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[AVV IT]

Please partake in this important socio-geographical experiment (OK it's actually to settle a debate in the pub)

The childhood practice of giving another child a lift on the back of your bicycle, is commonly known as giving them a .... what??

... Please respond stating the phrase you would use and where you grew up, (as this appears to be making a difference.)


Ta!!

Edited by AVV IT, 12 July 2012 - 07:15 PM.

[R.S.P]

Croggy or tanny from Teesside

[Joseph-C]

Backie - Birmingham

Genius

[Artful Dodger]

backie - essex, cambridgeshire

[ukcooper]

Backie - Stoke on trent

[AVV IT]

backie - essex, cambridgeshire

Hmmmm interesting..... what part of Cambridgeshire did you live in, as the locals round here seem to call it a coggy/croggy!!

Edited by AVV IT, 12 July 2012 - 07:36 PM.

[iwatkins]

Backie, Lake District.

[Shifty]

Backie, Shropshire

[BobJob]

Backie, Hertfordshire

[Mabird]

Backie - Blackburn Lancashire

[Alex_B]

A luggy from down saaaf

[twink]

Backy - devon

[Alex_B]

clearly Eastbourne are the odd ones out!

[twink]

Croggy or tanny from Teesside

I read that as coggy or tranny

[AVV IT]

clearly Eastbourne are the odd ones out!

Well having now discussed this topic in various places including here, facebook and the pub, "backie" certainly seems to be the most universally used term and it's use stretches from as far south as Devon, right the way up to the Scottish borders. However there also seems to be odd pockets around country where the terms cog/coggy/crog/croggy are used instead, most noteably parts of East Anglia and the North East.

.....There also seems to be a few other random terms used elsewhere too..... where people are clearly just "making it up"!!

Edited by AVV IT, 12 July 2012 - 09:35 PM.