A Glossary of North Country Words, in Use: With Their Etymology, and Affinity to Other Languages ; and Occasional Notices of Local Customs and Popular Superstitions--E. Charnley, 1829 - 343 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة vii
... pronounce to be vulgarisms what are in reality archaisms — the hard , but deep and manly , tones and sentiments of our ancestors . The book will prove how much is retained of the ancient Saxon speech- in its pure unadulterated state ...
... pronounce to be vulgarisms what are in reality archaisms — the hard , but deep and manly , tones and sentiments of our ancestors . The book will prove how much is retained of the ancient Saxon speech- in its pure unadulterated state ...
الصفحة 2
... pronounced yeck or yaik , just as earth is pronounced yerth ; whilst acorn is every where pronounced nearly as it is spelled . By having thus retained the orthography as well as the or- thoepy of aik , the people of the North have ...
... pronounced yeck or yaik , just as earth is pronounced yerth ; whilst acorn is every where pronounced nearly as it is spelled . By having thus retained the orthography as well as the or- thoepy of aik , the people of the North have ...
الصفحة 6
... pronounced , like John Kemble , aitches . Our auld trots , or old wives , have innu- merable prescriptions for the ague ; all of them , more or less , depending on something which is to operate as a charm . The opinion of the efficacy ...
... pronounced , like John Kemble , aitches . Our auld trots , or old wives , have innu- merable prescriptions for the ague ; all of them , more or less , depending on something which is to operate as a charm . The opinion of the efficacy ...
الصفحة 7
... pronounced Aw - LUNG ) entirely owing to . This term would almost seem to be a corrupt pronunciation of all owing . It is , however , of considerable antiquity in our language ; being used by Skelton , Ben Jonson , and others ; and may ...
... pronounced Aw - LUNG ) entirely owing to . This term would almost seem to be a corrupt pronunciation of all owing . It is , however , of considerable antiquity in our language ; being used by Skelton , Ben Jonson , and others ; and may ...
الصفحة 9
... pronouncing apron , in many of the northern counties . See NAPPERN . APPETIZE , v . to provoke an appetite for food . Juliana Barnes , who , Warton says , wrote about 1480 , uses appetydely , as an adverb , in the sense of with a good ...
... pronouncing apron , in many of the northern counties . See NAPPERN . APPETIZE , v . to provoke an appetite for food . Juliana Barnes , who , Warton says , wrote about 1480 , uses appetydely , as an adverb , in the sense of with a good ...
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Æsop allied ancient Antiq applied beat Berkeley bird BIZON Border Brand's Pop bread cake called Canny cattle Chaucer cognate common corn corruption Crav custom derived dialect Du Cange Durham especially etymology etymon expression female fire formerly Gael Germ Gloss Glossary Grose Hence hinny Hist horse Ital Jamieson keel keelmen King land language means milk Mo.-Got Nares Newc Newcastle noise North of England Northern word Northumberland Northumbrian obsolete occurs Old Eng old English old word origin peculiar Peirs Ploughman perhaps person probably pronunciation provincial Pure Saxon river Tyne rustic Sandgate says Scotch Scotland Scottish Scottish language seems sense Shak Shakspeare sheep Song sort Spenser stone Su.-Got Supp supposed Swed term Teut thing tion Todd Todd's John Todd's Johnson Tyne UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA verb villenage vulgar Welsh Wilbraham Willan Yorkshire young
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الصفحة 278 - Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls' pinions fail, As over Whitby's towers they sail, And, sinking down, with flutterings faint, They do their homage to the saint.
الصفحة 210 - And carols roared with blithesome din ; If unmelodious was the song, It was a hearty note and strong. Who lists may in their mumming see Traces of ancient mystery ; White shirts supplied the masquerade, And smutted cheeks the visors made ; But oh, what maskers richly dight Can boast of bosoms half so light?
الصفحة 224 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
الصفحة 108 - There, every herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with fate, their elf-shot arrows fly, When the sick ewe her summer food foregoes, Or, stretch'd on earth, the heart-smit heifers lie. Such airy beings awe th...
الصفحة 17 - BALL-MONEY. Money demanded of a marriage company, and given to prevent their being maltreated. In the North it is customary for a party to attend at the church gates, after a wedding, to enforce this claim. The gift has received this denomination, as being originally designed for the purchase of a foot-ball.
الصفحة 208 - The parties there brought up are known either by education or nature not to be of honest conversation.
الصفحة 112 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms...
الصفحة 174 - Come, come ; good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well us'd : exclaim no more against it.
الصفحة 35 - Sigh, no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny ; Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
الصفحة 71 - CLOUDESLY, —were three noted outlaws, whose skill in archery rendered them formerly as famous in the North of England, as Robin Hood and his fellows were in the midland counties. Their place of residence was in the forest of Englewood, not far from Carlisle...