1.  Another local plant name that my older family members handed down to me is sourgobs (for obvious reasons) with gob being Lancashire dialect for mouth [Milnrow, Lancashire, May 2017].

2.  From my mum, who is Polish:  sorrel gathered to make soup, using onion, potato and sour cream, often with hard-boiled egg  [London, SE1, February 2016].

3.  [Invergordon, Ross-shire, 1950s] as kids we used to chew a leaf growing on the ground, which we called sourey souracks [e-mail, September 2013].

4. [From] relatives in the Newcastle-on-Clun area of Shropshire … sorrel known locally as smart ass [Sandiway, Cheshire, October 2004].

5. I started school in the [19]50s … sorrel stalks were good to chew [Capel, Kent, February 1998].

6. [Truro, Cornwall] sorrel grew abundantly in fields everywhere, but none of us knew it by that name – the only name we knew was sour sabs (and still do) [Hackney, London, February 1998].

7. Names which may be local to the north of England … Rumex acetosa – bitterdabs, sourdabs [York, February 1998].

Images: main, South West Coast Path between Bideford and Clovelly, north Devon; March 2014; inset, The Helm, Oxenholme, Cumbria, May 2015.