2 1
THar THare
2 1
whar hware
2 1
bar [bear] bare
2 4
war wer
37 1
mout mite [might]
1 1 4
gwine go'ing
4 4 4
shet or shut rid
1 5 1 1 4 4
tote or fotch kar're, fetsh, or bring
1 4
hop'd helpt
4 66 2 4 4
ca-hoot' part'nur-ship
3 66 5
mar'bl moov off
NOTE, _Clever_, _pretty_, _ugly_, _curious_, _expect_, _guess_, and
_reckon_, though correct English words, have, among the common
people of New England and New York, a provincial application and
meaning. With them, a _clever_ man, is one of a gentle and obliging
disposition; instead of, a man of distinguished talents and profound
acquirements. _Pretty_ and _ugly_, they apply to the _disposition_
of a person, instead of, to his _external appearance_. In these
states, one will often hear, "I _guess_ it rains," when the speaker
_knows_ this to be a fact, and, therefore, _guessing_ is uncalled
for. "I _expect_ I can go;" or, "I _reckon_ I can;" instead of, "I
_suppose_ or _presume_." In New England, a clergyman is often called
a _minister_, in New York, a _priest_, and south of N.Y. a _parson_.
The last is preferable.
NEW ENGLAND OR NEW YORK. CORRECTED.
I be goin. He lives to hum. I _am_ going. He lives _at_ home.
Hese ben to hum this two weeks. _He has been at home these_
2 weeks.
You haddent ought to do it. Yes You ought _not_ to do it.
had ought. _Certainly_ I ought.
Taint no better than hizzen. _'Tis_ no better than _his_.
Izzent that are line writ well? _Is not_ that line well _written_?
Tizzent no better than this ere. _It is_ no better, or it is
_not any_ better than his.
The keows be gone to hum, neow, The _cows are_ gone _home_, and
and I'mer goin arter um. _I am going after them_.
He'll be here, derights, and, bring He _will_ here, directly, and bring
yourn and thairn. yours and theirs.
He touched the stun which I shew He touched the _stone_ which I
him, an di guess it made him sithe, _showed_ him and it made him
for twas cissing hot. _sigh_, for _it was hissing_ hot.
Run, Thanel, and cut a staddle, for Go, Nathaniel, and cut a _sapling_,
to make a lever on. Ize jest agoneter to make a _lever of_. I _was about_
go, daddy. to go, or _intending_ to go
_immediately_, father.
Where shell I dump my cart, square? Where _shall_ I _unload_ my cart?
Dump it yender. Whats the heft of _Yonder_. _What is_ the _weight_
your load? of your load?
When ju git hum from Hafford? When _did you return from
A fortnit ago. You diddent, did ye? Hartford_? A _fortnight_ ago. _It
Ju see my Danel, whose sot up a is possible! Did_you see my _son
tarvern there? No. Hede gone afore Daniel, who has opened a public
I got there. O, the pesky criter! house_ there? No. _He had left
Hele soon be up a stump. before_ I _arrived_ there. O, the
_paltry fellow! He will_ soon _come
to naught._
My frinds supurb mansion is _My friend's_ superb mansion is
delightfully sitewated on a nate-eral delightfully _situated_ on a
mound of considerable hithe. It hez _natural_ mound of considerable
a long stoop in front; but it is furder _height_. It _has_ a long _porch_
from the city than I'de like my hum. in front; but it is _farther_ from
the city than _I would_ like to
_reside_.
I know'd the gal was drownded, and I _knew_ the _girl had been
I tell'd the inquisitdoners, that ize drowned_, and I _told_ the _jury
nither geestin nor jokin about it; but of inquest_, that _I was_
if they'd permit me to give em my _not jesting_ about it; but, _by
ideze, they'd obleege me. So I permitting_ me to _give them_ my
parsevered, and carried my pinte. You _view of the subject_, they _would
don't say so. Be you from Barkshire? oblige_ me. So, I _persevered_,
I be. Neow I swan! if I aint clean and _gained_ my _point. Indeed!
beat. Are_ you from _Berkshire_? I _am.
Really_!I _am surprised_.
You baint from the Jarseys, be ye? _Are_ you from _New Jersey_? Yes,
Yes. Gosh! then I guess you kneow Then I _presume_ you _know how_
heow to tend tarvern. to tend _a tavern_.