What is Yew Boy?
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Typical greeting, used by most Cornish people when they bump into someone they know quite well, but not well enough to stay with each other and have an actual normal conversation. Can be shouted from distances up to about 1/4 of a mile.
Someone walking down the street sees someone that looks familiar: "Yew Boy! Wasson me cocker?!"
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There are several variations to this dirty little limerick. I recited a slightly different version when I was a child in the 1970s:
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the transition from self-sufficient homes to big business and capitalism
Industrialization marked the beginning of less self-sufficienc..
