SHA Small Heath Alliance

This feels quite ironic.

Sheev Palpatine

Nause is definitely West Midlands.

Also I’ve found the Guardian article you nicked and tried to pass off as your own: [www.theguardian.com]

Piccadilly Radio in Manchester had a Nause of the Week slot. Why would you think a common root word like that would be restricted to Birmingham?

I’m not disputing it’s usage elsewhere

Sheev Palpatine

I’m not disputing it’s usage elsewhere

Then it's just a word. Like any word.

newblue

Yes - I agreed with you

Apologies, Newbs. It’s quite a rare thing, so I didn’t notice 😉

Sheev Palpatine

When my dad told me about playing on the bomb peck when he was young I genuinely thought that they were playing around unexploded ordnance leftover from the war and were just extremely casual about it

Well that would have been a proper 60s/70s childhood 😉

The only dangers were bricks and rubble, bomb craters and broken glass. Nothing a plaster and a spot of TCP or Savlon couldn’t sort out.

A wonderful saying of Dads when you were on a visit would be get yourself a perch (get yourself a chair)

Many old terraced houses used to have a covered walk way between the houses with bedrooms above which gave access to all the rear gardens. My grand parents and parents always used to call them “the gully”. I’ve not heard this in years and certainly not heard it outside Birmingham but I could be wrong.

In the Black Country gulley is used for any walkway between houses or streets.
Gulley is also used instead of alley I suppose.
Entry is another word used for a gap between houses that leads to a garden gate each side. Put the recycling bin up the entry

Rab C Nesbitt

In the Black Country gulley is used for any walkway between houses or streets.
Gulley is also used instead of alley I suppose.
Entry is another word used for a gap between houses that leads to a garden gate each side. Put the recycling bin up the entry

In the Lancashire of my wife, it's a ginnel.

Yorkshire origin

Rab C Nesbitt

In the Black Country gulley is used for any walkway between houses or streets.
Gulley is also used instead of alley I suppose.
Entry is another word used for a gap between houses that leads to a garden gate each side. Put the recycling bin up the entry

I agree with all of this and think it's the same across brum

There’s a huge crossover from Brum to the BC and vice versa. People moving over borders, working together etc

Sheev Palpatine

Yorkshire origin

Earliest recorded use. Not necessarily origin. Common old English and Norse word.

Then it's just a word. Like any word