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Old 04-10-2005, 21:21   #29
jamesicus
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Re: lost dialect

We used to call the Leeds & Liverpool canal the cut. Thus:

"Ast' bin swimmin int' cut?" (have you been swimming in the canal?).

BTW, we didn't buy any donkey stones at the shop that I can remember -- our Rag & Bone man used to give them out as payment for stuff given him.

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