Mud, glorious mud

When out walking in the countryside after heavy rain, an overwhelming 80% of you told us that your shoes are most likely to get covered in mud. However, you may still get covered in clarts when walking in Northumberland, County Durham, and Cumbria, and plother may give you bother in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Venture slightly further south into Lincolnshire and it’s blather you’ll be cleaning off your boots, while in the area stretching from Merseyside through Manchester, up into Lancashire and eastwards towards the Peak District, it’s likely to be slutch.

While the term slutch shows some stability, the term clarts seems to be falling out of use and is not reported by the under 11s. The same is true of words like clods and blather, which indicates a potential move away from these regional terms.