These books were originally intended as a study of Derbyshire Dialect, particularly the distinctive speech of Ilkeston and the Erewash valley, but later editions acknowledge similarities in vocabulary and grammar which unite the East Midlands dialects and broadened their appeal to the region as a whole. Though spoken less commonly today, the dialect of the East Midlands has been investigated in texts such as the Ey Up Mi Duck series of books (and an LP) by Richard Scollins and John Titford.
Lawrence was from the Nottinghamshire town of Eastwood and wrote in the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Coalfield dialects in several poems as well as in his more famous works such as Lady Chatterley's Lover and Sons and Lovers. The romantic novelist and East Midlander D. This practise still continues among people of a certain age, but it is slowly dying out. In the East Midlands (where I was raised), it was quite common for adults who had never been introduced to casually call each other "Me duck". There are variations on this all over the country.
Is "luvver" just a different pronunciation of "lover" that has been picked up by common parlance? What about sometimes having "my" between them? I'm originally from West Dorset and everyone there says "my love" and sometimes just "love", I also lived in Exeter for a few years where "luvver" or "my luvver" seems to be the norm.
I added an explanation of these terms being used towards strangers, to prevent any grockles getting confused over their summer hols :) I'm not really sure on the origin of the differences between them though, so if anyone could shed any light on that would be useful. It is almost certainly a fairly ordinary West Country term of endearment in the UK, although I cannot give a definitive citation.
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