--Observe _z_ and _v_ for initial _s_ and _f_; _harnet_,
hornet; _bittle_, beetle; _zet_, sat; _proper_, very; _twoad_,
toad, wretch; _a_, he; _stinge_, sting; _bagganet_, bayonet.
_Thuck_, that; _clim_, climb; _giv_, gave; _zet_, sit; _ael_, all.
_Th' sha'sn't_, thou shalt not; _mixen_, dung-heap.
_Yuckel_, woodpecker; _axed_, asked; _vamous munch_, excellent
meal; _lear_, empty; _caddlin'_, quarrelsome.
SOUTHERN (Group 3): ISLE OF WIGHT.
The following colloquy is quoted in the _Glossary of Isle of Wight
Words_, E.D.S., 1881, at p. 50.
I recollect perfectly the late Mr James Phillips of Merston relating
a dialogue that occurred between two of his labourers relative to
the word _straddle-bob_, a beetle.... At the time of luncheon, one
of them, on taking his _bren-cheese_ (bread and cheese) out of a
little bag, saw something that had found its way there; which led
to the following discourse.
_Jan._ What's got there, you?
_Will._ A straddlebob craalun about in the nammut-bag.
_J._ Straddlebob? Where ded'st leyarn to caal 'n by that neyam?
_W.
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