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Further , I have not taken any word at second - hand except in a few cases , where I have specially given my informant's initials ; but every word noted has been heard spoken by myself ( except as above ) , and must be accepted ...
Further , I have not taken any word at second - hand except in a few cases , where I have specially given my informant's initials ; but every word noted has been heard spoken by myself ( except as above ) , and must be accepted ...
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... and although there is a superabundance of rough , coarse language , yet foul - mouthed obscenity is a growth of cities , and I declare I have never heard it , so it cannot be recorded by me . It must be understood that in a book of ...
... and although there is a superabundance of rough , coarse language , yet foul - mouthed obscenity is a growth of cities , and I declare I have never heard it , so it cannot be recorded by me . It must be understood that in a book of ...
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... I heard Jim say to Jack , if he did not leave alone the scales while he was underneath , he would break his head . Nothing here but the form of the possessive shows who's head would be broken .
... I heard Jim say to Jack , if he did not leave alone the scales while he was underneath , he would break his head . Nothing here but the form of the possessive shows who's head would be broken .
Page xxi
The pronoun it is sometimes emphasized and is then pronounced [ ee : t ] , but its use is uncommon , and only heard in such sentences as — I tell ee it is ( ee - t ai - z ] , where both words are stressed by way of asseveration .
The pronoun it is sometimes emphasized and is then pronounced [ ee : t ] , but its use is uncommon , and only heard in such sentences as — I tell ee it is ( ee - t ai - z ] , where both words are stressed by way of asseveration .
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As , I may venture to say , is never used before if ; as if is never I heard , but always , in the way before illustrated , our idiom is s - off , or ' s thoff - i . e . as though . Neither is it found in such refined company as for or ...
As , I may venture to say , is never used before if ; as if is never I heard , but always , in the way before illustrated , our idiom is s - off , or ' s thoff - i . e . as though . Neither is it found in such refined company as for or ...
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| Title | The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and Phrases Used in the West of Somerset and East Devon, Volume 35 Issue 50 of Publication, English Dialect Society The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and Phrases Used in the West of Somerset and East Devon, Frederick Thomas Elworthy |
| Author | Frederick Thomas Elworthy |
| Publisher | For the Englis ̈dialect society, Trübner & Company, 1886 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 876 pages |
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