Dirt mattered as an almost ubiquitous factor of everyday life. This paper focuses on the linguistic expression of ‘dirt’, here provisionally used as a cover term and in the literal, that is physical sense of the word. Footnote 2 We may assume that the English dialects of the Late Modern English (LModE) period (1700–1900) were a correlative of people's everyday life. In Britain up to the second half of the 19 th century, traditional dialect was the common linguistic medium of the large majority of people (the lower and middle classes), just before the norm of ‘King's English’ and, in linguistics, of système, started playing a dominant role. However, it makes sense to find out to what extent the spoken language of dialects in former centuries correlated with one of the dark sides of everyday reality. Arif, Reference Arif2015), the topic of this paper may seem embarrassing and ill-chosen. Given today's general bias towards euphemisms (cf.
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