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Skeat, Walter William, 1835-1912

"English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day"


"Hooray, Jud! hooray, owd mon!" shaouted Jock Carter o' Runjer;
"tha'rt game, if tha'rt owd!"
Just at that vary minit Jud's weife, bad as hoo were wi' th'
rheumatic, pushed her roo{a}d through th' foaks, and stood i' th'
frunt o' th' show.
"Go it agen, Jud! here's th' weife coom t'see hah gam tha art!"
shaouted Jonas.
Jud turn'd rahnd an gurned at th' frunt o' th' show wi' his faace
aw ruddle.
"Tha girt soo! I'll baste thi when aw get thi hwom, that aw will!"
shaouted Betty Bresskittle; "aw wunder tha artna ashamed o' thisen,
to stond theer a-feightingk th' deevil hissel!"
Notes.--_Jud_, for George; _leet_, light; _bowd_, bold;
_dandycock_, Bantam cock; _gradely_, proper; _gen_, gave; _owd_,
old; _reet ee_, right eye; _git_, got; _as weild as weild_, as
wild as could be; _aht_, out; _at-aftur_, after; _gurt_, great;
_em_, him; _floy_, fly; _Runjer_, Ringway; _game_ (also _gam_),
full of pluck; _hoo_, she; _rooad_, road, way; _gurned_,
grinned; _soo_, sow (term of abuse); _hwom_, home; _thisen_,
thyself.


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