What's in a name?

Here's an interesting set of diagrams. They show how different parts of the UK have different ways of saying and pronouncing certain things and how those differences correlate highly to geography and therefore language evolution.

Having lived in many parts of the UK over the years both as a child at school and also as an adult these differences do seem to resonate. Above we have the classic Tea/Dinner/Supper distinction, instinctively if someone was coming round our house for "Tea" we'd be thinking about Earl-Grey and Victoria-sponge, maybe some hot-cross buns if you're lucky, however, when I used to live in Manchester it would mean beans on toast or perhaps pie and chips!

Then we have the age old sc-on or sc-own. In our family we've always asserted that "scone" rhymes with "gone", although bizarrely my kids seem to like toying with the other way, I guess that reflects teenage contrarianism rather than anything else.

Less controversial but still quite confusing for the uninitiated we have the bread-roll dilemma, is it a roll and bun or a bap? In honesty my family wouldn't entirely conform to convention on this, we would say bun for burgers but roll for the bread you have with a meal. I think of all the variants this one might be the most diverse, especially since most people in the South-East that shop in places like Waitrose seem to buy French bread these days (what the hell would they call that in Stoke?)

Definitely "Tag", "Tiggy" sounds a bit kinky to my "South-Eastern" ears...