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Page 161
... means out of tune with this is gramma - zow , also from Modbury , and matched by a couple of similar occurrences in the Tavistock area ( Moore , 1965 , 117 ) as well as several in Cornwall , while north Dorset gives us the variant ...
... means out of tune with this is gramma - zow , also from Modbury , and matched by a couple of similar occurrences in the Tavistock area ( Moore , 1965 , 117 ) as well as several in Cornwall , while north Dorset gives us the variant ...
Page 172
... means ' lapwing , plover ' ( Laver , 1989 , 31 ) . There is , incidentally , nothing particularly new about the confusion , since in nineteenth - century Cornwall the word hornywink was allegedly already being used of a slug and even ...
... means ' lapwing , plover ' ( Laver , 1989 , 31 ) . There is , incidentally , nothing particularly new about the confusion , since in nineteenth - century Cornwall the word hornywink was allegedly already being used of a slug and even ...
Page 177
... means ' short and stiff ' or ' short and stout ' , and will refer to the bird's small size and / or its cocked - up tail . Possibly the most interesting of Dr Laver's four main appellations for the wren is tiddly tope . While tiddly ...
... means ' short and stiff ' or ' short and stout ' , and will refer to the bird's small size and / or its cocked - up tail . Possibly the most interesting of Dr Laver's four main appellations for the wren is tiddly tope . While tiddly ...
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