Hewitt's History Files

IF someone told you they'd just seen a 'crummy curious culver being chased by a cutty', would you have the vaguest idea what they were on about?

All are words culled from just one page of a 19th- century dictionary of Sussex dialect. Not that it makes particular sense, but they would have just told you that they'd seen a wren purusing a fat drunk dove.

But the point is that these are words that few Sussex people would recognise today '“ words seemingly once common in the county.