Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent: Being Short Stories and Rhymes in the Dialects of the West Border CountiesGibson, Alexander Craig
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Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent: Being Short Stories and Rhymes in the Dialects of the West Border Counties
Gibson, Alexander Craig
English language -- Dialects -- England -- Cumberland -- Texts
Jwohnny, Git oot! (Ibid.) 40
The Runaway Wedding (Ibid.) 43
Billy Watson’ Lonning (Ibid.) 46
Lone and Weary (Ibid.) 50
T’ Clean Ned o’ Kes’ick (Ibid.) 53
Ben Wells (Ibid.) 57
Sannter Bella (Ibid.) 60
Branthet Neùk Boggle (Ibid.) 63
Mary Ray and Me (Ibid.) 73
The Bannasyde Cairns (High Furness.) 76
Betty Yewdale (Ibid.) 82
The Skulls of Calgarth (Westmorland.) 89
Māp’ment (High Furness.) 101
Oxenfell Dobby (Ibid.) 104
Meenie Bell (Dumfriesshire.) 113
A Lockerbye Lyck (Old Scotch.) 116
The Farmers’ Wives o’ Annandale (Dumfriesshire.) 128
A Reminiscence of Corrie (Ibid.) 131
Reminiscences of Lockerbie (Ibid.) 143
Yan o’ t’ Elect (Cumberland.) 151
Keàtie Curbison’s Cat (Ibid.) 157
Joseph Thompson’s Thumb (Ibid.) 160
Cursty Benn (Ibid.) 168
Tom Railton’s White Spats (Ibid.) 172
A Sneck Possett (Ibid.) 180
Remarks on the Cumberland Dialect 183
Glossary 189
JOE AND THE GEOLOGIST.
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