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Dr Fulminare's Quizze of Forgotten Folk Names of British Birds
Quiz introduction
Did you know that swifts were once called 'jack-squealers' in Upton-on-Severn? Or that the quail was colloquially known as a 'wet-my-lip' in Norfolk? See if you can guess which birds the following nic
knames have applied to at one time or another.
The source for this quiz is 'A dictionary of English and folk-names of British birds; with their history, meaning, and first usage, and the folk-lore, weather-lore, legends, etc., relating to the more familiar species (1913)', available through openlibrary.org.
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