A Contribution to An Essex Dialect Dictionary. Supplement
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p. 55. That for so that is also used consecutively. ' He was that comical I couldn't stand 'm n' longer.' (note). ' About as common.' Variants are ' better, wuss, wusser'n common.' See remark on p. 44 above. p. 57. Along of for along with is apparently not literary. But it may be that the preposition following along is not of (0'), but a, the compre- hensive atonic a of p. 64, for with. Along of for owing to is in litera- ture from the i6th century. Before that the phrase was along on. Shaks., ...Cymb., V. v. 271, ' Long of her it was that we meet here so strangely. ' ,, To of constructions add vexed of. See Diet, section above. p. 58: 1. 10. Of following transitive verb-nouns (' what's he bin a doin' of ' etc.) has high literary authority. Tindale (1534), Mat. ix. 9, ' He sawe a man syt a receauynge of custome ' ; Shaks., Timon V. i. 188, ' Why, I was writing of my epitaph,' Pepys, Diary, 19 March 1666, ' They being altering of the stage.' For of following off see off below. ,, Off is followed by of (i6th c., for earlier from).
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