Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1906 — Dialects of England. [ARTICLE]

Dialects of England.

The dialects of England are so various that grammatical eccentricities are commoner even tlinn among the mixed peoples of the United States. An English paper lias been printing some choice examples. In Somersetshire a party of masons are at work. One of their number is Idling. The foreman appears. Joe (wnrnlngly)—lll, Ben, there be gaffer eyln’ ee! Ben -Aye, I eyed ee eye I. An example from Punch, but true as to dialectic peculiarities, Is recalled. It is tln> reply of a farmer to a former vicar of his parish, who sympathized with him on the fact that his three elderly,, daughters were not married. “You zee, sur,” lie said, “when they would ha’ they, they wouldn’t ha’ they. Now they would ha’ they, they won’t lia’ they.”