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Yorkshire folk talk and East Riding Dialect

by

Rev. M Morris, T. Holderness

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Numbers in brackets give the number of pages referenced when greater than one.

A, the pronunciation of the Yorkshire, (3)
- the middle,
Abbreviations of words, (2)
Against,
A-gait,
Agricultural terms, (2)
Ah for I, (2)
Aiger,
Almanacks, faith in,
American Revision of the Bible, and Dialect,
An' all,
Anglian and Norse settlements,
Article, the definite,
As for rather,
At for that,
- signifying point of time,
Atterill, all iv a,
Authorised Version, language of the,
Avvyl ings,
B.
Back door ways, no,
Bad ti band,
Bands and Band,
Bargain, the Yorkshireman and a, (2)
Be, to,
Beck,
Bee customs,
Beeld and Building,
Begone, sadly,
Better for more,
Betty and the Sermon,
Bible, obsolete words, in,
- words of Latin origin in,
- and Key,
Bill and I, ' (2)
Bindtther or Scoorer,
Boddoms,
Bow,
Branfits,
Braykus and Breekus,
By and Thorpe,
By names, (2)
C.
Calf and Cough,
Call, to,
Calls and Coals, (2)
Cann'ls, fast for,
Carling Sunday,
Carrs,
Cat and mouse story,
Cautious reply, a,
Characteristics of the Dialect, three leading,
Christmastide customs, (2)
Churchwarden's repartee, the,
Claws and Clothes,
Click'd up t'pooaker,
Clout, tak ho'd o' t',
Club Feasts,
Coffee Jack, ' (2)
Comet, Betty and the, (2)
Compline bell,
Confirmation, a candidate for,
Coo tah nobs,
Crack of, to,
Cracks wi, just to fill up t',
Creuse on 'em,
Crowing of cocks and hens,
Cures, faith in supposed,
D.
D, pronunciation of in Danish,
Daft, &c.,
Danish compared with Yorkshire Dialect, (6)
- in agricultural terms,
- pronunciation of,
Death, superstitions connected with,
Dialect :
- compared with the Queen's English,
- Danish, specimens of, (2)
- decay of,
- differences between Northern and Southern,
- difficulty of acquiring knowledge of, (2)
- early examples of the, (2)
- force of Yorkshire,
- history of Yorkshire, (2)
- in preaching,
- Jutlandic peculiarities, (2)
- meaning of,
- mistakes by strangers, due to,
- Northern, Midland, and South ern,
- of fifty years ago,
- pronunciation of,
- raciness of,
- specimens of, (2)
- spelling of,
- study of Yorkshire, (2)
- utterance of the,
Dick' the miser, (2)
Dizzily gorlous,
Doven, to,
Dowly,
Dream holes,
Du maa ei komme endnu, '
Dumb cake, '
Duncan's Glossary, (2)
Dyke,
E
E sound, pronunciation of,
Earle, Professor, on Dialect, (2)
Easter customs,
Ecclesiastical terms,
year, days of the,
Eea sound, tendency of vowels to, (2)
Eeatin mah gess,
Eight and weight, pronunciation of,
English Dialect Society,
Evasive answer, specimen of,
Expect, to,
F.
Fairies, belief in,
scenting the,
FanO, visit to, (2)
Farm servants, (3)
Fast,
Feilberg's Jutlandic Dictionary.
Fen, meaning of the word,
Fend,
Fest,
Field names, (2)
First end and Fore end,
Folk lore and superstitions,
Forcefulness of the Dialect,
For to, (2)
Fox heeads,
Frame, framation,
Friday, an unlucky day,
Frumety, the making of,
G.
Gait,
Galls,
Geck and Gicken,
Geir, derivation of,
Geography, knowledge of local,
Gesling and Gosling,
Glossary, (2)
Gorr,
Gowly field,
Graithing,
Grammar:
- adjective, the.(2)
- adverb, the, (2)
- article, the,
- case, possessive,
- conditional mood,
- conjunction, the,
- future tense for present,
  - old form of,
- gender,
- interjection, the,
- irregular verbs, (2)
- number,
- of the schools,
- participle in en, (2)
- preposition, the, (2)
- pronoun, the, (2)
- subject of,
- verb, the, (2)
  - reiteration of the,
H.
Hackle, ower good a,
Hag,
Harvest festivities,
Have,
He and she, peculiar use of,
Heeaf,
Hefted,
Helmsley district,
Ho'dden,
Holderness vernacular,
Holy Week, days of,
Home and again, pronunciation of,
Hoos and House, (2)
Horses, agricultural,
Hurne,
I.
Independence of Yorkshire folk,
Indirect statement,
Ings and Carrs, (2)
Insense, to,
Into, equivalents for,
Idioms
- be, to,
- better,
- call, to,
- going in,
- good and bad,
- illify,
- many, a,
- miscellaneous examples of, (2)
- negative, double, (2)
- nowt aboot that,
- reet, to,
- think on, think to, (2)
