APPENDIX III
Reading edition
Monthly Magazine Word-list.
In the Monthly Magazine, Sept. 1814, vol. xxxviii. p. 114, a short and very badly arranged list of South Wilts Words and Phrases occurs. We have thought it best to reproduce it here, verbatim et literatim, from the Magazine itself, kindly lent us by Mr. Cunnington, as the account given of it in the Preface to Professor Skeat's reprint of Akerman is in some respects slightly inaccurate. Thus, he omits all mention of Hogo and some other words or phrases, while Tatees is misquoted as taters and Theseum as Thescum. The remarks made on the latter word will therefore require some modification.
Prefatory Note.
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. Sir, In conformity to your invitation, I send you some specimens of the provincial dialect of South Wiltshire.
Mark. July 23, 1813.
The Word-list.
Thic, this.
Thac, that.—"Thacs the way I do do."
Theseum, these.—"What are theseum here?"
Dooke, do you.—"Hold thy brother, dooke." Or, "dooke be quiet." [Brother is evidently a misprint for bother.]
Volk, folk.—"Vaut vine volks." What fine folks.
Wuld, world.—"The honestest volk in the wuld."
Heft, weight.—"What heft be 'um?"
Hiss, Yes.—"Hiss sure, mum." Yes sure, madam.
Housen, house.—"Yan housen." Yonder house.
A always pronounced R. [=broad]
"Send it once this morning, dooke." Send it this morning.
"I do know what they be." [=I don't know]
"Harnt thee got nareon." Have not you got one.
"Nice day izzent it?"—"Yes it is sure."
Thee and thou for you.
Crockerty, china.—"I've torn my crockerty."
Terrible, very.—"Lard! they be terrible dear."
Torn, broke.
Hogo, smell.
"What a book of clothes." What a large wash.
Barm, yeast.
Caddling, teazing, chattering.
"Mud the child up, dooke." Bring up the child by hand.
"Lard, the child's got the white mouth." The child's got the thrush.
Shrammed, perished.—"I was half shrammed on the downs[2]."
Tatees, potatoes. "I do want a gallon of tatees."
Figged Pudding, plum pudding.
Handy, near.—Handy ten o'clock.
Monthly Magazine, Sept. 1814.
THE END.
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