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Thread #36713 Message #3460624
Posted By: foggers
02-Jan-13 - 08:32 PM
Thread Name: Folklore/language: Of snickets and ginnels
Subject: RE: Of snickets and ginnels
Ooo good thread! I mainly grew up in N Derybshire where the term for the tunnel between two terraced houses was gennel with a soft G. Then I went to be a student in Sheffield and encountered the term ginnel with hard G. In mid Derbyshire only a few miles south of my home town the term twitchell was used, which others on this thread associate with the neighbouring county of Nottinghamshire.
Now, what about generic terms for sweeties? In Chesterfield I grew up calling them "spice" but just a few miles south in Tibshelf/Alfreton its "tuffees".