Hong Kong’s old neighborhoods—even now, with its hyper-modern investment in arts and technology — you may feel like you’ve entered a time machine: vendors still fix shoes on the streets, and tables are spread along the cobbled roads with trinkets, jade baubles, old Szechuan Province coins from a century ago, Bruce Lee posters and Mao bags.
Source: A time-machine walk through old Hong Kong • l!fe • The Philippine Star
slare
To saunter, to be slovenly (The Dialect of Cumberland – Robert Ferguson, 1873). Rarely used in Cumbria now but has a meaning of to walk slowly, to amble, to walk with no particular purpose. Used for example in the ballad Billy Watson’s Lonnin written by Alexander Craig Gibson of Harrington, Cumbria in 1872 “Yan likes to trail ow’r t’ Sealand-fields an’ watch for t’ commin’ tide, Or slare whoar t’Green hes t’ Ropery an’ t’ Shore of ayder side “(Translation: One likes to trail over to Sealand Fields and watch for the coming tide, Or slare over to where the Green has the ropery and the Shore on the other side) Billy Watson’s Lonning (lonning – dialect for lane) still exists and can be found at Harrington, Cumbria.
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