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Each month ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD, former researcher from ‘QI’ and author of The Meaning of Tingo, poses a vocabulary quiz from our local Wiltshire dialect.

CAN YOU GUESS THE CORRECT DEFINITION? 1. BUNT

a) to push with its head as a calf does its dam’s udder b) a large playing marble c) the youngest of a litter of pigs 2. TRENCHERMAN

a) one who feeds others well b) one who haunts good tables, a greedy sponger c) a scarecrow made of old garments 3. MOP

a) a depression of spirits b) wool taken from a dead sheep c) a fair for hiring servants

4. ATTERCOP

a) a brief respite in the weather b) a spider c) the second swarm of bees in the same season

LOVE LETTER ACRONYMS

In the old days there was a plethora of rather charming though rakish acronyms used in the process of writing love letters. We all know about SWALK for Sealed With A Loving Kiss but what about the following? ADIDAS - All Day I Dream About Sex

BOLTOP - Better On Lips Than On Paper MALAYA - My Ardent Lips Await Your Arrival NORWICH - ‘Nickers Off Ready When I Come Home BURMA - Be Undressed Ready My Angel MEXICO CITY - May Every Kiss I Can Offer Carry Itself To You HOLLAND - Hope Our Love Lasts And Never Dies CHIP - Come Home I’m Pregnant EGYPT - ‘E Got You Pregnant Then SWIMBO - She Who Must Be Obeyed (one’s wife or girlfriend) FISH - Forget it, I’m Staying Here

ANSWERS 1A, 2A, 3C, 4B

Peter Wilkinson M.Inst.Ch.P

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