Specimens of English Dialects: I. Devonshire: an Exmoor Scolding and CourtshipEnglish dialect society, 1879 - 222 Seiten |
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... talk of our forefathers , they were , at the time they were written , to the dominant governing classes , much the same as similar writings would be now , if written in Welsh or Gaelic . One consequence of the utter disuse of English as ...
... talk of our forefathers , they were , at the time they were written , to the dominant governing classes , much the same as similar writings would be now , if written in Welsh or Gaelic . One consequence of the utter disuse of English as ...
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... or those who try to talk ' fine . ' The form throughout N. Devon and Exmoor now is twaz when emphatic , precisely the sound of has in lit. Eng . 25 than Ount Annis Moreman1 coul'd ha'2 blessed vore , AN EXMOOR SCOLDING . 27.
... or those who try to talk ' fine . ' The form throughout N. Devon and Exmoor now is twaz when emphatic , precisely the sound of has in lit. Eng . 25 than Ount Annis Moreman1 coul'd ha'2 blessed vore , AN EXMOOR SCOLDING . 27.
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... talk . Aay yuurd um tuul een tugadh'ur . ' I heard them talking together . ' Doa un tuul aup zich stuuf , is the usual way of saying , ' don't talk nonsense . ' Aay yuurd um tuul aew wee bee gwai'n vur t - ae'u aard wee'ntur . ' I heard ...
... talk . Aay yuurd um tuul een tugadh'ur . ' I heard them talking together . ' Doa un tuul aup zich stuuf , is the usual way of saying , ' don't talk nonsense . ' Aay yuurd um tuul aew wee bee gwai'n vur t - ae'u aard wee'ntur . ' I heard ...
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... talk . Thomasin to Wilmot would have said muyn , ' mind ' - to the parson or a ' real gentleman , ' raimúmbur . 8 Spelt valst in l . 169 . 9 Navel - so claa'ul for clavel , shoo ul for shovel , graa ul for gravel . 10 This is a very ...
... talk . Thomasin to Wilmot would have said muyn , ' mind ' - to the parson or a ' real gentleman , ' raimúmbur . 8 Spelt valst in l . 169 . 9 Navel - so claa'ul for clavel , shoo ul for shovel , graa ul for gravel . 10 This is a very ...
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... talk . See note 11 , 1. 116 ; also 1. 137 . 11 This whole sentence reads apocryphal - I never heard the word fib in the dialect , and no one ever heard heartily . Moreover the word hearty would not be used in this sense . 4 151 up ...
... talk . See note 11 , 1. 116 ; also 1. 137 . 11 This whole sentence reads apocryphal - I never heard the word fib in the dialect , and no one ever heard heartily . Moreover the word hearty would not be used in this sense . 4 151 up ...
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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
abaut Andrew avore beat Beaumont and Fletcher Ben Jonson Bood bút ch-úl chell common dest Devon Devonshire dhee dhu wút dialect dialogues doant drow dús edition epithet Exmoor folks Fump gang Glos Glossary gurt guurt Halliwell heard hence heve horse John Noakes knaw Kuuz'n leet maar mack Margery means meend misprint Nares never nivver obsolete Parv person pron pronounced pronunciation Prov Raund Robert of Gloucester Scolding seay seem'd Skeat sound Spelt tack tell thee thing Thomasin thoo thou Tiptree tùe tuul verb voaks vore vrom W. S. Gram Waay wark weel Wilmot word wull zich þat
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.