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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Still whanging? Dialect hunt aims to update prized English language archive

Hungry people
Do these people look clammish, clemmed, leary or clempt? Photograph: Fabio Camandona/Alamy

Was you or were you having your tea, dinner or supper last night? Before it, were you feeling clammish, clemmed, starving, hungry, leary or just plain clempt?

Are you still whanging in Yorkshire? Haining in Somerset? Hocksing in Cambridgeshire? Hoying in Durham? Pegging in Cheshire? Pelting in Northamptonshire? Yarking in Leicestershire? Or do you throw now?

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