Chichester Observer

Skelly or shellapple?

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If you had lived a century ago, you might have used one of a score of dialect names for the chaffinch, such as caffer, caffincher, cavenger, chaffer, chiffey, bullspink, scobby, skelly, spink, twink, pink, shellapple, shelly, shilfer, wet bird, buckfinch, beechfinch, whitefinch, copperfinc­h or horsefinch.

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