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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe">
</span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Etymology" 2008.12.15 (02) [E]</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">There is a
Twitten in Blaby in Leicestershire</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Paul<br>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>>
<br>
Subject: Etymology<br>
<br>
"Twitten" is listed in the English Wikipedia:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Twitten</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> is
an old <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect" title="Dialect">dialect</a>
word, used in both <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Sussex" title="East Sussex">East</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex">West Sussex</a>,
for a path or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley" title="Alley">alleyway</a>,
which is still in common use.<sup id="cite_ref-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitten#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup>
The word is also in common use in the London
residential area known as Hampstead Garden Suburb.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Elsewhere
in the country, such alleyways are termed <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chare" title="Chare">chares</a></i> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-east_England" title="North-east England">north-east England</a>), <i>opes</i> (Plymouth), <i>jiggers</i> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool" title="Liverpool">Liverpool</a>)
and <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snickelways" title="Snickelways">snickelways</a></i>
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York" title="York">York</a>).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">For
"chare" read this:<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chare">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chare</a><br>
<br>
For "snickelway" read here:<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snickelways">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snickelways</a><br>
<br>
The picture of the snickelway you see there might as well be that of a <i>Twiete</i>
in old-time Hamburg.<br>
<br>
I assume that "snickel" started off as a frequentive form of a
cognate of "sneak".<br>
<br>
The German Wikipedia mentions "Twiete":<br>
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiete">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiete</a><br>
<br>
Not all that many true "Twieten" are left in Hamburg. Many have retained the name but
have become "proper" streets, and others were destroyed during WWII
carpet bombing.<br>
<br>
Please let me emphasize that "Twieten" are not exclusive to Hamburg. They can be
found in much of Sleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony
and in parts of the Westphalian area as well. I am not sure about other
regions.<br>
<br>
"Twete" (<i>tweyte</i>) is an alternative form.<br>
<br>
Here you can see the closed-in entrance to a "Twiete" from a street:<br>
<a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3092/2593126814_f5df5e481c.jpg?v=0">http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3092/2593126814_f5df5e481c.jpg?v=0</a><br>
<br>
Most of them are no longer closed in but have been made into pedestrians-only
alleyways; e.g.<br>
<a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3087/2593127170_a5591498de.jpg?v=0">http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3087/2593127170_a5591498de.jpg?v=0</a><br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
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