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Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England

Note 213 — Songs. (continued 2)

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Famished. The line in which this word occurs exhibits one of the most striking peculiarities of the Lancashire dialect, which is, that in words ending in ing, the termination is changed into ink. Ex. gr., for starving, starvink, farthing, fardink.

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