Paris Review on Wiltshire Words

The Paris Review’s blog On Language has a post about a glossary of ‘folk-speech’ from Wiltshire from the 1890s – I’m not sure how many of these are still part of everyday usage around these parts (mind you, Swindon is only in Wiltshire, not of it).

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