T.

Take on, _to sorrow_.

Talents, _talons_.

Taters, _potatoes_.

Tell, _till_.

Tetch, _touch_.

Tetch tu, _to be able_;

used always after a negative in this sense.

Tollable, _tolerable_.

Toot, used derisively _for playing on any wind instrument_.

Thru, _through_.

Thundering, a euphemism common in New England, for the profane English

expression _devilish_. Perhaps derived from the belief,

common formerly, that thunder was caused by the Prince of

the Air, for some of whose accomplishments consult Cotton

Mather.

Tu, _to_, _too_;

commonly has this sound when used emphatically, or at the end of a

sentence. At other times it has the sound of _t_ in _tough_,

as _Ware ye goin' tu? Goin' ta Boston_.

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