Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
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Don't tempt me - he left a letter in my box for the farmhouse
at
the far end of the loke yesterday.

Loke?

Wynd.

Oh! Lane Penny has dropped. Where I come from they are called
lonnings.

Ah. Lonnings, loanings, lanes - all from the Old English 'lane or
lone'.

I really can't stand much more of this. I'm a poor dam ' honest
colonial Australian, rattling my shackles, and I thought I had you
poor oppressed cringing Pommie rickets-infested peasants on the run;
but now you suddenly get all unintelligible on me! You *******s pull
another stunt like that, and we'll go republican.

Down under, we rule the OED with big-time scholarship: you Eschary
types better explain yourselves in short order,or flimin' else..

--
Mike.