UK/US different terminology

This allegedly caused accidents at train crossings in parts of Yorkshire, when signs said "Do not cross while lights are flashing."

That's terrible!  LOL!

Midlands MIL was a great one for "me duck" but in Yorkshire heard a lot more of "me luv" or just "luv". Amused me when the bus conductors (back when they existed) would call another bloke "luv" 

I love when my MIL calls me "flower".   

I love when my MIL calls me "flower".   

Yeah, or "petal" (but not "pet"!!)

Hubby has called me pet, petal, and flower.  They are all nice. 

In Yorkshire I often hear "us" (pronounced "uzz") used in place of our.  Example: "We weren't sure yet what we were going to have for us tea".

I sometimes hear "love" here, but I mostly hear "hen", which I love!

I love when my MIL calls me "flower".   

One of my midwives used to call me flower.  I don't think it gets said much here so maybe she's from somewhere else.  My grandfather-in-law uses duck a lot...but he's the only one around here that I know who says that (he's from Sheffield).  MIL and DH use '*bleep*' all the time and it's sooooo hard not to snicker.  I don't know if I'll ever get used to it.  I also find it strange that they use the term for both genders.  I'd think it would be more male oriented but apparently not.

Midwives and nurses are especially good with those endearments. Urgings of "good lass!" at just the right time.

ETA: Then there's "chook" which seems to be a variation of chick (?)

ETA: Then there's "chook" which seems to be a variation of chick (?)

I think it's 'Chuck' - used for both guys & gals?  As in...

"Hey Chuck!"

"Ey up (or Ayup) Chuck!"

(a general greeting)

I just Googled "chook" (which is how I remember it pronounced) and found it on World Wide Words website www.worldwidewords.org:

"Back in the sixteenth century chuck was a familiar endearment. Shakespeare is first recorded as using it, appropriately enough in Love’s Labour’s Lost. It survives as an endearment in some parts of Britain today, such as Yorkshire and Liverpool, the latter having the vowel pronounced to my ear part-way towards chook (and I’m told that chook is known from various dialects)."

He also says it means chicken in Australia or New Zealand (which is probably where I got "chick" from)

One of my midwives used to call me flower.  I don't think it gets said much here so maybe she's from somewhere else.  My grandfather-in-law uses duck a lot...but he's the only one around here that I know who says that (he's from Sheffield).  MIL and DH use '*bleep*' all the time and it's sooooo hard not to snicker.  I don't know if I'll ever get used to it.  I also find it strange that they use the term for both genders.  I'd think it would be more male oriented but apparently not.

My in-laws are Sheffield born and bred.  I never get tired of hearing them talk.   

As for "chook", I thought saying "oo" instead of "uh" was a Yorkshire trait.  DH says "Soonderland" and "loovely" and "choof me".  Another Sheffield friend once asked me if I knew the song "Looky".  I thought and thought and couldn't remember a song by that name.  Eventually we figured out he was saying "Lucky" and I was hearing it wrong.    

I think it's 'Chuck' - used for both guys & gals?  As in...

In all the parts of the country I've been to, it's chook, as in chicken.

In Stoke it is definitely Chuck

You say Chook, I say Chuck - let's call the whole thing off! 

Hubby's from Leeds and he calls me "Chuckie-Egg" or "Chuck" as a term of endearment. ("Chuck" gets a lot of weird stares whenever we're in the grocery store, etc. over here) 

He moved down south years ago so his accent is a bit watered down, but I love listening to his parents - nothing watered down about their Yorkshireness!   

One of my favourites is when they talk about a member of the family and refer to them as "Our", as in "Our Daniel", or "Our Martin"