Chapter XIX: Appendix: III

Monthly Magazine Word-list.

In the _Monthly Magazine_, Sept. 1814, vol. xxxviii. p. 114, a short and very badly arranged list of South Wilts Words and Phrases occurs. We have thought it best to reproduce it here, _verbatim et literatim_, from the Magazine itself, kindly lent us by Mr. Cunnington, as the account given of it in the Preface to Professor Skeat's reprint of Akerman is in some respects slightly inaccurate. Thus, he omits all mention of _Hogo_ and some other words or phrases, while _Tatees_ is misquoted as _taters_ and _Theseum_ as _Thescum_. The remarks made on the latter word will therefore require some modification.

Prefatory Note.

_To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine._ Sir, In conformity to your invitation, I send you some specimens of the provincial dialect of South Wiltshire.

MARK. _July_ 23, 1813.

The Word-list.

_Thic_, this.

_Thac_, that.--"_Thacs_ the way I _do_ do."

_Theseum_, these.--"What are _theseum_ here?"

_Dooke_, do you.--"Hold thy brother, dooke." Or, "dooke be
quiet." [Brother _is evidently a misprint for_ bother.]

_Volk_, folk.--"Vaut vine volks." What fine folks.

_Wuld_, world.--"The honestest volk in the wuld."

_Heft_, weight.--"What heft be 'um?"

_Hiss_, Yes.--"Hiss sure, mum." Yes sure, madam.

_Housen_, house.--"Yan housen." Yonder house.

A always pronounced R. [=broad]

"Send it _once_ this morning, dooke." Send it this morning.

"I _do_ know what they be." [=I don't know]

"Harnt thee got nareon." Have not you got one.

"Nice day izzent it?"--"Yes it is sure."

_Thee_ and _thou_ for _you_.

_Crockerty_, china.--"I've torn my crockerty."

_Terrible_, very.--"Lard! they be terrible dear."

_Torn_, broke.

_Hogo_, smell.

"_What a book of clothes._" What a large wash.

_Barm_, yeast.

_Caddling_, teazing, chattering.

"_Mud the child up, dooke._" Bring up the child by hand.

"_Lard, the child's got the white mouth._" The child's got the
thrush.

_Shrammed_, perished.--"I was half shrammed on the downs[2]."

_Tatees_, potatoes. "I do want a gallon of tatees."

_Figged Pudding_, plum pudding.

_Handy_, near.--Handy ten o'clock.

_Monthly Magazine_, Sept. 1814.

FOOTNOTE:

[2] [Here a foot-note is given in the Magazine, but has been obliterated in the only copy to which we have access.]

THE END.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious typographical errors were repaired.

P. xv: "D when preceded by a liquid"--original read "followed" in place of "preceded."

P. 30: p^d--original shows p with superscript d.

Appendix II: unusual spellings and capitalizations preserved as in original.

P. 228: "dain may be in his Cloths still"--"Cloths still" originally appeared below "Desperd" entry and "Page 3" heading.