People calling each other "duck"

Ay up me ode tater

Ark at it our *insert name here*

Its black ovva Bills Mothers

Ay-yer gorra wi ya?

Just a few said quite ofter around where i like. And yes, 'duck' is used a lot of the time too.

I used to work with a bloke who was born and bread in Ilson (Ilkeston), the slang they use there is crazy.

Anyway id type more, but ive gorra bone in me leg
 
I've heard it used rarely in Sheffield, it's intensity increases if you head south from there. So Sheffield is probably the north eastern frontier. On the west side I've never heard it in the north west so presumably the north western boarder lies somewhere just north of stoke on Trent although where maybe someone could say? No idea how far south it spreads, is it in Birmingham?
 
'Duck' is common use in Staffordshire/Derbyshire and further North, from my experience if you go north of Stone in Staffordshire you will meet people who say Duck, further south than this (Stafford for example) it is not common. Nobody in Wolverhampton says it from my years living here!

Here though you're more likely to get people saying 'alright ****?' which is even stranger and especially so when said to someone who thinks being called a **** is an insult....

(the word that is starred out is the c word that describes a male chicken)
 
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Banzai_Joe said:
I was dragged up on the border of Nottingham and derby (D.H. Lawrence town btw)
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Ahhh, Eastwood. Lovely place(!) :p;)

I've never heard 'duck' in Sheffield, only 'love'. Was rather odd first time a bloke said it to me

I never knew its origin, so it's nice to know a possible source.

Do people still say 'pet' in Tyneside?
 
Spook187 said:
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since when was the midlands in the north lol

Love working in manchester the old lady's who serve us breakfast in our hotel,what you want for breakfast ****.

Edit,filter wont let me put that in.
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Everything north of the Watford Gap services is The North. "The Midlands" only exists for people who are in it - i.e. those who don't want to say they're from the North (and with good reason) but can't get away with saying they're in the South.
 
Its used by the people in nuneaton/bedworth but not really by people from Coventry itself.


'Love' and 'Mate' are most common.

'chick' and 'chuck' gets quite a lot of usage thinking about it now
 
Deadbeat said:
Everything north of the Watford Gap services is The North. "The Midlands" only exists for people who are in it - i.e. those who don't want to say they're from the North (and with good reason) but can't get away with saying they're in the South.
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blasphemy :mad:
 
simulatorman said:
I need an interpreter. :D
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First one is just saying hello to someone.

2nd and 3rd are what we say when it looks like its about to rain.

4th is asking somebody if they have the wife with them whilst out (shopping, ect)

:)

I call sweets tuffies, and alley ways are known as twitchells. A sucker is an ice cream.
 
"Duck" is used occasionally in Lincolnshire, along with "now then" as a greeting.

"Now then, duck, how's things?"
 
In Sheffield we're right on the Love / Duck frontier. Duck is more of a midlands things.

In Chesterfield a cob is a sandwich. In Sheffield a cob is what corn comes on. Every 'cob shop' that has been mistakenly opened in Sheffield has failed because nobody knows what they're supposed to be.

It's like the jocks and the geordies round these parts. They call us Dee Daas (because we don't say thee and thaa properly apparrently). We call them soft southern ********.

Midlands being the north-south no-man's-land that everyone south of the Watford gap and north of Dronfield disowns... (adjust limits as per local preference)
 
Uriel said:
In Chesterfield a cob is a sandwich. In Sheffield a cob is what corn comes on. Every 'cob shop' that has been mistakenly opened in Sheffield has failed because nobody knows what they're supposed to be.
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In Stoke we use the phrase "What's up, got a cob on?"

This goes back to when ladies tampons were called cobs and if they were in a mood they were asked if they had a cob on.
 
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