_Stoo_, stool; _Thee think_, do thou think; _deeod_, dead;
_o'_, all; _get forrud_, get on, go on.
MIDLAND (Group 5): SHEFFIELD.
The following extract is from A. Bywater's _Sheffield Dialect_,
3rd ed, 1877; as quoted in S.O. Addy's _Sheffield Glossary_,
E.D.S., 1888, p. xv.
_Jerra Flatback._ Hah, they'n better toimes on't nah, booath e
heitin and clooas; we'n had menni a mess a nettle porridge an brawls
on a Sunda mo'nin, for us brekfast... Samma, dusta remember hah
menni names we had for sahwer wotcake?
_Oud Samma Squarejoint._ O kno'n't, lad; bur o think we'd foive or
six. Let's see: Slammak wer won, an' Flat-dick wer anuther; an't
tuther wor--a dear, mo memra fails ma--Flannel an' Jonta;
an-an-an-an--bless me, wot a thing it is tubbe oud, mo memra gers
war for ware, bur o kno heah's anuther; o'st think on enah.--
A, Jerra, heah's menni a thahsand dogs nah days, at's better dun
too nor we wor then; an them were t'golden days a Hallamshoir, they
sen. An they happen wor, for't mesters. Hofe at prentis lads e them
days wor lether'd whoile ther skin wor skoi-blue, and clam'd whoile
ther booans wer bare, an work'd whoile they wor as knock-kneed as
oud Nobbletistocks.
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