"stotting" brings to my mind only faint recollections of a behaviour demonstrated by gazelles(?) -- leaping up and down when they notice a predator. This I probably read about in a Richard Dawkins book (at a guess, The Selfish Gene) as an example of apparently altruistic behaviour which is then shown to be in the selfish interests of some genetic material. I'm guessing that this isn't the meaning you had in mind...
Of the rest, I'd only be able to make wild guesses based on context, and certainly wouldn't use any of them. (A life spent in Hertfordshire, Oxford, and London does little to educate me in the dialects of the north.)
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Are there gazelles in the North?
Date: 2003-10-18 03:24 pm (UTC)Of the rest, I'd only be able to make wild guesses based on context, and certainly wouldn't use any of them. (A life spent in Hertfordshire, Oxford, and London does little to educate me in the dialects of the north.)