Skeg is one I use to this day even though I haven't lived within 200 miles of Teesside for 20 years.
whereabouts? I was born in bradford ("bratf'd") but
raised dragged up in marske-by-the-sea, where (as a teenager) my careers advisor would point out of the window of the classroom at the not-very-distant ICI & british steel complexes up the road & say "or you could become a teacher".
exile, via liverpool, to london & points beyond, soon followed.
so did you give people croggies on your bike?
I work in broadcast engineering, & briefly ended up at chrysalis in camden, while Mtv were still clients there- I went with them when they moved over the road into the TVam building & stayed 17 years, travelling all over europe while the viacom empire grew. but at chrysalis, I ran into another engineer who had a smoggy accent.....
"are you from the north east?" I asked.
"teesside, aye."
"where in teesside?"
"little village called mask" [that being how we say it]
"where in mask?"
"the kirklands. why?"
"fuckin' 'ell! what number, like?"
"eleven. why?"
"I used to live at number eight!"
I mean, I wouldn't want to paint it, but...