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Here's a URL to a well worth browsing list of dialect words. I was looking for "mumchance". The URL above covers only K through O, but try editing the "3" and that might take you to other parts of the alphabet. http://shadowgwen.freeyellow.com/definitions3.htmlI was able to get other parts of alphabet by changing the "3" in the URL to another number.
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Thanks Bill. Nice to see you on the Board again, too!
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Thank you, Dr. Bill, not only for the link but for the information. I have often found myself stuck on a particular site page, with no idea of how to move forward or back. It never would have occurred to me to change something in the address, but...it works! For your site, anyway.
And...just look at some of the amazing things it has:
KNOCKKNOBBLER Person who caught dogs I love that word!
KISSER Person who made cuishes/cuisses [plate armour which protected the thigh] and high armour
LAETARE 4th Sunday in Lent Is this Latin?
LANARY Wool store From...lanolin?
LEDERER Leathermaker I wonder if Richard knows?;-)
LONG SONG SELLER Person who sold popular songsheets on yard-long papers in the street
LOVE DAYS Days appointed in medieval times for the clergy to arbitrate and settle disputes, as they were supposedly `amicable' days
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In reply to:
LAETARE 4th Sunday in Lent Is this Latin?
LANARY Wool store From...lanolin?
Yep, laetare is Latin for Rejoice!. First word of a psalm or reading for that day perhaps?
Lanary and lanolin have a common etymon, Latin lana = wool
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Cool--thanks! 
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New (or long-forgotten) word for me, Bingley, thanks!
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etymontha's me een Jamaica, mon!
formerly known as etaoin...
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Ooh, ooh--does that mean we can call you Etty??
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Some more:
PAIL To beat, Midlands
PAINTER'S PARALYSIS Lead poisoning, also called drop wrist.
PEELER Policeman, from Sir Robert Peel, Police force founder
PESSONER Fishmonger From French, I'll bet.
PETTIFOGGER Low class lawyer Ah, yes, my old retainer: Larsen E. Pettifogger...
PIN Half a firkin Oh, well...of course.
PISTOR Baker This, I don't get at all.
RYAL Gold coin, Rose Noble I've heard of the Spanish réal, but not Rose Noble.
SCHRIMPSCHONGER Carver of bone, ivory or wood Now, this is close to scrimshaw, isn't it?
SLUBBER Operator of a machine which prepared cotton for spinning
SLUBBER DOFFER Person who removed bobbins from spindles in a mill
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call you Ettyif you really want to... 
formerly known as etaoin...
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