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Dialect Differences with PMP

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What regional name do you use for these four items?

Being that we are a Postcode Lottery, we love hearing the differences between the dialects of our members. Comment below what you call these things, and if there are any other things you know of having different regional names in the UK.
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We’re looking forward to hearing your regional names for all of these things!

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  • Remote control

    Dressing gown

    Bacon roll

    Glass of coke

    Hampshire now Londoner by birth and for 30 years

  • Remote control ( for the Tely )

    Dressing gown

    Bacon barm ( as in barm cake )

    Glass a coke

    Liverpool

  • A. remote

    B. dressing gown

    C. bacon cob

    D. coke

    Nottingham

  • A remote

    B dressing gown

    C: Bacon bap

    D:Cola

    Yorkshire

  • a: remote

    b: dressing gown

    c: bacon batch

    d: coke (fizzy drink)

    From Coventry originally

  • a. Remote. B Bath Robe. c. Bacon Roll. d. Coke.Born x raised in South London.

  • a, remote b.bath robe c.bacon roll d. coke. born x bred in South London.

  • Remote

    Bath Robe

    Bacon Butty

    Cola

  • A. Doofer

    B. Gaff jaiket

    C. Roll n bacon

    D. Ginger

    Glaswegian living in East Scotland

  • A. Didjer

    B. Dressing gown

    C. Bacon buttie

    D. Coke

    Originally a south Londoner and now Sussex!

  • Remote

    Dressing gown

    Bacon bap (because it's in a roll but sandwich when in bread)

    Coke if it's a cola product but if you just mean fizzy drinks in general then I'd say pop as a kid but it sounds too cringe now so I call them fizzy drinks or just by brand names.

  • Remote control

    Dressing gown

    Bacon roll

    Coke

  • Remote, bath robe, bacon buttie, fizzy pop

  • Zapper

    Dressing gown

    Bacon buttie

    Fizzy drink

    Born a Londoner, but spent some time in Manchester before returning south.

  • I grew up on Tyneside - with a Devonian mother, and have bounced around England for 50 years so perhaps my terminology may be a little mongrelised - and to me they are:

    (A) Remote (although I left Tyneside before they were in existence so goodness knows what 'pure' Geordies call them); (B) Dressing gown; (C) Bacon sandwich or Bacon bap as it's a bread bun; (D) Pop.

  • A, Splodger . B, Robe . C, Bacon Roll. D, Fizz

    • Never heard it called a splodger 😂

  • Remote, dressing gown, bacon bap, pop.

  • Remote, dressing gown, bacon bap/roll, Coke

  • A. Remote, B. Bathrobe, C. Roll n Bacon, D. Bottle o Gingur.

  • Remote, Dressing Gown, Bacon Roll, Coke

    • I live in Dunfermline Fife, but was born and brought up in Edinburgh.

      A. Remote control.

      B. Dressing gown.

      C. Bacon roll.

      D. Coke or fizzy juice.

    • Remote, Dressing gown, Bacon roll and ? could be beer or some kind of cola but I don't drink either.

      In order to find out the regional dialect differences shouldn't we be adding our location? I'll start; I live in the north east but was born in the north west and have spent most of my adult life living in various parts of the UK.

    • Remote, Housecoat,Bacon Roll and juice.

      Born and bred in Edinburgh.