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Pit bonk wenches

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@User:Ttocserp The opening paragraph to this article states "Some words were in use throughout the coalfields, some are historic and some are local to the different British coalfields". 'Pit bonk wenches' was the term used in the Black Country coalfield for pit brow lasses. Readers of this encyclopedia studying Black Country mining would not necessarily recognise "pit brow lasses". I ~~reject~~ don't follow your reason of "local trivia". However, in an attempt to gain ~~spirit of~~ consensus I'm willing to change "bonk" (the local Black Country dialect) to "bank" as the "proper" English, if that's your concern. Rupples (talk) 13:45, 20 May 2023 (UTC) (edited:Rupples (talk) 18:41, 20 May 2023 (UTC))Reply

Hi Ttocserp, been looking into this and I'm beginning to come round to your point of view. I'm trying to ascertain how widespread the Black Country term was used historically. Also, in an official list of mining occupations from 1921 "pit brow girl" is an official term to which alternative names are referred see [1]. Please bear with me while I investigate further. Rupples (talk) 22:39, 20 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

OK. I've searched newspaper archives and the use of the term seems to be associated with a single photograph captioned "Pit bank wenches" of Wednesbury. No evidence of widespread historical use of the term so I'm withdrawing my objection to its removal. Rupples (talk) 00:30, 21 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

It does have a certain ho-ho-ho, Rugby-song, quality to it not entirely appropriate to an encyclopaedic article on industry terminology. Why not remove it? :=) Ttocserp 07:57, 21 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Now removed. Rupples (talk) 19:14, 21 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

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