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From: "Robert DAVISON" <>
Subject: The Hamely Tongue
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 97 09:38:11 UT

That title is a book on the Ulster-Scots language by James Fenton, ISBN
1-900423-00-6 published by the Ulster-Scots Academic Press, Newtownards, Co.
Down. And I quote from it....

REDDIN-OOT a clearing out: REDD THE ROAD clear the way
REDD UP clear up, tidy up

This is still in daily use here.

Rob C Davison
General Secretary
North of Ireland Family History Society

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