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Eyup agin Benje
Both wed n'wats more - tiv each uther! Dunt git maudlin ower it an dunt try blamin that there spell checker - appen itint allus at fault if tha were t'be perfectly oppen' n above booard
According ter't local hysterical s'ciety. point is tha mayn't be ivver thatsofar off wi Tongue Norton, appen nutsofar offen as Lord Stokes woodavus bileeve!
Just abaht time Adam wer a lad, yon King Vertigern, having conned them Pendragons inter goin back ter Cornwall, set Hengist ( a mea'n who i' ther reet mind u'd' call a yungun Hengist) on ter sort yon Picts an Scots out. Now im bein yon o'them Saxons want' satisfied wi his reward an demanded mooer. Vertigern, im nut beeint' straightest o' new kids ont' block ses tivim - tha's a pagan thee n' it mightent go dahn owerwell wit' rest ont' nobility - but seeinas ow tha's gi'en abuv n' beyond't call'o duty - tha kin av a bit mooer!
Nathen - eeres weere it gits complicatid- Hengist - knowing yon Vertigerns eeys wer a bit close tergither, had mooer oil in is lamp n' what yon Vertigern reckoned!
Im being Saxon, ad bin rount' block a time or two. When yon Vertigern offerd I'm more - ee offered I'm 'as much ground as't skin ofen en ox'ed covver'
"Av I eeared thee reet" e ses shekkin is ead "as much as't skin offen'n ox'ed cover?" "By eck thas tight" but im being Saxon ad summat up is sleeve . W'it sharpest knife i't drawer it wernt long afoor e ad t'ox skin cut inter thongs as thin as yer like n' tied em all tergither. Vertigern wer fair capped w'it ingenuity on it all n' gied I'm all o'wat e cud surround wi it all tied tergither!
So tha sees - eers weere t'name Tong started n'all cos them Saxons were too lazy ter talk proper n' pronounce 't silent aitch. Shoulda known t'ony place that's allowed is ere in Gods County
Nathen - gerrin back ter't point on all this' - owert yers Tong as bin called Tonge, Twange, Thange, Toang, Tunge n' Thang so tha sees Benje - mebbee tha want so'far off after all.
(Extracted with Viking Veracity and artistic licence from archive.org "A history of Tong, Shropshire, its Church, manor, parish & college)
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