Thursday, June 02, 2022

 

Think Locally

Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887-1956), The Challenge to Sirius (1917; rpt. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1924), p. 167:
"Manchester! Wot's Manchester! I live in the Isle of Oxney. I döan't care wot happens in Manchester and such-like furrin parts. Be hemmed to all furriners, I say."
A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect (Kent Archaeological Society, 2008) has no entry for hemmed, but cf. the following, quoted s.v. blether (p. 11):
And hemmed (damned) hard work from 4 o'clock in the marnin' till 8 o'clock at noight, yayer (year) in, yayer out.
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