"Mitch Off School"

Do you say it? Have you ever heard it?
If so whereabout in the country are you/ where did you hear it?

I'm looking at this BBC voices thing and I just wondered how widespread this expression was because it had no other showings on the langauge map..!

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Reply 1

Sync

Nope (just outside London)

Reply 2

need_money

Does it mean skipping school? If it does then never heard of it. We say "dogging it".

Reply 3

blissy

need_money

Does it mean skipping school? If it does then never heard of it. We say "dogging it".

It does indeed.

Reply 4

Fleffzilla

"Skive" is used around here the most, I think... Never heard yours before...

nope...

i think someone's pullin your leg, Blissy. :wink:

Reply 7

AT82

Nope and I am from Manchester, 33 miles east of Liverpool, 160 miles North West of London 88.4 miles North Westish from Birmingham. About 300 miles from Devon. I am also 364 miles away from Paris :biggrin:

Reply 8

OppressedMass

From Devon and, yep, that was the common word for .... mitching.

"Dogging it"? Are you serious? Well if someone in a school Devon asked you where you were on monday and you said you were "dogging" Im sure you'd get a funny look.

Reply 9

blissy

Herleif Arkadios

i think someone's pullin your leg, Blissy. :wink:

Er... well I used to say it all the time when I was at school.
I wonder if it's a Devon thing

Reply 10

bikerx23

i have, and i, sadly, am from south wales :frown:

maybe its more the further west you go...

Reply 11

blissy

AT82

About 300 miles from Devon. I am also 364 miles away from Paris :biggrin:

Woooooah

No wonder it takes me so long to get up country!!

Reply 12

AT82

We have minging in Manchester which means ugly.

Reply 13

need_money

pig

Sounds like some school.

Its not my school specifically its more like pretty much all of scotland that says it. :rolleyes:

Reply 14

Flukey

from Hertfordshire, and i dont have the foggiest to what it means or heard it as a matter of fact. :smile:

Reply 15

AT82

blissy

Woooooah

No wonder it takes me so long to get up country!!

Yeah the South West makes London seem up north :biggrin:

Well thats slightly cheating becuase thats Devon by rail and Paris if it was both by air the Paris is 350 and Devon would be about 260. This is according to Google earth.