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From an alley to an entry, Britain has plenty of different words for the same thing. Hear what people in Liverpool call these narrow passageways and see how local language compares.

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00:00An entry. There was lots of them years ago, wasn't there? Entries, alleys, entries.
00:06Oh, yesteryear when I was a boy, it was a jigger, it was an alleyway, it was the
00:11enno, and the back entrance, or the back enno, any little word like that. Now they're
00:16all boarded off fences and so on, so you can't get in anymore. So our nostalgia is now outside
00:23instead of inside.
00:24Up the jigger, yeah. Go up the jigger.
00:28Well, you entered into a house at the back, as is in the front, but the back one was
00:33always for the lads who were empty out bins. Now it's in the front parlour, now it's in the
00:39front garden, because they're locking the back up.
00:42Entry's another one, yeah, because we had an entry at the back of our house, so I would
00:45have said, I'm going, I'm only in the entry, you know, to my mum and dad, but if you would,
00:52with your friends, you'd go, I'm just going up the jigger. It's so, it just depends on
00:57where you're using the word, isn't it, you know. Tell me if you've heard of these. Snicket.
01:02Snicket. Isn't that a biscuit? No. Not heard of that. No. A ginnel. Heard of that? No.
01:12Oh, ginnel, is that Scottish? A jitty. They've made that up. A gully. A gully? That's on the roof, isn't
01:21it?
01:22Yeah. I've heard of gully as well. A gully. Yeah. So as you guys hear the words, sorry.
01:28Honey.
01:29hee.
01:29Yeah.
01:29Okay.

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