'ankerchers

[Dave Robertson]

Just a quick note that may not be awfully on-topic:

In recent reading of stuff by Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson, I
find versions of a word spelled <'ankercher> for "handkerchief".  It also
turns up WW Jacobs's writing.  And it's a Lancashire dialect word:
http://www.mawdesley-village.org.uk/dialect.html.  

Having the interests I have, I'm reminded of Jargon <hankachim>,
<hakatshum>, and so on.  Still don't know where that final <m> came from!

--Dave R

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