The Old Cotswold DialectLulu.com, 01.11.2008 - 68 Seiten Charles Gardiner wrote a series of funny, articulate and charming articles on 'The Old Cotswold Dialect for the Evesham Journal in 1959 and 1960. This book collects these articles together, rounds them off with a glossary of odd words and phrases, and illustrates them with some delightful pictures of some of the hidden corner in the Vale and the Cotswold Edge. |
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