Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Dawley dialect: a postscript


If a man wanted to tell his girlfriend/wife/fiancee how much she meant to him, he would say to her: I wudna swop thee for a big black pig!
It seems a long way from "I love you", but the sentiment is genuine. In those days a man who owned a big black pig was a rich man in the community

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