For the first time, when people were calling you 'a pickle herring' (a jack-pudding; a merry-andrew; a zany; a buffoon), a 'jobbernowl (loggerhead; blockhead) or a 'fopdoodle' (a fool; an insignificant; wretch) - you could understand exactly what they meant - and you'd have the consolation of knowing they all used the standard spelling.