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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 14, 2020 18:07:12 GMT
Over to you TallPaul. You know you want it! |
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Post by The Matthew on Oct 14, 2020 18:44:09 GMT
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Post by Someone in a tree on Oct 14, 2020 21:25:56 GMT
Breadcakes
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 15, 2020 6:24:25 GMT
Exactly. It’s bread and it’s shaped like a cake. What else could it possibly be?
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 15, 2020 8:47:57 GMT
Excellent idea for a thread, BurlyBeaR. Wish I'd thought of it myself. 😉 My Barnsley colleague, from perhaps 10 miles away, calls a breadcake a teacake, and she calls a teacake a currant teacake, for which she quite rightly gets ridiculed. And my Rotherham colleagues, from just five miles away, call a gennel (with a soft g) a ginnel (with a hard g). |
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Post by mindy0monster on Oct 15, 2020 9:10:38 GMT
I don't have any strong feelings about breadcakes or otherwise.
Being from Lancashire a gennel is most definitely a ginnel (hard g). However, a friend from Leicestershire would refer to it as a 'jitty'.
Amazing, local dialects are fascinating.
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Post by theatreian on Oct 15, 2020 9:25:11 GMT
Never heard of a gennell. When I lived in Liverpool we had barmcakes. They had a light flour covering on them.
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Post by hulmeman on Oct 15, 2020 9:40:44 GMT
Never heard of a gennell. When I lived in Liverpool we had barmcakes. They had a light flour covering on them. Now Mr theatreian, I think you are getting all ends up here. A gennell (ginnell) is the rear access to a property, a barmcake is summat you put in your gob. Don't confuse the two. However, flour on a barm makes it a breakfast roll. But in north Wales, they were baps anyway. |
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Oct 15, 2020 10:49:07 GMT
A gennel is a ginnel (hard G). The phrase, ‘couldn’t stop a pig in a ginnel’, often used by my grandparents.
Breadcakes are teacakes, sometimes muffins or, occasionally, baps.
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Post by theatreian on Oct 15, 2020 13:14:15 GMT
Now Mr theatreian, I think you are getting all ends up here. A gennell (ginnell) is the rear access to a property, a barmcake is summat you put in your gob. Don't confuse the two. I must have been having a moment! Of course I have heard of a gennell. They are always down in it Coronation Street! For some reason I forgot! |
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Post by alece10 on Oct 15, 2020 16:40:03 GMT
I thought the one in corrie as a ginnel
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Post by theatreian on Oct 15, 2020 16:42:08 GMT
Well so did i actually. Can this be cleared up please ? When is a ginnel not a ginnel or a gennel?!!!
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Post by hulmeman on Oct 15, 2020 17:34:00 GMT
Ginnel - hard G
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Post by tysilio2 on Oct 15, 2020 18:26:05 GMT
Never heard of a gennell. When I lived in Liverpool we had barmcakes. They had a light flour covering on them. Now Mr theatreian, I think you are getting all ends up here. A gennell (ginnell) is the rear access to a property, a barmcake is summat you put in your gob. Don't confuse the two. However, flour on a barm makes it a breakfast roll. But in north Wales, they were baps anyway. Can confirm North Wales has baps! |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 15, 2020 19:07:25 GMT
Snicket!
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Post by TallPaul on Dec 24, 2021 12:23:19 GMT
Well that's BurlyBeaR's Christmas present taken care of. Just look at the bollards on May. What a stunner!  |
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