The Norfolk Dialect

Mr. Dickens' attempt to give interest to his new novel by introducing this dialect would have been even more successful had he been more familiar with the curious peculiarities of that east-coast language. Many of the words are, I believe, quite peculiar to Norfolk and Suffolk, such as, for instance, the following: *Mawther*, a girl, a wench. *Gotsch*, a stone jug. *Holl*, a dry ditch. *Anan? An?* an interrogation used when the speaker does not understand a question put to him. *To be muddled*, to be distressed in mind. *Together*, an expletive used thus: where are you going *together?* (meani…