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ALMONDBURT AND HUDDERSFIELD. 23 ' Wherever they go it may be seen How kirk and caumiy they soop dean.' Causey seems to be a paved footpath. Ancient Boman roads, which were always paved, are in many localities now caUed causeys; e. g., six miles soutn of Carlisle is an mn od the great Boman road always known by the name of * Causey House.' Causeway is a corraption of this word, and ought to be abolished; the local form is the true word. Cavil, bK a question in dispute. * It used to be a cavil whether Christmas Day was one of the twelve or one of the twenty/ i. e. in reckoning for Twelfte'em (the Epiphany) and Twentite'em. Ceiling, not confined to the roof, but used for a partition, by which a portion of a room, &c. is said to be * ceiUd off.' Censioners. The judges at rin^ng matches are so called. Perhaps it is derived from censure^ to judge, but I can find no trace of it in any glossair. Bell-iinging matches are common enough in this neighbourhooa, and would be much more so were it not for the steady opposition of the clergy, who object to them on account of the disorder they sometimes cause. The people frequently take advantage of the appomtment of an incumbent to a chiirch which has a peal of bells, and get permission for a match — ^not often refused unaer the circumstances. Formerly each set of ringers had their own censioner, but now only two censioners are appointea, who are placed in a room isolated from other persons, listen to the ringing, mark the blunders, and give judgment. This room at Almondbury was in the top storey of a lorty house, and the windows were covered with whitewash, so that the censioners might not be informed, by any signal from outside, what set of riogers was performing. Centage, i. e. per centage. ' He ligg'd his brass theer, and gate six per cent, and that's a varry gooid centage.* This word is certainly admitted into the lan^age, but falls in most harmoniously with the customs of the local dialect, rejoicing as it does in so many abbrevia- tions, some of which will be noticed m their places. Chamber, formerly Chanmber, now pronounced generally as usual. In the proper name Chambers it is still often Chaumbers, Chance child, an illegitimate child. Such a child is said to have been ' gotten in a raffle.' Change, with old people sometimes pronounced ehoinge, especioUy in money matters. Very common, I understand, at Holmfirth. Chap, a very common expression, used for man, person, &c. On one occasion a well-to-do manufacturer, to whom money was ' no object,' brought a boy to school as a boarder, and introducea me to the youth as follows : * This is the c?iap 'at's to taiche thee; tha mtm maund what he ses; and tha'll have to go to church, so tha mun behave thesen.' I must, however, observe that such an introduction never