- Mee-mawing
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Coordinates: 53°49′N 2°16′W / 53.82°N 2.26°W Mee-mawing was a form of speech with exaggerated movements to allow lip reading employed by workers in weaving sheds in Lancashire in the nineteenth and twentieth century. The noise in a weaving shed renders hearing impossible so workers communicated by mee-mawing which was a cross between mime and lip reading.[1] To have a private conversation when there were other weavers present, the speaker would cup their hand over their mouth to obscure vision. This was very necessary as a mee-mawer would be able to communicate over distances of tens of yards /metres. It was said that each mill had its own dialect.
See also
- Queen Street Mill
References
- Notes
- ^ Freethy 2008, p. 123
- Bibliography
- Freethy, Ron (2008). Memories of the Lancashire Cotton Mills. Newbury,Berks: Countryside Books. ISBN 9781846741043.
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