Re: Probability of Article Replacement?

Joe wrote:
> He's right there.  I got confused by my(Yorkshire) grandfather saying
> [In?l&v], 'in the lav' or 'in the toilet.  Which, in the UK, means 'in the
> bathroom',
Is this possibly a reduced form of "int"? (perhaps for earlier [Int@]?)
which I seem to recall seeing in novels etc. that tried to depict
non-standard UK dialects (I'm thinking principally of Stella Gibbons' "Cold
Comfort Farm"-- it may be a send-up of a mish-mash of dialects.  These stick
in my mind:
 nowt for nothing (naught)
 summat for something, and the wonderful
 leetle brush for clettering the dishes

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