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Old 12-05-2010, 11:18   #98
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Re: Come again ? or what does that mean !

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Originally Posted by MargaretR View Post
Spelt 'agait'
..used by Emily Bronte
"Well, Mr Earnshaw", she cried, "I wonder what you'll have agait next?"

Surely that is an abridged against?

Locally 'a gate' means 'said'.

She was agate, blah, blah, blah.
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