Nivard hit upon one part of everyday life which has different names across the country - namely the humble bread roll. As he rightly says, in Leicestershire it is a cob, as it is in Notts and Derbys. But go to Nuneaton just over the Warwickshire border, and they use the word batch. Nip up to Sheffield and it's a bread cake, and over the Pennines you ask for a barm Elsewhere it's a bap. I can remember as a child, when on holiday out of Nottingham, I wanted an ice lolly and asked for a sucker. Nobody understood me, and I also got some very funny looks. Brian Binns _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2112/4782 - Release Date: 02/02/12

Likewise asking for an "Okie" gets some odd looks As does "cheers luv" on occasion Another way we could tell Leicesterites was if they said "Ta" by way of thanks Then of course one of my customers who always left with "ta-ra a bit" Wonder where he came from <vbg> He got quite miffed when I called him a Brummie :-) Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Nivard hit upon one part of everyday life which has different names across > the country - namely the humble bread roll. > > As he rightly says, in Leicestershire it is a cob, as it is in Notts and > Derbys. But go to Nuneaton just over the Warwickshire border, and they use > the word batch. Nip up to Sheffield and it's a bread cake, and over the > Pennines you ask for a barm Elsewhere it's a bap. > > I can remember as a child, when on holiday out of Nottingham, I wanted an > ice lolly and asked for a sucker. Nobody understood me, and I also got some > very funny looks. > > > > Brian Binns

On the subject of Leicester dialect There is Leicestershire words, phrases, and proverbs. Edited, with additions and an introd. (1881) Available from www.archive.org Select Texts So you can either read online or download your own copy should you not wish to employ an interpretor <g> Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)