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On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:48:12 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Ian White
saying something like:

In the West Riding, "cod" was simply a dialect variation of "kid" as in
"kidding", eg "It's a cod".


That's common in Ireland.


Ahh, but the Irish have some delightfully quaint turns of phrase, so that's
not altogether a reliable yardstick.

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All wighy, rho sriyched yhe ket pads on my ketboawd?