Lakeland Words / A Collection of Dialect Words and Phrases as Used in Cumberland and Westmorland, with Illustrative Sentences in the North Westmorland Dialect

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PREFACE.

EXPLANATORY.

LAKELAND WORDS AND SAYINGS.

SUPPLEMENTARY LIST.

APPENDIX OF CONTRIBUTED WORDS.

SCORING NUMERALS.

NOTES.

Obvious typographical errors in the plain English of this text have been silently corrected. In the main the dialect sections they remain as printed including the variation in the use of apostrophe and hyphen. In particular no attempt has been made to resolve how many of the many yan and yah are typos for each other.

The words are only in approximate alphabetical order, this has not been changed.

The table of contents has been added by the transcriber.

The following changes have been made.

AH-WOOA-GE-HEDDER-COME-UP—A nag ’at doesn’t understand its orders is apt ta git t’ whup. We yance watched a chap plewin, an’ he said, “Ah-wooa-ge-hedder-come-up” [was An] till he was stalled, then he let flee wi a clot, coad t’ nag a fiual, an’ telt it ta liuk an see what seck wark it was makkin.

BLODDER—To cry in an effusive way—blodder [was bodder] an’ rooar. What’s ta blodderin aboot?

BRAUN—A wild boar.

“A braun [was braan] ’at hed boddert ’em neet an’ day,
At last, by a butcher, was boldly shot.”—Bowness.

BREAS—Beck edge. Where t’ fish dark anunder. Whitehead says:

Howks grubs an’ worms fra under t’ breas,
To feed t’ lal [was la] hungry troot.

WIASTRY—Waistfulness. Seck wiastry [was waistry] as yan niver dud see barn; it’s fair shocken.

The following have not been corrected due to ambiguity.

BOTTOM—To get to the origin or foundation. Ah’ll boddum that drain oot first. Boddum that teeal. [Not clear if all bottom or all boddum.]

KIRMAS-GIFT—Summat fer t’ barns. Varra oft a paper o’ pins ta laik wi’.

KIRSMAS-GLASS—This is fer up-grown ’uns they tak’t warm, wi’ a bit o’ sugar tull ’t.

[Probably identical, but which is correct?]

LAKELAND WORDS.

“The native phrase fresh gathered from the fells.”

B. KIRKBY

Title Page

LAKELAND WORDS.

A COLLECTION OF
Dialect Words and Phrases,

AS USED IN
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND,
WITH
ILLUSTRATIVE SENTENCES IN THE NORTH
WESTMORLAND DIALECT.

BY B. KIRKBY.

WITH PREFACE
BY
PROFESSOR JOSEPH WRIGHT, M.A., Ph.D.
OXFORD.

KENDAL:

Printed by T. Wilson, Highgate.

1898.

PRICE 2/6.


TO THE WANDERING SONS AND DAUGHTERS
OF THE LAKE COUNTRY,
AND WHO, WHEREVER THEY ARE,
STILL HARBOUR A LOVE FOR THE SOUND OF
“T’ AULD TWANG,”
THIS COLLECTION IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.


“Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,
We love the play-place of our early days;
The scene is touching, and the heart is stone
That feels not at that sight, and feels at none;

This fond attachment to the well known place,
Whence first we started into life’s long race,
Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway,
We feel it even in age, and at our latest day.”
Cowper.

“In the power of saying rude truths, sometimes in the lion’s mouth, no men surpass them.”


“The more hearty and sturdy expression may indicate that the savageness of the Norsemen was not all gone.”

Emerson: National Traits.


“That man speaks
Is nature’s prompting, whether thus or thus
She leaves to you, as ye do most affect it.”—Dante.
(Quoted from Farrar’s Chapters on Language.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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