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Re: Regional Dialect Dictionaries for MS Word

by Molly Mockford <nospamnobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jan 16, 2008 at 05:35 PM

At 13:42:46 on Wed, 16 Jan 2008, sprocket <bucket@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in 
<fml226$ukt$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:

>Well I don't speak West Country, but I recognise some. The vocabulary 
>seems to be a mix of traditional local and modern national terms.

And I can make a guess at a few more:

chiggy-pig, chuggy pig:  I bet that's a hedgehog
flittermouse: a bat (the winged mammal type; cf Das Fledermaus)
whortleberry: blaeberry, bilberry, whinberry and probably another 
hundred names in different regions!
-- 
Molly Mockford
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Regional Dialect Dictionaries for MS Word
"Ildhund" <j  2008-01-15 09:14:37 
Re: Regional Dialect Dictionaries for MS Word
sprocket <bucket@[EMAI  2008-01-15 09:26:38 
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Peter Duncanson <mail@  2008-01-15 16:41:24 
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"Ildhund" <j  2008-01-16 13:10:48 
Re: Regional Dialect Dictionaries for MS Word
sprocket <bucket@[EMAI  2008-01-16 13:42:46 
Re: Regional Dialect Dictionaries for MS Word
Howie <to.reply.pls.se  2008-01-17 08:19:07 
Re: Regional Dialect Dictionaries for MS Word
Peter Duncanson <mail@  2008-01-16 20:29:54 
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Peter Duncanson <mail@  2008-01-16 20:31:16 
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Peter Duncanson <mail@  2008-01-16 20:45:59 
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Molly Mockford <nospam  2008-01-16 17:35:23 
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John Hall <nospam_nov0  2008-01-16 18:19:04 
Re: Regional Dialect Dictionaries for MS Word
Mike Barnes <mikebarne  2008-01-16 22:54:26 
Re: Regional Dialect Dictionaries for MS Word
Peter Duncanson <mail@  2008-01-18 03:21:35 
Re: Regional Dialect Dictionaries for MS Word
Paul <paulmathewmac@[E  2008-02-01 08:03:14 
Re: Regional Dialect Dictionaries for MS Word
Paul <paulmathewmac@[E  2008-02-01 08:08:42 
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sprocket <bucket@[EMAI  2008-02-04 13:07:39 
Re: Regional Dialect Dictionaries for MS Word
Paul <paulmathewmac@[E  2008-02-05 06:56:20 

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