Dear Sar
That were very nice to read whot you said in the NPN about us whot speak proper Norfolk. there arnt s’ meny on us about now for several reasons. When I went to school in the 1950s there wer a lot on us whot spoke Norfolk cos our fathers warked on the land. Now acors the farms are bigger with huge fields & they dont want s’meny men to drive them gret old tractors. A lot of folks have moved into the county from away & hent been here long enough to lean Norfolk. Our children go away to finish their education, one o’our boys he went to Hull University for 3 years & when he drawed back hom he was a usin sum Yorkshire wuds, he ha hed them knocked out of him now cos he werk in a big office up the city.
My Missus is a Norridge mawther & she talk different, althouth we hev a been ploughin the same furrow for the last 40 odd years she still say things to me I dont understand, although I dosnt tell her.
If you & your missus ar a hevin trouble with some of our wuds I reckon there are still one or two on us in the village who could help you out.
I must close now cos as the weather is fair I want to tricolate my old shud up afor winter set in.
Fare ye well t’gether & do you keep a troshin,
The Boy Tom
(A Carbrooke resident)
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