You say “sweets”, I say “spice”

pansyface

What a funny language English is.

When I was young, anything chewy and small and sweet was called spice. Bought by the half pennyworth from those big glass jars at the corner shop.

BenCotto

Would you kindly pass me a sweet, in Leicester-speak, ‘yack uz a rock’. I once asked a local person if he thought yack for throw might come from the Latin word iacere. I was feeding strawberries to dogs, I fear.

pansyface

Very upmarket in Leicester.🙂

I’ve been trying to teach my OH to understand the local dialect for close to 50 years now. He’s almost there.

Early on, we paid an unannounced visit to one of my mother’s oldest friends when we found ourselves nearby one afternoon.
Rang the bell.
She came to the door. 

Hello! said she.
Hello! said we.
Are you stopping? said she.
Stopping what? said he.
🙄

Uff

pansyface said:

What a funny language English is.

When I was young, anything chewy and small and sweet was called spice. Bought by the half pennyworth from those big glass jars at the corner shop.

I came from a north Derbyshire mining town, very broad Derbyshire and we called them tuts pansyface. 

pansyface

Never heard of tuts before.😊

Uff

I suppose it's slang for toffees

JennyJ

Spice when I was a little 'un too, but then, I think that wasn't too far from @pansyface .

pansyface

No, we could have yacked a rock from one to t’other.😊

Bee witched

There's a sweet shop in Edinburgh with the most fantastic name ...

'Boilings For The Connoisseur'

Until I moved to Scotland I'd never heard of boilings.

Bee x

pansyface

Boilings are only for the strong of tooth, as I recall.😬

MikeOxgreen

JennyJ said:

Spice when I was a little 'un too, but then, I think that wasn't too far from @pansyface .

Are y'allreet luv? 

I bet we could could fill a big post with Yorkshirisms.

Put t' wood int 'ole.

Ya mek a better door than a winda, if you got int' front at telly.

Aye, sithi.