In the weaving sheds and cotton mills of Lancashire, workers developed an exaggerated form of speech and gesture called mee-mawing to facilitate lip-reading. h

In the weaving sheds and cotton mills of Lancashire, workers developed an exaggerated form of speech and gesture called mee-mawing to facilitate lip-reading. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=f6fQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37&dq=mee-maw+weaving&source=bl&ots=yMnVEU9jiy&sig=mncms_7m4AKnokLIq1awqQxxz-g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiovpCHuonNAhVkDMAKHQvBDgIQ6AEIKDAD#v=onepage&q=mee-maw%20weaving&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=f6fQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37&lpg...