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Established 2003. Now incorporating The Sudbury Hill Harrow and Wherever End Times
Monday, July 30, 2007
North-eastern miners' dialect
Pitmatic gets its lexicon
"Term after term is related to mining practices, such as stappil, a shaft with steps beside the coal seam, or corf-batters, boys who scraped out filthy baskets used for hauling coal to the pithead."
Ossian
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