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Re: lost dialect
Slopstone, yes! What about being hungry, or in dialect 'clemmed'. One watered the household plants with a 'degging can' to 'slather' the plants 'wi' watter'. My great-aunt always used to say that she 'were fain to see me'. My dad had an expression (possibly from Chorley where he was born) which referred to anyone doing something totally aimless as being 'up and down like cheese at fourpence'. There must be others which will come to mind, but I shall need to trawl through my memory for those!
Pashley
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