stool; _Thee think_, do thou think; _deeod_, dead;
_o'_, all; _get forrud_, get on, go on.

MIDLAND (Group 5): SHEFFIELD.

The following extract is from A. Bywater's _Sheffield Dialect_,
3rd ed, 1877; as quoted in S.O. Addy's _Sheffield Glossary_,
E.D.S., 1888, p. xv.

_Jerra Flatback._ Hah, they'n better toimes on't nah, booath e
heitin and clooas; we'n had menni a mess a nettle porridge an brawls
on a Sunda mo'nin, for us brekfast... Samma, dusta remember hah
menni names we had for sahwer wotcake?

_Oud Samma Squarejoint._ O kno'n't, lad; bur o think we'd foive or
six. Let's see: Slammak wer won, an' Flat-dick wer anuther; an't
tuther wor--a dear, mo memra fails ma--Flannel an' Jonta;
an-an-an-an--bless me, wot a thing it is tubbe oud, mo memra gers
war for ware, bur o kno heah's anuther; o'st think on enah.--
A, Jerra, heah's menni a thahsand dogs nah days, at's better dun
too nor we wor then; an them were t'golden days a Hallamshoir, they
sen. An they happen wor, for't mesters. Hofe at prentis lads e them
days wor lether'd whoile ther skin wor skoi-blue, and clam'd whoile
ther booans wer bare, an work'd whoile they wor as knock-kneed as
oud Nobbletistocks. Thah nivver sees nooa knock-kneed cutlers nah:
nou, not sooa; they'n better mesters nah, an they'n better sooat a
wark anole. They dooant mezher em we a stick, as oud Natta Hall did.
But for all that, we'd none a yer wirligig polishin; nor Tom Dockin
scales, wit bousters comin off; nor yer sham stag, nor sham revvits,
an sich loik. T' noives wor better made then, Jerra.

_Jerra_: Hah, they wor better made; they made t' noives for yuse
then, but they mayn em to sell nah.

Notes.--Observe _'n_ for _han_ (plural), have; _on't nah_,
of it now; _e heitin_, in eating; _mess a_, dish of, meal of;
_brawis_, brose, porridge; _hah_, how; _sahwer wotcake_,
leavened oatcake; _bur o_, but I; _mo_, my; _ma_, me;
_tubbe oud_, to be old; _gers_, gets; _war for ware_,
worse for wear; _o'st_, I shall; _think on_, remember;
_enah_, presently; _nah days_, nowadays; _at's_, that are;
_dun too_, treated; _nor we_, than we; _Hallamshoir_,
Hallamshire, the district including Sheffield and the
neighbourhood; _sen_, say; _happen_, perhaps; _for't_,
for the; _hofe at_, half of the; _e them_, in those;
_lether'd_, beaten; _whoile_, till; _clam'd_ (for _clamm'd_),
starved; _sooat a_,