Unadopted Alleyways

YoungBlueEyes

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

p00hsticks

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

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

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

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

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

Snickelway.... how very inclusive

moneyistooshorttomention

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

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

LandyAndy wrote: »

Ginnel is what we call it in Somerset.

Not everywhere in Somerset!



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