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English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day

CHAPTER XII
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_snaisty_, cross.

_Fate, fait_ (cf.

E._feat_), suitable, clever.
_Mawther_, a young girl; Norw._moder_.

_Dibles_: the _i_ is long.

_Sa_, says; _ha_, _have_, has; note the absence of final _s_ in the third person singular.


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