_em_, him; _floy_, fly; _Runjer_, Ringway; _game_ (also _gam_),
full of pluck; _hoo_, she; _rooad_, road, way; _gurned_,
grinned; _soo_, sow (term of abuse); _hwom_, home; _thisen_,
thyself.

EASTERN (Group 2): N. ESSEX.

The following extract is from _John Noakes and Mary Styles_, by
Charles Clark, of Great Totham; London, 1839. Reprinted for the
E.D.S., 1895. As Great Totham is to the North of Maldon, I take this
specimen to belong to Prof. Wright's "Division 2" rather than to the
S.W. Essex of "Division 5." The use of _w_ for initial _v_ occurs
frequently, as in _werry_, very, etc.

At Tottum's Cock-a-Bevis Hill,
A sput surpass'd by few,
Where toddlers ollis haut to eye
The proper pritty wiew,

Where people crake so ov the place,
Leas-ways, so I've hard say;
An' frum its top yow, sarteny,
Can see a monsus way.

But no sense ov a place, some think,
Is this here hill so high,--
'Cos there, full oft, 'tis nation coad,
But that don't argufy.

As sum'dy, 'haps, when nigh the sput,
May ha' a wish to see 't,--
From Mauldon toun to Keldon 'tis,
An' 'gin a four-releet.

At Cock-a Bevis Hill, too, the
Wiseacres show a tree
Which if you clamber up, besure,
A precious way yow see.

I dorn't think I cud clime it now,
Aldoe I uster cud;
I shudn't warsley loike to troy,
For gulch cum down I shud.

My head 'ood swim,--I 'oodn't do't
Nut even fur a guinea;
A naarbour ax'd me, t'other day;
"Naa, naa," says I, "nut quinny."

Notes.--_Sput_, spot; _toddlers_, walkers; _ollis_, always;
_haut_, halt; _wiew_, view. _Crake_, boast; _leas(t)ways_, at
least; _sarteny_, certainly; _monsus_, monstrous, very long.

_No sense ov a_, poor, bad; _coad_, cold; _argufy_, prove
(anything).

_Sum'dy_, somebody; _from M._, between Maldon and Kelvedon;
_'gin_, against, near; _four-releet_ (originally _four-e leet_,
lit. "ways of four," _four-e_ being the genitive plural, hence)
meeting of four roads.

_Dorn't_, don't; _aldoe_, although; _uster cud_ (for _us'd to
could_), used to be able; _warsley_, vastly, much; _loike_,
like; _gulch_, heavily, with a bang.

_'Ood_, would; _nut_, not; _ax'd_, asked; _naa_, no; _nut
quinny_, not quite, not at all.

EASTERN (Group 3): NORFOLK.

The following extract from "A Norfolk Dialogue" is from a work
entitled _Erratics by a Sa