Re: UK slang help pls - a child's "guy"

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:16:14 +0100, HVS <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Sadly, the home-grown tradition seems to have largely been overtaken
by the imported tradition of trick-or-treating; Bonfire Night,
though, is still 5th November (although the big fireworks displays
are often shifted to the nearest weekend).

Except that in some areas of the UK, trick-or-treating and guising
have gone on uninterrupted for a few hundred years.
--
Linz
Wet Yorks via Cambridge, York, London and Watford
My accent may vary
.