Friday, 17 February 2012

Professor Yaffle

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Just a little something for those who remember Bagpuss: a yaffle is, or was, a Kentish dialect term for the Green Woodpecker.

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4 comments:

  1. Yaffle and the mice frightened the pee out of me as a child. When I was a child, that is.

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  2. Quote: "...yaffle is, or was, a Kentish dialect term for the Green Woodpecker. "

    And not only in Kent; Yaffle is what we call him in Sussex.

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  3. Yaffler is what Green Woodies are called in most English counties 'yaffle' is what they do....

    Laurie -

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  4. Ah yes - I know this from reading Barbara Willard's wonderful Mantlemass series - historical fiction for children, beautifully written. I think it's first mentioned in 'The Lark and the Laurel'.

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