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Stoke-on-Trent Potters, Clay Heads, Stokies, Jug Heads, Pot Heads, Monkey-Dusters (pejorative) Stowmarket Stowmartians Stranraer Cleyholers Stratford-upon-Avon Fads (acronym, "Fat American Dodgers"; the town is over-touristed) Strood Long Tails, Stroodles Stroud Stroudies Sunderland
Stoke-on-Trent "The Five Towns" or "The Six Towns" – in the novels of Arnold Bennett the area that was to become the city is referred to as "the Five Towns"; Bennett felt that the name was more euphonious than "the Six Towns" so Fenton was left out. [175] "The Potteries" – after the city's former main industry. [176] Swansea
As with most local dialects in English, Potteries dialect derives originally from Anglo Saxon Old English.The 14th-century Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which appears in the Cotton Nero A.x manuscript uses dialect words native to the Potteries, leading some scholars to believe that it was written by a monk from Dieulacres Abbey. [1]
East Midlands English is a dialect, including local and social variations spoken in most parts of East Midlands England. It generally includes areas east of Watling Street [n 1] (which separates it from West Midlands English), north of an isogloss separating it from variants of Southern English (e.g. Oxfordshire) and East Anglian English (e.g. Cambridgeshire), and south of another separating ...
Stoke-on-Trent was a world centre for fine ceramics—a skilled design trade has existed in the area since at least the 12th century. In the late 1980s and 1990s Stoke-on-Trent was hit hard by the general decline in the British manufacturing sector.
Maskot/Getty Images. 6. Delulu. Short for ‘delusional,’ this word is all about living in a world of pure imagination (and only slightly detached from reality).
Stoke-on-Trent is a city in Staffordshire, England. Stoke-on-Trent may also refer to: Stoke-upon-Trent, a constituent town of the city of Stoke-on-Trent;
Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words ... An Ethnography of Identity and Gay Black Men," wherein one of the subjects used the word "tea" to mean "gossip." The term is often used with the ...