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Obscure Roots of Regional Speech
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  • 1. Welsh word for a glacial valley, adopted into English geography
  • 2. Northern English dialect adjective meaning sickly or unpleasant
  • 3. Northern English and Scottish term for a small amount
  • 6. Originally a dialect word meaning a young woman or girl
  • 8. Nautical slang from dialect for watered-down rum
  • 11. Scots dialect past tense of 'eat', preserved in regional speech
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  • 4. Dialect form meaning a large number or quantity
  • 5. Old English dialect word meaning two or a pair
  • 7. Northern dialect word meaning a funeral feast
  • 9. Old English origin meaning land belonging to a parish church
  • 10. Obsolete dialect word for a boisterous girl or tomboy

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