I would not try to suggest that there has been some confusion among contributors as far as dialect or language is concerned--but there seems at least to be a lack of realisation of the widespread use of many of the terms under discussion. I pass on a couple of quotes from the "Railwayman Poet", Alexander Anderson of Kirkconnel, Dumfrieshire, Scotland [Born 1845, died 1909]who wrote in a dialect which I can vouch is almost universally extant in South Ayrshire and northern Dumfrieshire to the present day. "Bairnies Cuddle Doon"---"The bairnies cuddle doon at nicht, wi' muckle faucht and din--o' try an' sleep ye waukrife rogues, yer faither's comin' in!" And from a sequel ""The Last to Cuddle Doon"----"An' John, that was my ain gudeman, He sleeps the mools amang-----" On his gravestone at the Kirkbrae in Kirkconnel can be read the inscription-"We have our day, we have our say, then quit the scene for ithers, And cuddle doon amang the mools, Where mankind a' are brithers,"