From chippy sauces to how you pronounce the word 'bath', people across the UK love to debate the 'correct' way of doing things - and it all gets pretty tribal depending where you are.
Owing to cultural differences, age-old traditions and local quirks, there are often various different names for the same thing.
Recently, a debate has been sparked about what you call the end piece of a loaf. And now people are discussing what you call a small passageway, typically found between houses or buildings.
Immediately, a word will have sprung to your mind - snicket, ginnel, tenfoot - because everyone has their own unique word for it, especially if you're from Yorkshire, or up north.
Ginnel, or gennel, is a word most commonly used in Yorkshire, and often across Manchester, but you may be wondering what are the origins of the unusual word.
YorkshireLive spoke to linguistic experts from the University of Sheffield to share how a ginnel may have got its name.
The word has existed for quite some time and has existed in dialect dictionaries from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Oxford Dictionary says that it has an 'uncertain historical background', but may well be a corruption of the French word 'chenelle', which is now our word for channel.
And people on Twitter can often be found passionately arguing the fact that it's called a ginnel.
"In Yorkshire it's called a ginnel", someone shared, whereas another laid out their parameters for referring to something as a ginnel, writing: "An alley if no ceiling. If between two houses with a ceiling (like a tunnel) it's called a ginnel."
"I'd call it an alley, or perhaps a ginnel", a Twitter user said. "It's not called a ginnel where I live I think I picked that up from my Scottish mother…or perhaps northern friends."
"I mean it's always been an alley where I'm from", someone said. "But ever since I learned that it's called a ginnel up north it's a f*****g ginnel."
Turns out that ginnels and bread aren't the only things that have got people talking either, as people have also been hotly debating what the correct name is for the children's game in which you knock on someone's front door and run away.
What do you call it? Let us know in the comments.
