Blackbourne U3A Quiz?

[capricorn62]

Suffolk dialect questions are very hard.
1 What are Frapes & this has nothing to do with Facebook.
2 What does Tharra go nimble mean?

3 What is the Suffolk word for the following?
A Scarlet Pimpernel (flower)?
A wood pigeon?
The Alphabet?
A wagon?

[scorpiojo]

1?
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=c2kTAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=tharra+go+nimble&source=bl&ots=J9_nDtwAqg&sig=wIK_SaiLZbkSVebMX3VHqkXJZBM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=t9lwVK78IYKNaJzZgJAJ&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=tharra%20go%20nimble&f=false

[scorpiojo]

Wood pigeon - Dow?
Page 265:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PDka-Hfp8PwC&pg=PA266&lpg=PA266&dq=collared+dow+wood+pigeon&source=bl&ots=iP6JNa0BEH&sig=yIqRLOuspNrulQO9AcYW0np4YeI&hl=en&;sa=X&ei=qdxwVOSPCIzoaKPXgpgP&ved=0CC4Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=collared%20dow%20wood%20pigeon&f=false

[slaney]

Wagon -wain
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/suffolk_the_curious_county_that_inspires_tourists_1_1929612

[slaney]

Scarlet pimpernel -puddin-poke

http://dawnpiper.wordpress.com/land-words/

[slaney]

Scrub that - Scarlet pimpernel - Shepherd's sundial
(Under Anagallis arvensis)
http://michel-desfayes.org/plantnames.html

[capricorn62]

slaney, thnk I will go with shepherds sundial.
Still searching The Alphabet & Tharra go nimble????

[scorpiojo]

On my link above, tharra is defined as thorough ^

http://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/Thorough-Go-Nimble

[dannyk13]

Wood pigeon - Dow

[scorpiojo]

Scroll Danny ;o)