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Witham
You were born, I suppose, at Little Witham. A reproof to a
noodle. The pun, of course, is on little wit. Witham is in
Lincolnshire.
“I will be sworn she was not born at Wittham, for Gaffer
Gibbs says she could not turn up a single lesson like a
Christian” —
Sir
Walter
Scott
Heart of Mid-Lothian, chap. xxxii.
Puns of this sort are very common. (See
Bedfordshire, Nod, Dunce, Cripplegate, Shanks' Nag etc.)
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