From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an ceathrú lá is fiche de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh Ross Clark:   
      
    > English dialectologist, Professor at University of Leeds.   
    > Remembered for the Survey of English Dialects (1950-61), "an effort to   
    > capture as many regional words as possible before they died out."   
    >   
    > Co-author of _Linguistic Atlas of England_ (1978).   
    >   
    > What do you call these? (pointing to the handles of a scythe):   
    >   
    > doles, grips, handles, hand-pins, hand-tings, straight-handles, nibs,   
    > nippets, noggets, nogs, snogs, tholes, toggers, tugs   
      
   Not directly relevant, but “to thole” is Ulster-Scots (and presumably   
   Scotland-Scots, but I have no exposure to this) for ‘to tolerate, to put up   
   with, to stand.’   
      
    > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Orton   
    > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_of_English_Dialects   
      
   Is anyone in the group in rural England much these days? Is there much of this   
   dialectal variation left?   
      
   --   
   ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /   
   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)