Northamptonshire has its poet, John Clare; and Suffolk can boast of
Robert Bloomfield. According to her own statement, printed in the
Preface (p. viii) to the E.D.S. _Bibliographical List_, George Eliot,
when writing _Adam Bede_, had in mind "the talk of N. Staffordshire
and the neighbouring part of Derbyshire"; whilst, in _Silas Marner_,
"the district imagined is in N. Warwickshire." Southey wrote
_T' Terrible Knitters e' Dent_ in the Westmoreland dialect.
Yorkshire, like Lancashire, has a large literature, to which
the _E.D.D._ Booklist can alone do justice.
SCOTTISH (Group 3): ABERDEEN.
The following extract is from Chapter XVIII of _Johnny Gibb of
Gushetneuk_, by W. Alexander, LL.D., fifteenth edition, Edinburgh,
1908. One special peculiarity of the dialect is the use of _f_ for
_wh_, as in _fat_, what, _fan_, when. The extract describes how the
speaker and his friends went to hear a bellman make a proclamation
about the appointment of a new minister to a church.
It's a vera stiff brae, an' ere we wan up to the kirk, it was gyaun
upon eleyven o'clock.
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