Posted by PeterH on June 06, 2006 at 16:56:06 from 86.130.135.3 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on June 06, 2006 at 12:44:34:
If it is an error, then it must have been perpetrated by AR himself. An early draft of 'S&A', kept at Abbot Hall Museum, Kendal, has 'Folk generally what do'. As AR worked on this draft and made many changes, it is unlikely that he would have missed this if it had been a mistake. I reckon it is dialect for 'Folk generally do [like to look inside]'.