Re: CHAT: IDLE CHAT: foreigners from the shires: (was: Words)

At 1:12 am +0000 9/9/00, Rik Roots wrote:
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>On the Romney Marshes, we also used the word "grockle" for tourists
>and daytrippers.
'Grockle' seems to be used for day-trippers all along the south coast, at
least as far as Devon in the west.

I'm told that in Cornwall they call them 'emmets' which, of course, was
commonly used in dialect to mean 'ants'.  My grandmother, who was born,
bred & lived all her life in Sussex, always called the little critters
"emmets" - I never once heard her use the standard English word.

Ray.

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