The Dialect of Hackness (North-East Yorkshire) With Original Specimens, And a Word-List
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171. M.E. au has regularly become [o:], having passed through the stages [au >a: > oi]\ The earlier stage, a:, is still preserved in many Northumbrian and N.E. Scots dialects. M.E. au arose from various sources, indicated below ; and with it fell M.E. al followed by a consonant (§ 96). 172. (1) From O.E. (i^r, N.M.E. a^rA, aw^ : dro: (Rolle draw) to draw ; o:z (cf O.E. haga, hedge) hawthorn berries ; so: (O.E. sagu. Psalms sagh) a saying, ' saw ' ; no: (O.E. gnagan, Rolle Ps. gnaghe) to gnaw ; ...so: (O.E. sagu, Oath, saghe) a saw. 173. (2) From O.E. aw : klo: (O.E. clawu) claw 2; 9o: (O.E. thawian) to thaw; spro:l (O.E. spreawlian, Rolle sprawel) to sprawl. 1 M.E. au could not have passed through the stage ou, as Wyld suggests for Standard English {Short History of English, § 259), or it would have fallen together with M.E. cm, to ou. For M.E. ou remains unchanged in the dialect (§ 182). " The Pricke of Conscience has aw, the Psalter agh for this sound. " Brokesby (1691) indicates the pronunciation of this word as 'olea.' 'In the same country...
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