Is it just around here?

[Workingman]

I was in the supermarket queue and noticed that when people had paid and got their receipt the said "Cheers" and then "Thank you". This is how it has been all my like and it got me wondering.....

Do other places have strange uses of English?

I do not mean dialect phrases, but standard English used in odd ways.

Another thing in Leeds is "Love". Everyone calls everyone else "Love"... even men to men. "Where are you going, love?" "I see it's raining, love" "When is the bus due, love?". Friendly, but very strange.

[saundra]

Iv lived in so many places
I say love mostly
In Cardiff it's my lovely and Lincolnshire my duck

[JoM]

Stoke say duck too.
Around here you can be mate, bab, chick or cock/cocker (don't say a word, Frank!!)

[JanB]

We knew a bloke, years ago, who always called us, Grumpy and me, duck

Here, it's querida, which is dear, darling, love, all in one

[Workingman]

Aye, Jan.

From my time in Germany I remember schatz or schatze.... so it looks like all nations do it.

[TheOstrich]

Mrs O, to her bemusement, has been addressed as both "sweetheart" and "hen" down here ….

[Workingman]

Ossie, don't egg the locals on, Hils could get a bit broody.

[Kaz]

People here say "Thanks, Drive" rather than driver, when they get off the bus.

[JanB]

And in Wiltshire Kaz, we both did it

[AliasAggers]

I think a lot of it comes from what you heard your parents and others say when you were a child,
and such phrases become instilled in you as a normal part of conversation.

A few years ago I gave up driving a car, and consequently began using the bus, something I hadn't done for years.. What surprised me was
that practically every passenger said "Thank You" to the driver when they got off. I used a bus many times in my youth, but never before
heard passengers do that, allthough my wife says they have always done so in the Birmingham area. Is this normal practice elsewhere?