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Word: cowhowel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questions, but the questions must be carefully worded. Should a researcher ask, "Where do you keep your cow?", the farmer might reply with the modern cowshed. But if he is asked, "What do you call the place where you keep Moo?" he might say byre (Northumberland), cowhowel or cowhoyle (Yorkshire'). shippom (Lancashire), mistal (west Yorkshire) or shobbin (Devon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Rose Is a Schoop | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

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