_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?_ (meaning several persons)--what
are you doing _together?_
Perhaps some reader can explain the origin of these words.
Icenus.
_Sir John Perrot._--Sir John Perrot, governor of Ireland in the reign of
Henry VIII., was one of the few rulers over that most unfortunate
country who have ruled it wisely. I believe that he was beheaded in the
reign of Elizabeth. Will any of your readers kindly inform me whether
his life has {218} ever been published, or where I can meet with the
best account of him?