She fetched ’im round to one of _them_ revivalist chaps. (Sketches 201. 2.) _A waiter._ I wouldn’t ’ave ’em know as ’ow I was one o’ _them_ college blokes. (Novel Notes 203. 90.) _Uncultivated young man._ With _them_ little hands. (Woodb. Farm 19. 20.) _A farmer._ Enclitic _here_ (always written _’ere_: _this ’ere_, _that ’ere_, etc.) is very common. Of enclitic _there_ I have found no example in Jerome. The assimilation of _m_ in himself (hisself) is regular. _Nouns._ The vulgar tongue has a strong liking for _diminutive forms_ ending in _-y_, _-ey_. I have found in Jerome the following instances. _matey_ (dim. of mate): term of address. _cockey_ ( » » cock) » » » _sonny_ ( » » son) » » » _baccy_ (dim. of tobacco > bacco). _ninny_ ( » » nincompoop); non compos mentis = simpleton. Cf. _milky_ = milkman; _dusty_ = dustman; _bricky_ = bricklayer; _posty_ = postman (Baumann). Sometimes, the tendency to form words ending in _-y_ seems to extend also to _the Participle_. _humpy_ (humped?) = dull, miserable (T. T. T. 156. 20). _dotty_ (dotted?) = dizzy, idiotic (Tommy And Co. 61. 28). (Cf. _dreaming_ > _dreamy_; _chatting_ > _chatty_, etc.) An instance of _double-possessive_ appears in Sketches p. 201. 8. They told him as ’ow it was _folks’s_ own fault that they were poor. (Cf. Swed. »_hanses_ rock», etc.) III. Syntactical Remarks. Constructions with _To be_ and _the Present Participle_ are used colloquially, with the intention of vividness, in many cases where there is no particular reason to stress the fact that a thought is just a going on, a tendency especially characteristic of the Celtic-speaking Englishman. The uneducated vulgus have a strong predilection for these constructions and overdo them, as in the following examples, where there is not any reason at all for using them: I’d ’ave ’ad to wait a long time, _I’m thinking_, if I ’adn’t come across this one ’ere. (T. T. T. 148. 18.) _Uncultivated Londoner._ You don’t see many fish that size about here now, _I’m thinking_. (Three Men In A Boat 221. 24.) _A farmer._ _I am hoping_ it will be some sensible, pleasant woman. (Tommy And Co. 164. 12.) _A London gentleman with a strong liking for vulgarism._ Adjectives, adverbs, and other words are often accompanied by a pleonastic _-like_. I stands respectful-like (T. T. T. 141. 9.) I see him sitting up like (P. Kelver II. 236. 28.) I was talking sarcastic-like ( » 250. 14.) ... he answers sulky-like (T. T. T. 157. 7.) ... says she, after considering-like (T. T. T. 127. 2.) more cheerful-like (Sketches 201. 22.) They met accidental-like (T. T. T. 144. 4.) «Pity», she says, musing-like (T. T. T. 143. 3.) Etc. Etc.