Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent

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Alexander Craig Gibson. Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent

Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent

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PREFACE

JOE AND THE GEOLOGIST

T’ REETS ON’T;

BOBBY BANKS’ BODDERMENT (A Sup of Coald Keàl het up ageàn.)

WISE WIFF

LAL DINAH GRAYSON

JWOHNNY, GIT OOT!

THE RUNAWAY WEDDING

BILLY WATSON’ LONNING

LONE AND WEARY

T’ CLEAN NED O’ KES’ICK

BEN WELLS

SANNTER, BELLA!

BRANTHET NEUK BOGGLE (A TEAL FOR A WINTER NEEGHT.)

MARY RAY AN’ ME

THE BANNASYDE “CAIRNS.” (IN THE DIALECT OF HIGH FURNESS.)

BETTY YEWDALE (Extract from a Lecture on “The People of the English Lake Country, in their Humorous Aspect.”)

THE SKULLS OF CALGARTH. A Reminiscence of Windermere. (CHIEFLY IN THE DIALECT OF WESTMORLAND.)

MAP’MENT (IN THE DIALECT OF HIGH FURNESS.)

OXENFELL DOBBY. A Reminiscence of Langdale

MEENIE BELL

“A LOCKERBYE LYCKE.”11 (MODERN ANTIQUE.)

“THE FARMERS’ WIVES O’ ANNANDALE.”

A REMINISCENCE OF CORRIE

REMINISCENCES OF LOCKERBIE

YAN O’ T’ ELECT

KEATY CURBISON’S CAT. AN OALD, OALD STWORY

JOSEPH THOMPSON’S THUMB. AN OLD HARRINGTON STORY

CURSTY BENN

TOM RAILTON’S WHITE SPATS

A SNECK POSSET

REMARKS ON THE CUMBERLAND DIALECT

A GLOSSARY. OF. SCOTCH AND CUMBRIAN WORDS

Footnote

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Alexander Craig Gibson

Being Short Stories and Rhymes in the Dialects of the West Border Counties

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YAN O’ T’ ELECT.

KEATY CURBISON’S CAT. AN OALD, OALD STWORY.

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