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Old 22-08-2011, 01:10   #175
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Re: Old local expressions

Not confined to this area, but often heard locally.

Pandæmonium - A noisey place/wild uproar.

Odd really, such a literary word, capital of Hell in Milton's Paradise Lost, was widely used.

'There were a reet din in there, it were Pandæmonium.'
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