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Re: "Simple"?? in Darwen? Turns out it says Sough
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 25 September 07 10:18 BST (UK) »
Interesting that 'sough' was a glassmaking term. A few weeks ago I was trying to avoid doing some real work (surely not, everyone cries  Wink), so I looked up the word 'kali', meaning to me, the stuff you got from the sweetshop that was like sherbet but a lot sharper taste. The dictionary said kali, another name for saltwort or glasswort, a spiky plant used in the glass making process.
So now I'm left wondering; how do you make both glass and a sweet from a spiky plant, is 'kali' a Northern word only, can you still get kali the sweet, and does it relate in any way to the modern expression 'I was absolutely kali-ed' . Apart from the dictionary definition, I have never seen this word written down.
There's a lot of scope for reviving the phrase 'gone down't suff' though. As in 'the council plans for a new city academy have gone completely down't suff' 
Smiley Barbara
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LANCS: Holt, Greenwood, Greenhalgh, Ballard, McGibbon,Threlfall,Fishwick, Berry
DERBYS: Goodwin, Grant
LANARK & regions: McGibbon, Bryson, Smith, Campbell
YORKS: Taylor, Stamford, Fishwick. Bartholomew

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