The Folk-Speech of Cumberland And Some Districts Adjacent: Being Short ...
The Folk-Speech of Cumberland And Some Districts Adjacent: Being Short ...
Alexander Craig Gibson
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I give a few of these, written down as they rise in recollection, and arranged Lindley Murray's fashion. Present. Past. Past Participle. Break Brack Brocken Bring Brong and Brang Browte Brust (burst) Brast Brossen Cleed (clothe) CleM Cled Clim' Clam Clim't and Clum cam (come) Com Cum't Cut Cot and Cuttit Cutten Drink Drunk Drucken and Drocken Drive Drdiv Druvven Fling Flang Flung Git (get) Gat Gitten Gi'e (give) Gev Gi'en Ga and Gang (go) Went Gdm Greet (weep) Grat Grutten Hit Hat and Hot Hitte...n Ho'd (hold) Hodit Hodden Let Let Letten Digitized by Google i6i Present Past Past Participle, Kest (cast) Kest Kessen Knead Knod Knodden May May*d or Med Mun (must) Mud Put Pot Putten Rive Reiv Ruvven Run Ron Run Rise Reiiz Ruzzen Stick Stack Stuck and Stucken Set Set Setten Tak Tok and Teiik Tocken Thrust Thrustit Throssen Minced or modified oaths are remarkably numerous in Cumberland, and in very common use. Most of them have descended from the old Roman Catholic times when, as Dr. Newman in speaking of Roman Catholic populations of the present day, avers, habitual swearing indicated piety and reverence for things sacred, and not profaneness.
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