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Help with parsing the following would be appreciated, thank you.
Must travel in the country for cheap cloth (5)
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.As a boy in my native Lancashire I heard old folk using "mun", usually mun for "must" ie, I mun do something.
A memory from school days is that mungoes and shoddies were cheap cloths made from recycled cloth ie, the old cloth was shedded and then re-spun and rewoven into mungoes and shoddies. I vaguely remember that one was basically woollen and the other basically cotton - no man-made fibres in those days..