Hi, again, Listers: Within half an hour of my sending thanks re 'hind", I chanced upon this site. http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/durhamdialect/hetton1896.htm It is "/_A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham_ (English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896)." /It gives "Hind (the 'i' long). A farm-labourer. (The only term in use.)" I was surprised to find a number of terms that I hadn't thought of as dialect at all, which is a 'problem' common to first-generation kids who learn partly from old-country parents and partly at school. My wife sometimes looks puzzled, and I realize that I've used some expression remembered from Sunderland parents. This seems to be more frequent with increasing antiquity. Cheers Bruce Dodd, Ottawa