AniiL 17. 1852.] 



IsOTES AND QUEEIES. 



375 



I bes: to contribute the inclosed, wbicli I have 

 hoard from a former incumbent of the parish of 

 Sutton Long in Somersetshire. 



*' Sutton Long, Sutton Long, at every door a tump of 

 dung. 

 Some two; some three; it 's the dirtiest place that 

 ever you see." 



It was an ancient sayin;^ in the parish,* and I be- 

 lieve tlie word tump is Somersetshire for heap. 



A village in Essex, called Ugley, possesses the 

 unfortunate saying : 



" Ugly church, ugly steeple ; 

 Ugly parson, ugly people." 



The firet line is literally true ; to give an opinion 

 on the second would descend too much into per- 

 sonalities, Metaouo. 



A particularly appropriate rhyme is that of 



" Stow on the Wold (Would?) 



Where the wind blows cold." 



S. L. P. 



Oxford and Cambridge Club. 



ARCHAIC AND PROVINCIAIi -WORDS. 



(Vol. v., pp.173. 196.250.) 

 Provincial Words. — Though the Kev. Wm. 

 Barnes has almost perfectionated the catalogue 

 of Dorset provinciali.sms in the Glossary to his 

 beautiful poems in the Dorset dialect, I still some- 

 times meet with a stray omission, viz.: 



Blasty. To feed a fire with the dust of furze, &c. 

 Clean-sheaf. Altogether, e. 5'. " I've clean-sheaf var- 

 -•crot." 



To crow, as a baby does,' 

 Blotchy. 

 The smaller pieces of a shirt. 

 To baiter. 



Eager ; ready to snap at. 

 Squeupily. To squeak, as an ungreased wheel. 

 Stump. Disturbance. 

 Treaden. The sole of the foot. 



C. W. B. 



In addition to the names already given, the fol- 

 lowing occur to my mind : — 



Spelling. Pronunciation. 



f Allerton 

 Hunts - 



Crudelee. 



Eickered. 



Giblets. 



Scousse. 



Snyche 



Alwalton "j 

 Caldicott I 

 Overtoil J 



- < Cawcott 

 |_ Orton 

 ]5rewood, Staffordshire - Brood 



Chaddesley, Worcestershire - Chaggeley. 

 In connexion with this inquiry, would it not be 

 interesting to make out a list of proper names of 

 indivitlual.^, the pronunciation of which is different 

 from the spellinsr ; and, if possible, to trace (for 

 example) how Trevelyan and St. John became 

 Tretethlan and Sivjin, and the high-sounding 

 Cholmoiideley sank, in the bathos of pronunciation, 

 to plain Chumley? Cuthbert Bede, B,A. 



The Word '■'■Pick." — Presuming that the proposal 

 at Vol. v., p. 173., involves the discussion and illus- 

 tration of the words inserted, allow me, as a Lan- 

 cashire man, to express my belief that the word 

 pick has invariably the sense of " to throw," and 

 not " to push." It is in fact another form of the 

 verb "to pitch ;" the two terminations being almost 

 convertible, especially in words formed from the 

 Saxon, as "fetch" from "feccean," "stitch" from 

 " stician," "thatch" from "theccan," the earlier 

 form of the latter word being retained in the well- 

 known lines of "Bessy Bell and Mary Gray." 

 Pick^ in the sense of " throw," will be found ia 

 Shakspeare's Henry VIII., Act V. Sc. 3. : 



" I'll pick you o'er the pales." 

 And in Coriolanus, Act I. Sc. 1. : 



" As high as I could pick my lance." 



And see the notes of the various commentators on 

 these passages. If the subject be worth further 

 illustration, I may mention that in the district of 

 the cotton manufacture, the instrument by which 

 the shuttle is thrown across the loom is called a 

 picker ; and each thread of the woven fabric, being 

 the result of one throw of the shuttle, is, by usin^ 

 the word in a secondary sense, called a pich. I 

 have heard a story of a worthy patron of the Arts, 

 more noted for his wealth than his taste, who, 

 attributing a certain freedom of touch in a pic- 

 ture, for which he had given a commission, to a 

 want of due pains in elaboration, expressed his 

 dissatisfaction by saying, " there were not the 

 right number of picks to the inch;" the threads of 

 calico, when received from the weaver, being 

 usually counted under the microscope as a test of 

 the goodness of the work. J. F. M. 



North Lincolnshire Provincialisms (Vol. v., 

 pp. 173. 250.). — I have noted the following North 

 Lincolnshire provincialisms since the appearance 

 of Mr. Rawlinson's suggestion: — 



Beat. A bundle of flax. 



Blower. A winnowing machine. 



Bumble. A rush used to make the seats of chairs. 



Bu7i. The stalk of hemp. 



Casson. Cow-dung. 



Charking. The wall lining a well. 



rj. -'i \ Words used in driving pigs. 



Connifolde. To cheat ; to deceive. 



Coul Rake. An instrument used to scrape mud from 

 roads. 



Dozel. A toppen ; a ball placed on the highest 

 point of a corn-rick. 



Feat. Clever. 



Fingers-and-toes. Turnips are said to go to fingers 

 and toes when instead of forming bulbs they branch 

 off into small knotty substances. 



Gizen. To stare vacantly. 



Grave. To dig turf. 



Gyme. A breach in a bank. 



