Word: wessel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article quotes at length from diaries and letters written by Lords and Ladies of various periods. One letter begins dearest creature", another describes the "Horried torter" of a lady's dying lap-dog. Sam Weller's "wessel of wrath" finds 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...