IN THE light of current events I thought that Echo readers might be interested in information supplied in William Barnes’s Glossary of the Dorset Dialect (1886).
He defines ‘Boris-Noris’ as ‘Going on blindly, without any thought of risk or decency’.
DR ALAN CHEDZOY
Spa Road, Weymouth
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