I think reading that would irritate me quite a bit, as a numbeer of those expressins are new to me, just outside South London. It reminds me of reading Stephen Donaldson, who had a number of unusual words, always used in the same context, so there was no way of deducing the meaning fram varying uses. This being before search engines, I made a list and hied me down to the local library reference section. Most of the list was not in the 20 volume Oxford dictionary. They were in Webster, often marked archaic. I was pleased to find a 2 volume Webster in a second hand shop, though haven't needed it since. I don't like books that hold me up by imposing unusual language on me.

Penny