Did you know...

[Moreton]

...That the word Mardy a word we in Leicester use commonly is not known about anywhere else in the UK.

So if someone from say Liverpool heard you say "You mardy arse!" They wouldn't know what you meant by the word Mardy

Don't know if anyone else knew about this previously but i think it's quite good that us Leicestilians have a word that only we use

[Webbo]

...That the word Mardy a word we in Leicester use commonly is not known about anywhere else in the UK.

So if someone from say Liverpool heard you say "You mardy are!" They wouldn't know what you meant by the word Mardy

Don't know if anyone else knew about this previously but i think it's quite good that us Leicestilians have a word that only we use

I think it's used across the E.Mids and Yorkshire as well.

[Tilley]

...That the word Mardy a word we in Leicester use commonly is not known about anywhere else in the UK.

So if someone from say Liverpool heard you say "You mardy arse!" They wouldn't know what you meant by the word Mardy

Don't know if anyone else knew about this previously but i think it's quite good that us Leicestilians have a word that only we use

Not just Leicester, It's pretty midlands based word.

But I'd say it's more commonly used since the release of Arctic Monkeys song, Mardy Bum, which shows it is used in Yorkshire too.

[Durnerz]

I feel a sense of pride.

Maybe it'll get in the dictionary - not that people north of Leicester will ever get to know about it that way.

[Moreton]

I think it's used across the E.Mids and Yorkshire as well.

Oh rite. Well atleast we are included in that small group.

[Moreton]

I feel a sense of pride.

Maybe it'll get in the dictionary - not that people north of Leicester will ever get to know about it that way.

Same

[Webbo]

Oh rite. Well atleast we are included in that small group.

Yack-meaning to throw is a Leicester word though.

[Moreton]

Yack-meaning to throw is a Leicester word though.

Cool, didn't know about that one.

Anyone else know of any others?

[Asha]

We say cob, which is rare. Most people say sandwhich, sarny, roll or butty.

Not sure whether we're the only ones though.

[lavrentis]

We say cob, which is rare. Most people say sandwhich, sarny, roll or butty.

Not sure whether we're the only ones though.

I went down to London and asked for a ham cob and she looked at me weird. I didn't quite understand why?

[Asha]

I went down to London and asked for a ham cob and she looked at me weird. I didn't quite understand why?

Well because we've grown up calling it a cob, they've never called it that and probably never heard of the word.

[hairy]

Well because we've grown up calling it a cob, they've never called it that and probably never heard of the word.

You can also have 'a cob on' which is like having a strop.

Lairy is another word meaning mad, over the top.

Great words to use when with southerners.

[Flynny]

We say cob, which is rare. Most people say sandwhich, sarny, roll or butty.

Not sure whether we're the only ones though.

I say the lot except roll which is awful. Sarny's bread, cob's a crusty bread roll, bap's a soft one. Easy.

Mardy's more widespread than it gets credit for, as said Monkey's song proves.

[Bryn]

Mardy isn't unique to Leicestershire, it's a very common word.... Mardy Bum anyone? Also typical of Lancashire, all bits of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and loads of places in the Midlands.

I'm surprised people don't know what cob means elsewhere, but it's true that it's not that common outside of your fair city.

And yack?

[Stuliasz]

I say the lot except roll which is awful. Sarny's bread, cob's a crusty bread roll, bap's a soft one. Easy.

Mardy's more widespread than it gets credit for, as said Monkey's song proves.

It's called a breadcake in Sheffield

And no Sheffielders that I know have any idea what mardy means.

[Jack]

It's called a breadcake in Sheffield

And no Sheffielders that I know have any idea what mardy means.

Aren't the Monkeys from Sheffield though ?

[Stuliasz]

Aren't the Monkeys from Sheffield though ?

Yes but I don't personally know them...

[Jack]

Yes but I don't personally know them...

I know that but like seeing as they are from Sheffield and they named a song called mardy bum I just would of thought people in Sheffield would know what it means, that's all

[Ashley]

I knew it.

Also used in the Arctic Monkeys song.

[AoWW]

I've spent several years since leaving Leicester teaching 'mardy' to the whole of East Anglia. 'Having a cob on' too.

Sometime (probably about the time I was in Leicester) I picked up the expression 'wang', as in "Wang (throw) it over 'ere." I've received many a strange look for saying it - is it a Leicester-ism?

[Trav Le Bleu]

There isn't really a Leics accent or words as such, more of an East Midlands one, so that people from Notts and Derbys also use many of the words we use that others don't get.

I saw a book on it once and read part of it - can't remember what it was called though.

Tara m'duck!

(I believe however that "ta" is literally old Welsh for thanks - seem to remember that from somewhere - and I use it when I'm in Wales instead of Thanks or Cheers and it seems to get a good response... any light on that Finners?)

[Alexikokopops]

Oh rite. Well atleast we are included in that small group.

Yorkshire's the biggest county in teh country and Lincolnshire is the second biggest.

It's not exactly a small group!

I say the lot except roll which is awful. Sarny's bread, cob's a crusty bread roll, bap's a soft one. Easy.

Mardy's more widespread than it gets credit for, as said Monkey's song proves.

You are correct.

There isn't really a Leics accent or words as such, more of an East Midlands one, so that people from Notts and Derbys also use many of the words we use that others don't get.

I saw a book on it once and read part of it - can't remember what it was called though.

Tara m'duck!

(I believe however that "ta" is literally old Welsh for thanks - seem to remember that from somewhere - and I use it when I'm in Wales instead of Thanks or Cheers and it seems to get a good response... any light on that Finners?)

Lincolnshire's in the East Midlands too <_<

I use ta all the time instead thanks. It sits well with a good "ta duck"

[Number 6]

You pick up a few at uni. People don't understand the difference between a cob and a roll. And wtf is a breadcake?

[blue blood]

It's called a breadcake in Sheffield

And no Sheffielders that I know have any idea what mardy means.

i remember that from my uni days. in manchester they call them muffins.

[Ashley]

There isn't really a Leics accent or words as such, more of an East Midlands one, so that people from Notts and Derbys also use many of the words we use that others don't get.

I saw a book on it once and read part of it - can't remember what it was called though.

Tara m'duck!

(I believe however that "ta" is literally old Welsh for thanks - seem to remember that from somewhere - and I use it when I'm in Wales instead of Thanks or Cheers and it seems to get a good response... any light on that Finners?)

I think people from Leicester do have an accent, we tend to put h's on things. People from Skegness call people from Leicester "Chiz-it's" because when we see something we like we ask how much it is.