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).
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).