Specimens of English Dialects: I. Devonshire: an Exmoor Scolding and CourtshipEnglish dialect society, 1879 - 222 Seiten |
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... common enough in the Western Dialects , are not polite English- yet we find them written by these old writers precisely as they are spoken to - day . For instance , ' Robert of Gloucester ' says , as pe hende he dude verst . The same ...
... common enough in the Western Dialects , are not polite English- yet we find them written by these old writers precisely as they are spoken to - day . For instance , ' Robert of Gloucester ' says , as pe hende he dude verst . The same ...
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... common expression , meaning that the matter was the result of a plot or conspiracy . 2 This form is obsolete — though it may survive in fags ! 3 p . part . of to fetch - it is now sounded rather broader -- vaat or vaut . There is an old ...
... common expression , meaning that the matter was the result of a plot or conspiracy . 2 This form is obsolete — though it may survive in fags ! 3 p . part . of to fetch - it is now sounded rather broader -- vaat or vaut . There is an old ...
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... common , meaning ' ds - heart , ' like the well - known zounds . Only the words which were then thought difficult were explained , and we may take it that the others were then considered too common and well - known to need remark . A ...
... common , meaning ' ds - heart , ' like the well - known zounds . Only the words which were then thought difficult were explained , and we may take it that the others were then considered too common and well - known to need remark . A ...
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... common formerly ; us is still the nominative most common in North Devon , and it is pronounced ess ; Nathan Hogg always spells it es . In the text the same word es has to represent both us and is in 1. 362 , and he is , 1. 462. The ...
... common formerly ; us is still the nominative most common in North Devon , and it is pronounced ess ; Nathan Hogg always spells it es . In the text the same word es has to represent both us and is in 1. 362 , and he is , 1. 462. The ...
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... common Converse with the lower Class of People , gave him frequent Opportunities of hearing and observing their Phrases and Diction ; and , as Persons deprived of Sight have generally a good Memory , he was thereby the better enabled to ...
... common Converse with the lower Class of People , gave him frequent Opportunities of hearing and observing their Phrases and Diction ; and , as Persons deprived of Sight have generally a good Memory , he was thereby the better enabled to ...
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Specimens of English Dialects: I. Devonshire. an Exmoor Scolding and Courtship Frederick Thomas Elworthy,William Hutton Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Andrew appear applied beat better called ch-úl chell common Dame dialect Dialogue early edition English Exmoor expression fire folks gang give given Glossary gurt hand head heard hence horse implies John kind late live look mack Margery Mary means never North obsolete person piece poor present printed pronounced references seem'd sense side soon sound spelt sure talk tell thee thing Thomasin thou true turn twas usual vore vrom W. S. Gram weel Wilmot word written Yorkshire young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite ix - Plight (towards the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century...
Seite 203 - He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles a-piece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours; and some alms he gave to the poor, and all this he did of the said farm.
Seite 203 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had...
Seite 191 - And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia : but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more...
Seite xviii - Melismata. Musicall Phansies, fitting the Court, Citie and Countrey Humours, to 3, 4 and 5 Voyces.
Seite 188 - God with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his mind, and with all his strength...
Seite 149 - Never ; he will not : Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed ; but she makes hungry, Where most she satisfies : for vilest things Become themselves in her ; that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Seite 212 - Ferdinando of Spain. But if you shall change Lewis the twelfth for Lewis the eleventh, who lived a little before, then the consort is more perfect. For that Lewis the eleventh, Ferdinando, and Henry, may be esteemed for the tres magi of Kings of those ages. To conclude, if this King did no greater matters, it was long of himself: for what he minded he compassed.
Seite xix - Iche pray you good mother tell our young dame, Whence I am come and what is my name, I cannot come a woing every day. Quoth the nurse, They be lubbers not lovers that so use to say.