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Chris Blount
Feb 1, 07 - 2:55 PM |
Dialect Word?
When I was giving a talk in Truro yesterday, a lady said she was puzzled by the word SKRIDDICK. It's a new one to me - does anyone knaw its meaning? |
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admin.
Feb 1st, 2007 - 4:31 PM |
Re: Dialect Word?
Hi Chris, This is not a word Sandra or I have come across. Is it used on one of your tapes. If so I would be happy to put a segment on the web site so that we could hear it in context. Regards GeorgeP Administrator 
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Chris Blount
Feb 2nd, 2007 - 1:45 AM |
Re: Dialect Word?
Apparently Trevor Beer used it in his Western Morning News column, without explaining it! No, it's not on one of my tapes, but I'd be happy to give you other snippets from my many Ken Phillipps'(or other) recordings. |
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admin.
Feb 2nd, 2007 - 3:46 AM |
Re: Dialect Word?
Hopefully someone may know the answer to Chris's query. In the meantime if you would like to hear some Cornish dialect you can visit Chris's web site at this URL: http://www.choughdigital.co.uk/about_us.html GeorgeP Admin. |
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Chris Blount
Feb 6th, 2007 - 12:53 PM |
Re: Dialect Word?
Thanks to Simon Parker at the Western Morning News, I think we have the answer - mind, tiz Debon dialect so no wonder us didn't knaw...... If my father didn't pull his weight around the house my mother would suggest she was just a "tacky lacky", a sort of slave, and if there was plenty of potato to spare at meal times, "do you want a skriddick or a wallage?" she would ask. "Wallage" is a large amount, a "skriddick" just a bit. |
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