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Old 22-08-2011, 01:19   #176
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Re: Old local expressions

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Originally Posted by garinda View Post
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.'
remember the older folks being asked if they had their Portmanteau packed in the days before wakes weeks started .... travel was usually by a Charabanc ....... seems the older generation had a better/wider vocabularies than present day , can be sure the Mutha 'f ' word wasn't part of everyday conversation
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