Is it a roll, bap, batch, cob or a barm?
Is it a 'roll', 'bap', 'batch', 'cob' or a 'barm'? Or do you eat 'dinner', 'tea' or 'supper' for your evening meal? These are just some of the questions being asked by students from the University of Manchester.
A survey of 1,400 English speakers by linguist Dr Laurel MacKenzie and her students at the university has revealed a north-south divide on how we describe everyday items such as bread, trousers,footwear and evening meals.
See what the following every-day items are called across the UK:
The study also looked at how the pronunciation of certain words differs from region to region.
For example, ‘one’ and ‘gone’ typically rhyme when spoken by northerners, but not southerners. In addition, ‘give it me’ is more acceptable in the North whereas they’re more likely to use ‘give it to me’ in the South.
Also according to the survey, Brummies can’t make up their mind if they’re northern or southern: like their northern neighbours, they rhyme ‘one’ and ‘gone’, but they mirror the south in calling the evening meal ‘dinner’ and fail to rhyme the words ‘foot’ and ‘strut’.