dubdobdee | wiki-illiam #104: q8

Q8: What:
i: is also a game using 28 marbles?
ii: formed part of a linear horticultural decoration?
iii: are typically preserved in seasoned butter in Lancashire?
iv: when released in America, suggested involvement with Christine Keeler?
v: are geographically confusing names of what is neither one thing nor the other?
vi: pelecypod was perhaps familiar to the pupils (and their successors) of Rev Thomas Langhorne?
vii: did the man from the Borough regard as the invariable accompaniment of poverty?
viii: legs are found in unbaled water together with tangled lines?
ix: nominally, has blue representatives in another kingdom?
x: when baked too brown, must sugar his hair?

the rules as they have evolved:
a: nice full answers and anecdotes if poss
b: say if googled or no; leave time for non-googlers to play
c: obviously look ahead at future questions if you want
d: don't bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running

spoilers x is the lobster in the alice in wonderland song "the lobster quadrille" (as sung by the walrus and the carpenter); kingdom in ix i bet is eg animal or vegetable or mineral kingdoms