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The
Merry Mawkin, newsletter of the Friends of Norfolk Dialect
(FOND), is always full of interesting features, pictures and
letters – helping preserve our vernacular for future
generations.
This issue, winter No. 43, is another 28-page issue!
The
Merry Mawkin, an A5, glossy newsletter is published four
times a year and mailed free to members of FOND, although
non-members may purchase copies if required (please see
below for details).
Ashley
Gray, the editor, welcomes anything on a Norfolk theme:
stories and poetry in dialect, photographs of bygone days,
as well as letters or emails, describing what living in Norfolk
means to you.
THE
MERRY MAWKIN, WINTER EDITION, NO. 43
“Well,
hare we are agin, moi ol’ bewties, wi’ another Mawkin
– an’ winter draws on, dun’t it?
“That
wuz hoolly cold the other mornin’ an’ we din’t
half hev a frorst we did! I hatta screarpe the ice orfer my
caar’s winderscreen afore I set orf, I did.
“Then
along cum this hare mawther an’ har boy frum down the
rud. I say t’har howya gorn on, moi bewty? – ’corse
I allust loikes to paass the toime a day wi’ me nearbuhs
– she seem orlroight thow.
“I
happen t’remaark t’har ‘thass hoolly fresh
terday ent ut?’
“She
reckun thass on accounter that bein’ winter. I seh that
wun’t yit, but sune will be – thass the winter solstuss
on Decemba twettysecund this yare, but not allotter people
know that, they dun’t.”
“Ennyhows,
I’d betta let yew git on readin’ orl about our winter
Merry Mawkin, yew’ll foind out orl about
ut if yew click
here yew will, moind yew, if yew’re a member yew’re
hed yars orlreddy I reckun; and if yew ent – wuh! thass
about toime yew joined
us ent it?
“Fare
y’well tergether!”
Front
cover: Greetings from East Runton, a snowy scene (mearke
ya feel hoolly frooze, dun’t ut?).
Page
2: A mardle with the editor – Our editor has
been chatting up the mawthers again.
Page
3: Our chairman reports – Norman Hart
tells us of his travels to foreign parts and joining
other FOND committee members in Louth, Lincolnshire, to participate
in the National Dialect Day organised by Far Welter’d.
Page
4: Is our dialect really doomed? – asks
Ralph Nickerson, and goes on to suggest FOND should adopt
a Patron Saint!
Page
5: Linguistic equality – Our president, Peter
Trudgill, says that some people in Norfolk reckon our dialect
is more expressive than others. But that int! Thass jist that
we’re fond onnit. But that int the same thing!
Page
6/7: A FOND ole dew at
Fincham
– Robin Limmer gives
a report of the recent dew ‘far out west’ in the
Memorial Hall, Fincham, near King’s Lynn.
Page
8: A paintun for a pound!– Jean
Eaglen once painted a picture, gave it away, then bought it
back in a charity shop, prompting Tina Chamberlain to write
a ‘pome’ about it!
Page
9: Hev yew aver bin a troshin? – Canon Peter
Nicholson had and he tells us all about it.
Page
10: Wordsearch, Acle –
Another teaser from Brenda Bizzell.
Page
11: FOND AGM 2011 –
A report on the AGM by Rosemary Cooper, held in Lincoln
Hall, Hingham, on Sunday 27 November 2011.
Page
12:
Reckun Oi must be a’slowin on down –
say The Boy Colin, as he reflects over the past forty-two
pieces of squit he’s written for the Mawkin!
Page
13: A common bond –
Robin
Limmer writes about how our Norfolk language bonds us together.
Page
14: Our own tongue –
Another account of life with Graffar and Granner from
Ida Fenn.
Page
15: Boy Colin’s Norfolk quiz –
To test your knowledge of all things local..
Page
16: How the walnut got its wrinkles
– Just what you wanted to find out – and
Sid Kipper reveals all...!
Alss
page 16: Norfolk: a poetic county
– Some more poetry from Lil Landimore.
Page
17: Come yew on tergether!
– A ‘rich crop of dialect writing, harvested
by Keith Skipper’.
Page
18: Them ole narsery roimes
– As recalled by Canon Peter Nicholson.
Page
19: The Chrissmuss paarty
– Albie frum Windum hearkens back to the good
old days of spam sandwidges and pustman’s knock!
Page
20: Bobby, the heavy hoss – Tina
Chamberlain tells us how she overcame her fear of hosses!
Page
21: At the present time...
– Sharon Ingle thinks about them there presents
pilin’ up under the tree. But hope and expectation doorn’t
allus match realitty...
Page
22: www.norfolkdialect.com –
A report by the webmaster on the FOND website’s popularity,
plus a selection of messages left in the guestbook.
Page
24: Let’s be hearing from you! –
Letters and emails to the editor.
Page
27: A bitta squit frum Darsnum –
A couple of anecdotes, but Willy Ever finish?
Also
on Page 27: Wordsearch solution
and Boy Colin’s Norfolk quiz answers.
Page
28: FOND officers and
Friends of Norfolk Dialect membership application form.
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