up in wythenshawe hospital which is why you conveniently marked it
More concerningly on that map is who exactly are the 4% of absolute notrights who call it a teacake
if you ended up with toast you got away with it, i remember going to a chippy in harrogate after kicking out time and they asked me if i wanted a chip cobI’ll never forget being hungover as fuck and on a massive comedown as a student having gone to some house party in Leeds. Went for a fry up the morning after as you do and some proper Yorkshire old woman working in the greasy spoon was screaming at me “YET WOT BREADCAAAKE WI THA’”
I thought maybe I’d short circuited a few brain cells, couldn’t understand a fucking word.
Think I ended up with toast.
No, you were in a brothel but you really don't want to know what they were offering :-)if you ended up with toast you got away with it, i remember going to a chippy in harrogate after kicking out time and they asked me if i wanted a chip cob
if you ended up with toast you got away with it, i remember going to a chippy in harrogate after kicking out time and they asked me if i wanted a chip cob