The corruptions or variations of consonants are not so marked as those of vowels. The most notable are the hardening of Th into Dd, making father, _fadder_, mother, _mūdder_, etc.; and the dropping of the two last of the three letters in the definite article, well illustrated by the Whitehaven boy’s reply to an enquiry as to what ships had come in:—“_T’_ ’Enry, an’ _t’_ ’Ebe, an’ _t’_ Ant, an’ _t’_ Atlas, an’ _t’_ Aurora;” i.e. the Henry, the Hebe, the Ant, the Atlas, and the Aurora. Then we may notice the discarding of the final letter from all words ending in ing, and changing that syllable in all present participles to _an_, the participle of pass being in Cumberland more like the French pass_ant_ than the English pass_ing_; also the final age being made _ish_, as in _cabbish_ for cabbage, _manish_ for manage, etc.; the final ous too undergoing the same change, as in _faymish_ for famous, _parlish_ for parlous, etc.; also idge as in _poddish_ for porridge, or primarily, potage. V is often converted into B or Bb—evening, eleven, Whitehaven being called _ebenin’_, _elebben_, _Whitehebben_, etc. These corruptions and deviations comprise nearly all the points wherein the dialect of Cumberland differs in sound and pronunciation from ordinary English speech; and set forth roughly, as they are, (abbreviations explaining themselves, and archaic words being given in a concise glossary) they may, with a little attention, enable the uninitiated reader to understand all the Cumbrian pieces contained in this volume. Some irregular verbs, as well as some not commonly classed as irregular, are curiously varied in Cumbrian conjugations. I give a few of these, written down as they rise in recollection, and arranged a la Lindley Murray.