“The” West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and Phrases Used in the West of Somerset and East Devon, Volume 13; Volume 17Trübner, 1886 - 876 pages |
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A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and Phrases Used in the West of ... a - got none o ' um ( or contracted to o'm ) . 3. It drops its consonant and ... got a little bit of ort vrash like . Her's about of eighty , I count . This ...
A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and Phrases Used in the West of ... a - got none o ' um ( or contracted to o'm ) . 3. It drops its consonant and ... got a little bit of ort vrash like . Her's about of eighty , I count . This ...
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A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and Phrases Used in the West of ... a student to know what is not done in a district , as to be informed on points ... got the measles - the scarlet fever , & c . I've a - got the rheumatic ter ...
A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and Phrases Used in the West of ... a student to know what is not done in a district , as to be informed on points ... got the measles - the scarlet fever , & c . I've a - got the rheumatic ter ...
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... the butcher . How be taties zillin ? Au ! you can buy so many's you mind to vor vive - i . e . five shillings per bag of 8 score , or 160 lbs . Whate do yieldy well about ; Mr. Slape ' ad a - got more'n forty out o ' thick there ten ...
... the butcher . How be taties zillin ? Au ! you can buy so many's you mind to vor vive - i . e . five shillings per bag of 8 score , or 160 lbs . Whate do yieldy well about ; Mr. Slape ' ad a - got more'n forty out o ' thick there ten ...
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A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and Phrases Used in the West of ... got ort to doin way in all my born days ! See MORE , Most . Not is regularly ... the r long a being invariably fractured and r added = ae INTRODUCTION . xli.
A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and Phrases Used in the West of ... got ort to doin way in all my born days ! See MORE , Most . Not is regularly ... the r long a being invariably fractured and r added = ae INTRODUCTION . xli.
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... a before plenty and worth ; this use is without exception among dialect speakers . See I. A. 4 . I can't think where all the parsley's a - go to , we'd a - got a plenty avore Kirsmas , and now idn a mossle - bit . See PLENTY , Z 3 , Spot .
... a before plenty and worth ; this use is without exception among dialect speakers . See I. A. 4 . I can't think where all the parsley's a - go to , we'd a - got a plenty avore Kirsmas , and now idn a mossle - bit . See PLENTY , Z 3 , Spot .
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The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectcal and Archaic Words and ... Frederic Thomas Elworthy No preview available - 1888 |
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