Twitter in Cumbria Dialect

Folks have telt me of late, people are really gittan carried away with twitterin on the net. Ivverybody, including the Queen and all them posh and fancy folk seem to be doing it. Ivverywhere yer gaa yer hear aboot it. But twitter has a varra different meaning in Lake District dialect.

Twitter – edge. ‘Just in a twitter’ or on the very edge.
In a twitter – soon, quickly.

In the Borrowdale valley (south of Keswick) it's slightly different.

Twitter – very near.

Of interest, when folk ‘twit’ – in Cumberland dialect means

Twit – to sneer at.

You can of course, also refer to a person as a ‘twit’ – meaning a idiot or acting in a silly or stupid manner(usually delivered in a light hearted way).