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Thread #79198 Message #1432971
Posted By: Mr Red
12-Mar-05 - 08:29 AM
Thread Name: UK dialect 'gem-down' - origins?
Subject: UK dialect 'gem-down' - origins?
Joy used the phrase today
gem-down in connection with a list of salient events, a chronological synopsis, a simple what's-on.
Not a phrase I have ever encountered. She, of course, felt everyone used the phrase. I thought it might be a Gloucestershire colloquialism but she pointed to her Yorkshire (cusp Lancashire) ancestry. Pennine/Huddersfield canal tunnel area.