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Thread #131842   Message #2983394
Posted By: terrier
09-Sep-10 - 03:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: Phrases that don't travel
Subject: RE: BS: Phrases that don't travel
In Wigan (UK) I was visiting the local 'chippie' (fish and chip shop) to get some lunch and a customer ordered "pie and chips and a dollop of pea wet"
In Bolton (UK)I found a new word for a certain type of bread rolls, they were referred to as 'tits'.
The first time I asked a passer by directions to a place in Rochdale, he kept mentioning what sounded like 'rorborts'. At first I thought he meant traffic islands, roundabouts, but then realised he was meaning 'traffic lights'.