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miscellanea
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dialect and oikolect
from Birmingham, the Black Country, and a few generations back on one side, Lancashire. Also
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- things which aren't localised, but relatively infrequent in...scraige, lummock, round the wrekin, mithering, daft ha'p'orth, caggy-handed, fizzog, mardy, kaylied, hotch up, cadge, yampy and 33 more...
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sarra And ton magasin est ouvert for the same, Asa, I was told years ago. I have a feeling this one mightn't be very reliable. Nov 2, 2008
asativum Sounds like a more subtle version of like "your barn door's open" in the U.S. Midwest, said to a fellow with his fly open. Oct 26, 2008
vanishedone BBC: 'When I was at school, the whispered warning Charlie's dead alerted a girl to the fact that her petticoat was showing under her lovat-green school skirt. Horror of horrors!
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'There are various theories as to where that curious phrase came from. It seems to date from World War II, and my own favourite explanation is that in the 1940s, the window-blinds were lowered whenever there was a death in the house.
'The dipping half-slip was like a lowered window-shade. More fanciful versions involving Bonny Prince Charlie or Charles II, are, I am afraid, historically implausible, though no doubt a number of listeners will write or e-mail me to say that they prefer them.' Oct 26, 2008