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Unadopted Alleyways

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  • YoungBlueEyes
    YoungBlueEyes Posts: 4,158 Forumite
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    edited 26 June 2018 at 10:57PM
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    I've not heard 'snicket' for a while....

    Maybe this all needs it's own thread ha haa!

    Edit: I use snicket if it's a little cut-through type path i.e. I'll just snick through there so I'm not late.

    Snickets are thinner shorter ginnels, and are usually grassed. In my world :undecided
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  • p00hsticks
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    Definitely 'ginnel' in Yorkshire. he word is used in the 1953 episode of the children's educational TV series, "How We Used to Live," based in 'Bradley,' (Bradford.)
    marliepanda wrote: »
    I see your Yorkshire ginnel and raise you a snicket.

    Used fairly interchangeable round here in Norf Yorkshuh


    And in York itself they now tend to refer to 'snickelways' - a recent amalgam of snicket, ginnel and alleyway


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snickelways_of_York
  • quantumlobster
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    marliepanda wrote: »
    I see your Yorkshire ginnel and raise you a snicket.

    Used fairly interchangeable round here in Norf Yorkshuh
    Feh and nonsense!

    It's obviously a jitty.
  • moneyistooshorttomention
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    Are there some parts of the country that don't have a "local" name for them then?

    As I'm not aware of any for South West England - though that doesnt mean to say there aren't any (as I only know a couple of "local" phrases for anything....:rotfl:).
  • Davesnave
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    edited 27 June 2018 at 8:17AM
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    moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »
    Are there some parts of the country that don't have a "local" name for them then?

    As I'm not aware of any for South West England - though that doesnt mean to say there aren't any (as I only know a couple of "local" phrases for anything....:rotfl:).
    "Us be gwin down the drang, dreckly " would have been what local children might have said when I was a child in North Devon, meaning: "We're going down the back lane in a minute."

    ('Dreckly' is not really "directly," but stands for any future time, while 'backalong' refers to any period in the past.Time is rather non-specific here!)
  • LandyAndy
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    YoungBlueEyes wrote: »
    Noo I'm not in Hull, I'm about half an hour away in a little market town :)

    I thought 10-foot was a Yorkshire thing... and I thought ginnel was an Irish thing (my mother always called it the ginnel - "Are ye fer putting that bin in the ginnel or do I have to do it meself?"

    Ginnel is what we call it in Somerset.
  • YoungBlueEyes
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    Snickelway.... how very inclusive :D
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  • moneyistooshorttomention
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    "Us be gwin down the drang, dreckly " would have been what local children might have said when I was a child in North Devon, meaning: "We're going down the back lane in a minute."

    ('Dreckly' is not really "directly," but stands for any future time, while 'backalong' refers to any period in the past.Time is rather non-specific here!)

    Ta.

    I know "us be gwin", "dreckly" and "back along".

    The "drang" is a new one on me.
  • martindow
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    Just found this discussion of regional names


    https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/10/02/regional-words-alleyway/


    Other local names include jitty, ennog, gully, chare and twitchel amongst others.
  • Davesnave
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    LandyAndy wrote: »
    Ginnel is what we call it in Somerset.
    Not everywhere in Somerset! :p



    https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Drang,+Wells+BA5+1QL/@51.1924062,-2.6786617,19z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x487218870a6bf8e3:0xdd41d610b59409e9!8m2!3d51.1922944!4d-2.6784149
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