It depends where you live

Not all of us 'in the north' say those things, ethel! Blimey, talk about generalisation...

Im not saying it in a derogatory way ana and if you live in the north east you will no doubt recognise the dialect.

I don't like any dialect but I know it exists and many people are proud to use it, there is a society for the Geordie dialect. I try to use basic English especially where my DGD is listening and for work I must use correct English. I enjoy hearing the Geordie accent on Catherine cookson films for example.

Many people are very proud that they speak 'geordie' and I have no problem speaking it at home, what I don't like is 'Geordie slang' and bastardisation of the English language in any form.

Ah, but you said in your original post 'we in the north' not 'we in the north east' - big difference!

To be accurate, you said 'in the north we say'.

depends by what you mean by 'the north', Im referring to the Newcastle area and south east Northumberland. I really don't know much about other dialects apart from what I hear on tv or by meeting a person from another area and I will ask them where they come from. No offence intended to anyone reading this.

Friends invited us to supper one evening. I'm going back a few years now.
I said to my DH, oh, its only supper, we had better have our dinner before we go.
So we did, and were amazed when we arrived to find to find it was full four courses, couldnt believe it. We were expecting a bit of something on toast and a few nibbles!!

What about making a pot of tea? Neighbours in the Midlands called, saying they had mashed the tea.
In Liverpool they wet it!
A packed lunch could be your 'snap' or your 'carry-out'.

It was you who said 'the north' ethel!

I'm from 'the north' too, but not Newcastle, and I don't agree that all the expressions in your list are common to all 'northerners'.

When we took baby DD1 'oop north' to introduce her to the Yorkshire rellies I overheard MIL telling one of the aunts I was 'right fussy with the bairn.'

As a laid-back seventies mum I was a bit put out until DH pointed out that fussy meant proud.

Rosesarered* Janerowena An alley is not a "snicket" or a "twitten" where I came from in Leicester it was an "entry".

Same happened to us Mrs Mopp our neighbours asked us to join them for what we thought were drinks and nibbles. We ate our dinner that evening but didn't have our usual pud to leave room for the nibbles. We arrived to a full 3 course meal.

I grew up "knowing" that a lounge was what you would find in a hotel or on a cruise ship. Rooms in a house were called sitting rooms or, if rather more formal, drawing rooms. Everyone in NZ calls the main room in the house the lounge – and what I would call a sofa is invariably known as a couch. I am doing my best to fit in – I don't want t confuse my grandchildren. (I am even getting to grips to saying yogurt with a long "o".)

I say yogurt with a short O as in Pot.

A sofa is a settee, absent! As part of a three piece suite

Up to London.

Dessert

Mid day meal - lunch

Evening meal - tea.

Sandwiches - sarnies or sangers.

Delicious - lush

Dinner - something cooked i.e. Sunday dinner.

Front room, back room. in certain company - sitting room, dining room.

An extra room in Victorian houses - breakfast room.

Brewing the tea.

How are you - "All right."

General term of kindness - love.

mrs mopp I would never have a three-piece suite anywhere in my house, but if I lived in the UK, I would have three sofas in my drawing room. As I live in NZ, I have three couches in my lounge.

I thought an entry was the bit in a row of terraced houses to get to the back doors etc or storing a bike. The narrow footpaths leading from one road to another along the backs of houses are jetties or jitties!

Was it Kiwis who invented the term "couch potato"?

PS I think it does kids good (improves their vocab) to hear words from elsewhere, though they can pull funny faces about it. MiniB asked what britches were when I referred to her jodphurs thus, even though I'd said "riding britches".

Supper/ dinner - evening meal
Tea- 4 o'clock drink of tea with cake ( I wish).
Never can understand when people say they are going to cook tea at 8 p m.
Sandwich=sandwich.
Lounge= large public seating area in hotel or airport.
Oh dear I sound like Hyacinth

When I was growing up in South West London in the 50s playing truant from school was known as 'hopping the wag'. I have never come across anyone else who is familiar with this.

Absent

'Wagging it' and 'on the wag'. 'Bunking off'.

I have two sofas and two chairs in my lounge absent but none of them match thankfully!

The only person I knew who had a drawing room was my granny. Nobody ever 'withdrew' to that room. Maybe it was where she entertained the minister when he called, but it was definitely kept 'for best' and not for grandchildren! We sat, talked and played games in the parlour, a much more informal space where granny took her after lunch nap and which had a door to the lovely big garden.