From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   English novelist, biographer and short story writer (born 1810).   
   "...industrial surroundings, workers' poverty, and social conflict   
   provided the context for the social realism in her writing, and also for   
   her dialect realism, which makes her an essential figure in any account   
   of the language of nineteenth-century literature....she was scrupulous   
   in her quest for accuracy in representing Lancashire speech. She   
   complained to her publisher of errors in the first edition [of _Mary   
   Barton_, 1848], made corrections, and gave glosses to dialect words and   
   phrases, aided by her husband. The 5th edition (1854)added two lectures   
   on Lancashire dialect by William Gaskell, really detailed accounts of   
   its history and use, and full of literary precedents going back to   
   Anglo-Saxon times."   
   Lancashire words mentioned: farrantly (comely), frabbit (peeved), mither   
   (bother), adverbial "right" (right welcome). Singular nouns after   
   numerals (two year), "nor" instead of "than" in comparatives, and   
   non-standard morphology (agone, childer); she even uses "gotten"!   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gaskell   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)