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But what, what do you remember playing when you were a kid - when you were a kid - hmm - uh, jump rope - oh yeah - uh, peevers.
Traditional children's games and songs are a rich source of lexical diversity, because the playground is full of young speakers who spend a lot of time together and therefore develop a common vocabulary. These groups often pass down names and phrases used in games for several generations. Even the simplest game of chase has a number of different names depending on where you are in the UK - dog, tig, tag or tiggy. "Terms of Armistice" - the practice of saying a word or phrase while crossing your fingers to indicate that you are withdrawing from the game for a short time - also has a number of regional alternatives, including barley, scrib, fainites, pax, skinchies, cross keys and dot. .
OED entry
peever: (Scotland) a stone, pottery, etc., used in the game of hopscotch; also a game of hopscotch (often with pl., sing. concord). The EDD cites usage throughout Scotland, and research by Peter and Iona Opie in the 1950s and 1960s found many regional names for hopscotch, including peevers, pallie, beddy, beddy, hoppy-beds, hecky, hitchy-bay, hitchy-andab to weave.
I remember my nain - when I was about four years old - she couldn't speak a word of English, it was always Welsh, Welsh, Welsh.
Terms of kinship and terms of endearment for family members still show considerable regional variation in the UK. The words we use to refer to our parents and grandparents vary regionally and socially, with mum in Wales and Northern England, mother in the Midlands and mummy in the South, often used by the upper class. middle classes everywhere. Interestingly, the word nanny is used by most of us to refer to a female grandparent, but among the middle class, the word can refer to a child care provider.
OED entry
nain: (Welsh English – north) grandmother. SED fieldwork in the 1950s noted variants including ganny, grammer, grammy, gran, grandma, grandmam, grandmayer, grandmom, grandmum, granny, nan, nana and nanny.
The BBC Voices survey of 2004/5 confirmed these and other established variants such as grandmamma and nannan and also elicited numerous more recently arrived forms, including amma, baba, bube, dadi, mamgu, nani and yaya.