My mother was evacuated to Norfolk (England) in the war, and I seem to remember her telling me that snails were known as “horny dodmans”.
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Stephen Burke:
April 28th, 2014 at 5:55 am
My mother was evacuated to Norfolk (England) in the war, and I seem to remember her telling me that snails were known as “horny dodmans”.