A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the Neighbourhood. With Examples of Their Colloquial Use, and Allusions to Local Customs and Trditions |
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Abbey Anglo-Saxon ANTIQUITIES bairn blash blow body bonny brave called cattle child Christmas church cloth cold collop CRUKE Customs District of Sheffield door dress England English engravings feast feet fellow fire Gang Glossary ground hand handsome head heard History horse illustrated J. O. Halliwell J. Y. Akerman JOHN RUSSELL SMITH John Yonge Akerman Joseph Hunter kind linen maks Mark Antony mickle milk moor MOORN neighbourhood Northamptonshire nought nowther original price ower peas person piece plates PLODGE Post 8vo printed pron Provincial Dialects putten rain road RUSSELL SMITH scold SCRAT sense sewed Shakespeare soft SOHO SQUARE sorely sort spot stick stone STOOR Stots Streonshalh Sussex talk thee thick tion town volume walk weather term weel WHANG Whitby Whitby Abbey Whitby Strand Wiltshire wind wood woodcuts wooden Yorkshire young
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