- verbalising of words, (2)
- wait of,
Is for are,
Izak, au'd, '
J.
Jack' and the influenza, (2)
Jack' the sportsman,
Jamie Broon ' and the Church boords,
John' asleep,
Jump with, to,
Jutlandic Dialect,
K.
Keld,
Kex,
Kilburn Feast, custom at,
- mell sheaf at,
Kit, au'd, '
Knocking, (2)
Kom and Come,
Kviædelæs,
L.
Lang Frida,
Laud o' manner,
Leader of calls, the, '
Learn, to,
Lech and Leak,
Leeps,
Letter sounds, pronunciation of, (2)
Linton on Ouse, field names at, (2)
Lowzin tahm,
Lucky bird, the, '
Ly and lins, the terminations, (2)
M.
Mappa mundi,
Marshall's Rural Economy of Yorkshire, words in, (2)
Martinmas Hirings,
Mashalshon, mak nowt bud,
Matter, to,
Max Miller, Professor, on Bible words,
May,
Meat, (2)
Measles, strange cure for,
Medical terms, (2)
Me, pronunciation of,
Me for I,
Mell doll,
Mell sheaf,
Mell supper, (2)
Modulations of the voice in pro nouncing the Dialect, (2)
Mud (might) and mud (filth),
Must,
N.
Nannie Nicholson Taatie Pie,
Near hand for near,
Ned Paak, '
Negation, adverb of,
Newton on Ouse, old words in use at,
- Danish words at,
New Year's Day customs,
Night and day, divisions of,
No, equivalents for,
Noo and Now,
Norse words in Yorkshire, (2)
Nowterer,
O.
O in lost, &c., pronunciation of, (2)
Off;
Oor, peculiar use of,
Opera, Yorkshireman at the,
On sound of standard English,
Overed, to be,
Owe for own,
Owered, it 's,
Own and yewn,
Owt, pronunciation of,
P.
Paaskeleg,
Park,
Parlous,
Paste egg Day, '
Penny nap, '
Pepper cake,
Piano, the Yorkshireman and the,
Pickering Moors, specimen of Dialect from,
Pigs and childer,
Playing a fly
Pocklington, Martinmas Day at, (2)
Possessive case, (2)
Pronunciation of letter sounds, (2)
- of dialect at present day,
Put about,
Q
Quick,
R.
R, the nasal, in Jutland,
Rakes,
Reeking and Degging, '
Reet, to,
Reins and Geirs,
Revised Version of the Bible,
Riding and Rudding,
Rivers, terms connected with,
Roopy,
Rush,
Ruskin, Mr., and his Bible,
S.
S' for shall,
Sad,
Sag,
Saim and Same, '
St.Agnes' Eve customs,
St.Mark's Eve,
St.Stephen's Eve,
Sayings, quaint,
Scott, Sir Walter, and Folk talk,
Scraffled i mi ee,
Screen, remove the, '
Seck and Sack,
Seedtime customs,
Seeavy flats,
Set, we ev her,
Shakespeare, Yorkshire words in, (2)
Sheep rakes,
Shout and Shoot,
Sike, Sick and Sikan,
Similes, (2)
Smith o' Marishes, (2)
Snahry clooas,
Sowle, to,
Sowlin a son, '
Specimens of the Dialect, (2)
Specimens of Early English, Dr. Morris's,
Spelling of the Dialect, (2)
Sporting terms,
Starved,
Statties,
Stevn, (2)
Stie,
Storm, Yorkshire description of a,
Strange, Sairly, and Despert,
Sumlers,
T.
T' for the,
T for it,
Ta and Thoo, use of, (2)
Tea, importance of,
Teeas and Tears,
Tew,
Th, pronunciation of,
That - whahl,
Throng,
Tid, mid, and miseray, '
Tied,
Timmy James's cute lad, '
Tommy' and the country talk,
Thruf oppen deears,
Tunder and Tinder,
U.
pronunciation of the letter,
Ulvborg, specimen of the Danish Dialect from,
Up ti yaps knees i cau'd watther,
V.
pronunciation of in Jutland,
'Vardy dinner' at Helmsley,
Varry and Vast,
Verb, position of in the Dialect,
Very well,
Vikings, the,
W.
Want, peculiar use of,
Wards, to- and from,
Warming,
Warts, cures for,
Wasp and the churning of butter, the,
Wedding customs,
Weeks and Viking,
Welsh ll,
Wheeas owes it ?
While,
Who and How,
Whooping cough cures,
Wi and wiv,
Wick and wick,
Wicken wood,
Wind, pronunciation of,
Witches and wise men, stories of, (2)
Words of Anglian and Norse ex traction,
- choice of, in preaching, (3)
- contained in Marshall's Rural Economy, (2)
- introduced after the Norman Conquest,
- Latin,
- misunderstood,
- peculiar uses of,
Wycliffe's New Testament, Yorkshire words in,
Wyke and Wig, (2)
Y.
Yah and Yan,
Yance ower,
Yes, equivalents for,
Yet,
York Minster Screen, (2)
Yorkshire Burns, need for a,
- bargain,
- caution, (3)
- character, (2)
- farm lads, (2)
- grammar,
Yorkshire hospitality,
- independence, (2)
- manners in, (2)
- music in, (2)
Yorkshireman, bilingual,
- contrasted with the Irishman,
- contrasted with Lancashire folk,
- hard to get at,
- in London, (4)
- a money lover,

Yule candle, the,