- 2011, Ian Watson, The Fire Worm, Gateway (→ISBN), quoting the Ballad of the Lambton Worm, original: 1867 by C. M. Leumane:
- “One Sunday mornin' Lambton went
- afishin' in the Wear;
- An' catched a fish upon he's heuk,
- He thowt leuk't varry queer,
- But whatt'n a kind ov fish it was
- Young Lambton cuddent tell.
- 1899, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, page 158:
- "Whatt'n a day's spote you'm bin avin'? ” inquires the rustic. How good they are in their hearty interest in the pleasures they never share!
