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Thread #173794   Message #4215138
Posted By: FreddyHeadey
11-Jan-25 - 10:06 AM
Thread Name: London Catters
Subject: RE: Title & Singer of 1950s Song
^^^^^ crill

Jennifer Reid, 21st century singer & researcher of Lancashire dialect work songs and Victorian broadside ballads, has it in a talk she gave[2024?] referring to Henry Cunliffe's 1886 'A Glossary of Rochdale-with-Rossendale' :

Crill is C, so that's a creeping chill

https://www.theportico.org.uk/jennifer-reid-transcript