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English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day

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(_n{-o}na h{-o}ra_); _leyarn_, learn; _esn_, is not; _gurt_, great; _zote_, soft, silly; _casn't_, canst not; _laay_, lay, wager; _how't wool_, how it will; _that are_, that there; _lowz_ (lit.

allows), opines; _zunce_, since; _vust meyad_, first made; _keeas_, case; _lucky_, look ye! SOUTHERN (Group 7): EAST SUSSEX.
The following quotations are from the _Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect_, by the Rev.W.D.Parish, Vicar of Selmeston; E.D.S.

1875.
The Glossary refers rather to E.than to W.Sussex, Selmeston being between Lewes and Eastbourne.
_Call over_, to abuse.

"He come along here a-cadging, and fancy he just did call me over, because I told him as I hadn't got naun to give him." (_Naun_, nothing.) _Clocksmith_, a watchmaker.

"I be quite lost about time, I be; for I've been forced to send my watch to the clocksmith.


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