On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, mUs1Ka wrote:
> "Matthew Huntbach" <mmh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> The "alley" question was the only one I couldn't find my preferred
answer
>> listed - the classic Sus*** dialect word for this, "twitten", was not
>> given.
> You need to look more carefully; it is there.
No, "twitchell" is there, "twitten" is not. I know both, since my father
came from the twitchell-speaking part of England. I think it was a source
of some amusement between my father and mother than they both had dialect
words for the thing, which were similar but different. Plus we were
brought
up in a house which had a twitten/twitchell close by, so it was a term in
common use.
Matthew Huntbach
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