I'd like the next thing I write to have the word 'dint' in it. It's a word that isn't used often enough.
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It's how we say "didn't" in Doncaster.
ReplyDelete"No I dint!"
"Yeah ya did!"
"NO I DINT"
etc.
I dint realise that 'dint' has a couple of meanings, aside from the colloquial...
ReplyDeleteI too like the word 'dint'.
ReplyDeleteThe tin cup was empty. They were miles from the oasis. It had a dint in it where she bashed it against a rock in an agony of frustrated thirst.
Dint and dent are the same apparently...I just looked it up (on an internet dictionary so that must be right). I think we should have more stories that feature galoshes
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