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A town crier, also called a bellman, [1] is an officer of a royal court or public authority who makes public pronouncements as required. [2] Duties and functions.
The custom of hawking led many vendors to create custom melodic phrases to attract attention. At a time when a large proportion of the population were illiterate, the cries of street vendors and town criers provided the public with important messages, whether those messages were commercial in nature or of more general public interest. Street ...
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When news broke that the Duchess of Cambridge had given birth to a son on Monday afternoon, there was one who (if unexpectedly) stole the spotlight for a moment in
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The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest printed use to an Alabama newspaper in 1835. [2] Peckerwood was in use in reference to white people by 1859; it often suggested a white person who was rustic or poor. [2] [3] The shortened form peck was in use in the same sense in the 1920s. [8]
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Beetty Dick (1693-1773) was an elderly town crier for Dalkeith, a town in Midlothian, Scotland in the mid-18th century. [1]Instead of using a bell, Dick would beat a wooden plate with a spoon making a loud din to draw attention to announcements, working for just a penny per announcement. [2]