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If you were a Londoner visiting Cornwall would you know how to recognise a <b>grammersow</b>?<br> If you were from the West Country and took a trip up to Scotland, would you be bewildered if someone described you as <b>crabbit</b>?<br> And what if you left your native Belfast for Liverpool, would you understand if someone called you a <b>woollyback</b>?<br> <br> <i>How to Talk Like a Local</i> is an entertaining guide that gathers together and explains hundreds of words that you would never find in an ordinary dictionary. From <b>dardledumdue</b>, which means day-dreamer in East Anglia, through <b>forkin robbins</b>, the Yorkshire term for earwigs, to <b>clemt,</b> a Lancashire word that means hungry, it covers the enormously rich variety of regional words that pepper the English language. <br> <br> Not only does it pick out unique and unusal local words, it also draws together the dozens of terms from all over the country that mean the same thing, such as <b>knee-knabbed</b>, <b>crab-ankled</b> and <b>hurked-up</b> for knock-kneed, and <b>obzocky</b>, <b>butters</b> and <b>maftin</b> for ugly. In addition, it digs down to uncover the origins of these words, tracing their routes in

Author

Susie Dent

Publisher

Penguin Random House

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781409061946

Updated

2026-03-24