Matthew Huntbach wrote:
> 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.
There is a famous booklet on the snickelways of York - snickelway being a
****tmanteau word for snicket, ginnel and alleyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snickelways_of_York
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John Briggs
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