(_Such-like_ is quite normal. In fact, when the word is not attributive, »such» would now be colloquial, e.g. »thieves and such» for »such-like», »the like».) _Adverbs_ are often substituted for _adjectives_. It was _awful_ gloomy before. (Three Men In A Boat 63. 30.) Not a _particular_ nice class as you meet there. (Tommy And Co. 17. 1.) _Uncultivated Londoner._ She’d come in _regular_ with her young man. (T. T. T. 130. 3.) _A waiter._ I snapped him up _shortish_. (T. T. T. 196. 2.) _The same._ I’m _fair_ sick of ’er. (Novel Notes 212. 12.) _Uncultivated young man._ He _fair_ settled ’im. (Sketches 201. 2.) _Uncultivated old woman._ They met _accidental_-like. (T. T. T. 144. 4.) _A waiter._ This tendency extends, however, to the colloquial language of the cultivated. »_Precious_», for instance, is almost regularly substituted for _very_ by many persons of some education. (The inverse construction—_adverb_ instead of _adjective_—may be heard now and then: the child looked very _nicely_, etc.) _Adjectives turned into a Plural Noun to express a State of Mind._ I used to get the fair _dismals_ watching it. (T. T. T. 129. 21.) _A Waiter._ It gave me the _blues_ for a day or two—that bit of news. (T. T. T. 146. 20.) _The same._ _As_ stands very often for _Relative Pronouns_ without a preceding _such_. It’s the world _as_ I’m complaining of. (T. T. T. 157. 12.) The sort _as_ likes it and the sort _as_ don’t. (T. T. T. 205. 5.) ’E don’t cotton much to them _as_ ain’t found grace. (Sketches 199. 28.) Etc. Etc. Nearly as often, _as_ or _as how_ is substituted for subordinate _that_. I don’t think _as_ I can. (T. T. T. 127. 2.) They shan’t say _as_ I have disgraced them. (T. T. T. 145. 8.) They told him _as ’ow_ it was folks’s own fault that they was poor. (Sketches 201. 8.) The papers always said _as how_ she was charming. (T. T. T. 137. 14.) It was evidently his turn to think _as how_ I was mad. (T. T. T. 188. 25.) Constructions with _so_ ... _that_ are contracted in the following manner. She was _that_ clean you might have eaten your dinner out of her hand. (T. T. T. 133. 16.) _A waiter._ I wur _that_ taken aback I couldn’t tell ’ee what it wur. (Woodb. Farm 56. 35.) _A farmer._ Double _Negative Particle_ is rather common—as in German and other languages also. She don’t get no better. (Sketches 194. 10.) ’E ain’t never been his old self since then. (Sketches 201. 3.) I ain’t no bloomin’ Smythe. (Novel Notes 203. 7.) Etc. The ordinary confusion of _on_ and _of_ occurs in one instance, admirably illustrating the difficulties the uneducated meet with as often as they try to disguise the fatal dropping of the _h_’s: