The List of Things You Don't Have to Worry About Grows As the Years Go By

Western Mail › October 02, 2009

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I ENJOYED the Western Mail report about words that have gone out of use in South Wales. I remember hearing "gambo" for some sort of cart. I remember when picking blackberries or whinberries, children would chant "Barcwtch!

Barcwtch! Can't come to my cwtch!" It was like prospectors staking out a claim in the gold rush.

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The List of Things You Don't Have to Worry About Grows As the Years Go By

I'm not so sure about the paragraph on "yorks" - the strings that colliers tied around their trousers just below the k...

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