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I'm quite familiar with the study they cite in the article - http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/lexical-variation/bread/ http://projects.alc.man

I'm quite familiar with the study they cite in the article - http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/lexical-variation/bread/ http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/lexical-v... - because: 1. I know the guy at Manchester University who runs the infrastructure for that site 2. That same individual and I had a multi-year argument about the nature of a "teacake", which to me always has raisins in it. To him that's a fruit teacake. This settled the argument: it's just regional variation. The study did not just look at names for bread. Favourite other highlights: 1. Evening meal names: http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/lexical-variation/evening-meal/ http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/lexical-v... 2. The game where you knock on a door and run away http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/lexical-variation/prank/ http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/lexical-v... 3. The (Irish descended) whether "book" and "spook" rhyme: http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/phonological-variation/book-spook/ http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/phonologi... 4. Whether "class" and "farce" rhyme (also likely indicates pronunciation of bath, garage, grass, etc.): http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/phonological-variation/class-farce/ http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/phonologi... 5. How acceptable sentences that break the rules of grammar are: http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/syntactic-variation/theyre-just-things-what-weve-used/ http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ukdialectmaps/syntactic... Definitely encourage people to have a look through some of the menus.

ChrisRR 8y ago
1. Dinner 2. Knock knock ginger 3. No 4. Yes 5. Unacceptable
NolF 8y ago
5. as a non native speaker, what on earth does ‘they’re just things what we’ve used’ even mean? I've read these sentence many times and I still can't figure it out...
- OscarCunningham 8y ago
  The same as "they're just things that we've used".
- madacoo 8y ago
  "They're just things that we've used" means the same thing, if that helps. Spatula, pot, spoon, bowl. Those are things that we have used [today to make and eat soup]. For some reason, particularly round my parts, 'that' is often swapped for 'what', e.g. "Places what I've gone to."
NeedMoreTea 8y ago
1. Tea 2. knock and run 3. The two northerners in this household would disagree on this answer. I say no 4. No, of course not 5. unacceptable My grandad went further: Water and walker did not rhyme (water rhymed with batter), neither did father and farther.
knorthfield 8y ago
There are also variations of words for alleyway. For example when I moved to Yorkshire I was amused to hear people use the word ginnel. In Norfolk I think they use twitten. Probably many others around the Isles.

ChrisRR 8y ago

1. Dinner 2. Knock knock ginger 3. No 4. Yes 5. Unacceptable

NolF 8y ago

5. as a non native speaker, what on earth does ‘they’re just things what we’ve used’ even mean? I've read these sentence many times and I still can't figure it out...

OscarCunningham 8y ago
The same as "they're just things that we've used".
madacoo 8y ago
"They're just things that we've used" means the same thing, if that helps. Spatula, pot, spoon, bowl. Those are things that we have used [today to make and eat soup]. For some reason, particularly round my parts, 'that' is often swapped for 'what', e.g. "Places what I've gone to."

NeedMoreTea 8y ago

1. Tea 2. knock and run 3. The two northerners in this household would disagree on this answer. I say no 4. No, of course not 5. unacceptable My grandad went further: Water and walker did not rhyme (water rhymed with batter), neither did father and farther.

knorthfield 8y ago

There are also variations of words for alleyway. For example when I moved to Yorkshire I was amused to hear people use the word ginnel. In Norfolk I think they use twitten. Probably many others around the Isles.