by the coast dew yew keep a throshin – means "carry on with the threshing" on its own in Norfolk but also means goodbye or "take care of yourself" dickey – donkey; however note that the word 'donkey' appears only to have been in use in English since the late 18th century. The Oxford English Dictionary quotes 'dicky' as one of the alternative slang terms for an ass.) directly – "as soon as" or "immediately"), as in "Directly they got their money on Friday nights, the women would get the suits out of the pawn shop" dodman – a term used to refer to a snail dow – a pigeon dwile – floorcloth dudder – shiver or tremble (not necessarily unique to Norfolk, it appears in the OED as dodder) finish, at the/in the – eventually, as in "he gave it to her at the finish"; or "You might as well have went in the beginning, 'cause you had to go in the finish".) get on to someone – to tell someone off, as in "They all went quiet, but they never got onto father no more") gays – the pictures printed on a book or a newspaper grup – refers to a small trench guzunder – chamber pot (derived from "goes-under") hutkin – used for a finger protecter mawkin – a scarecrow mawther – local word referring to a girl or young woman pit – a pond push – a boil or pimple quant – punt pole ranny – term meaning 'shrew' sowpig – a woodlouse staithe – an archaic term still used to reference any landing stage stroop – the throat Accent East Anglian English shows some of the general accent features of South East England, including non-rhoticity (in fact, one of the first English-speaking regions to lose rhoticity); g-dropping; the trap–bath split (though the quality of may be fronter than RP); the foot–strut split (though the quality of , , may be more back and close than that of RP); and widespread glottal reinforcement of stop consonants (so that are pronounced with the glottal closure slightly following the oral closure, so that 'upper' is pronounced as , 'better' as or now commonly , and 'thicker' as ). However, several features also differentiate East Anglian accents. Vowels Norfolk smoothing results in a pronunciation of two or three vowel syllables with a single long vowel; for example, 'player' is