Twitten

Twitten

Twitten is an old dialect word, used in both East and West Sussex, for a path or alleyway, which is still in common use. [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/southerncounties/voices2005/sx_gloss.shtml "Where I live:Sussex dialect words] ] The word is also in common use in the London residential area known as Hampstead Garden Suburb.

Elsewhere in the country, such alleyways are termed "chares" (north-east England), "opes" (Plymouth), "jiggers" (Liverpool) and "snickelways" (York).

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