Word: kentish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building in a Kentish village in England whose destruction is reported as imminent may in truth be about to disappear but the true village smithy still stands on Brattle Street in Cambridge, and no one is contemplating its demolition...
Here are all makings of a pretty scandal. In the unavoidable absence of Mr. Longfellow, no one can determine whether Mr. Dexter Pratt, who lived on Brattle Street, was he of the famous muscles, or whether the poet's hero spoke with a strong Kentish accent. The only possible solution is that Mr. Pratt was a man of means who kept two establishments. Or possibly the poet was inspired by the cumulative effect of two constant trees...
...full vindication in a diary of the sixteenth century which discusses "welwets, wacabonds and women" with no hesitation whatsoever. "Ojus", too, and "sparrowgrass" are not only in common use but are even preferred by the standard dictionary of 1790. "Cockney", continues the article, "that noble blend of East Mercian, Kentish, and East Anglican, which was written by Chaucer, printed by Caxton, spoken by Spencer and Milton, has, in a modified form and with an artificial pronunciation, given us the literary English of the present...