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Re: Ginnels, and snickets
Posted: 5 Oct 2020, 10:31am
by Rmr25
TrevA wrote:sjs wrote:Rod Goodfellow wrote:In Sheffield in 1940s known as a jennel
East Midlands, or at least Derby/Nottingham area, they're gitties.
I beg to disagree, as a born and bred Nottingham lad, they were always known as twitchels.
I'm from Nottingham and it was a twitchell and also jitty and alley. Different districts had varying names.
Re: Ginnels, and snickets
Posted: 5 Oct 2020, 9:33pm
by TrevA
https://nottinghamcityofliterature.com/ ... -twitchellTwitchell is definitely a Nottingham word, though I agree that if you said Jitty, people would know what you meant.
I’m off to eat my Chip Cob now!
Re: Ginnels, and snickets
Posted: 6 Oct 2020, 2:59pm
by Slowroad
I've been doing some in-depth research on this (my Facebook friends...) and jitty, twitchel and ginnell are all claimed as the correct Nottingham/East Midlands word by someone! There's a pHD in the somewhere...
Re: Ginnels, and snickets
Posted: 6 Oct 2020, 3:29pm
by thirdcrank
Gracie Fields would have been lost without "alley."
Re: Ginnels, and snickets
Posted: 6 Oct 2020, 3:38pm
by Mick F
You make me tearful suggesting Gracie.
What a wonderful personality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A5f5xzQAYU
Re: Ginnels, and snickets
Posted: 7 Oct 2020, 12:20am
by AndyK
mumbojumbo wrote:In Hampshire called backwacks.(In Surrey "weironeputsbins"
I'm 'ampshire born and 'ampshire bred, and I have
never heard
anyone call it a backwack. [Citation needed], as they say on Wikipedia.
Re: Ginnels, and snickets
Posted: 7 Oct 2020, 11:47am
by SRV
Is it 'Lonnen' in Tyneside, or am I making that up (this could run and run)?
Re: Ginnels, and snickets
Posted: 7 Oct 2020, 11:56am
by thirdcrank
SRV wrote:Is it 'Lonnen' in Tyneside, or am I making that up (this could run and run)?
I believe you are right, but be careful of your pronunciation if you don't want to attract the the disapprobation of somebody who resents mention of the metropolis
Re: Ginnels, and snickets
Posted: 7 Oct 2020, 12:10pm
by SRV
I had a Geordie mate, now sadly gone, who used to say "gannin' doon the clarty lonnen wi' a gobful of claggen", but I'm both digressing and hijacking this post.
Re: Ginnels, and snickets
Posted: 7 Oct 2020, 12:43pm
by fausto copy
Coming from Runcorn, they were always known as "entries" to us.
When I worked in Liverpool they were called "jiggers".
And down here in Pembrokeshire, they're called a "drang".
Re: Ginnels, and snickets
Posted: 7 Oct 2020, 12:54pm
by Oldjohnw
SRV wrote:I had a Geordie mate, now sadly gone, who used to say "gannin' doon the clarty lonnen wi' a gobful of claggen", but I'm both digressing and hijacking this post.
Lonnen is indeed a Geordie word for lane. There are a number of Streets in Newcastle which include the word: Silver Lonnen, Two Ball Lonnen (this latter always amused us as children).
In Berwick there are a number of loanings: Bell Loaning, Cemetery Loaning etc.
Re: Ginnels, and snickets
Posted: 7 Oct 2020, 3:50pm
by SRV
Thanks John.
Fausto Copy (haha!) mentions Liverpudlian "jiggers". I'm sure I heard that word used in the NE as well.
Re: Ginnels, and snickets
Posted: 7 Oct 2020, 3:54pm
by SRV
Oh, and referrring to FC's post "drang" means "drive" in German, as in "Sturm und Drang". Ferry interesting, ja?
Re: Ginnels, and snickets
Posted: 7 Oct 2020, 4:03pm
by djnotts
Rmr25 wrote:TrevA wrote:sjs wrote:
East Midlands, or at least Derby/Nottingham area, they're gitties.
I beg to disagree, as a born and bred Nottingham lad, they were always known as twitchels.
I'm from Nottingham and it was a twitchell and also jitty and alley. Different districts had varying names.
The "10' barrow or footway" of which, according to the Title Deeds, I own an undefined part is a "twitchel" here in Nottingham.
Re: Ginnels, and snickets
Posted: 7 Oct 2020, 4:23pm
by djnotts
Oldjohnw wrote:SRV wrote:I had a Geordie mate, now sadly gone, who used to say "gannin' doon the clarty lonnen wi' a gobful of claggen", but I'm both digressing and hijacking this post.
Lonnen is indeed a Geordie word for lane. There are a number of Streets in Newcastle which include the word: Silver Lonnen, Two Ball Lonnen (this latter always amused us as children).
In Berwick there are a number of loanings: Bell Loaning, Cemetery Loaning etc.
My grandparents lived in one of the first post-1945 OAPs' council house estates in S Shields, the road being called The Lonnen. It was a cul-de-sac leading to a footpath into a park. It probably still is.