Regional accents- the last straw.

[Serial_Apologist]

Regular greeting here apart from 'hello' is far more commonly 'how do?' or 'all reet?'

I would think Northumbrian/Cumbrian speech have a quite lot of features in common. What was striking when I was living in the West Country were the survivals from much earlier times - In Bristol, for instance, the use of "bist", as in "How bist?" for "How are you?", presumably a shortening of "How beest thou?" in turn possibly a derivation from the German "Du bist" = "You (singular) are". From reading up a little on this subject, there are a number of surviving terms to be found derived from ancient Norse, particularly down the eastern side of the country; also a lot of nouns and verbs associated with old trades and working implements are no longer in use and have dropped out of local vernaculars.

[kernelbogey]

All around the SW, I would think, with "My lovely?" or even "My lover?" often added at the end, in Bristol at any rate!

In Plymouth, My Bird [Burrrd}.