My head 'ood swim,--I 'oodn't do't
Nut even fur a guinea;
A naarbour ax'd me, t'other day;
"Naa, naa," says I, "nut quinny."
Notes.--_Sput_, spot; _toddlers_, walkers; _ollis_, always;
_haut_, halt; _wiew_, view. _Crake_, boast; _leas(t)ways_, at
least; _sarteny_, certainly; _monsus_, monstrous, very long.
_No sense ov a_, poor, bad; _coad_, cold; _argufy_, prove
(anything).
_Sum'dy_, somebody; _from M._, between Maldon and Kelvedon;
_'gin_, against, near; _four-releet_ (originally _four-e leet_,
lit. "ways of four," _four-e_ being the genitive plural, hence)
meeting of four roads.
_Dorn't_, don't; _aldoe_, although; _uster cud_ (for _us'd to
could_), used to be able; _warsley_, vastly, much; _loike_,
like; _gulch_, heavily, with a bang.
_'Ood_, would; _nut_, not; _ax'd_, asked; _naa_, no; _nut
quinny_, not quite, not at all.
EASTERN (Group 3): NORFOLK.
The following extract from "A Norfolk Dialogue" is from a work
entitled _Erratics by a Sailor_, printed anonymously at London in
1800, and written by the Rev.
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