Word: kentish
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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...
...effort to be smart; that the "Three Moods of the Marsh" are vague and vapid. (Alliteration is always effective in muck-raking; the fitness of the words is less important). The critic may further observe that the verse is extremely conventional and not always grammatical; and that Kentish sailors must have queer occupations that lead them monthly to the Severn and the Trent. But the real opportunity for sensational exposure lies in the notices of plays at the Boston theatres: a feature that has clearly been instituted with a view to obtaining free tickets for the editors. Graft...