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Thread #141122   Message #3246041
Posted By: John MacKenzie
28-Oct-11 - 07:55 AM
Thread Name: Music hall singers funny accent
Subject: RE: Music hall singers funny accent
It seems to have been fairly common parlance in them days, whether it was cod cocknbey, or whether it was like the Catalan lisp, I don't know.
It occurs in Villikins and His Dinah, and The Ratcatchers Daughter too.