The literature of Lancashire is vast; it suffices to mention John Collier (otherwise Tim Bobbin), author of _Tummus and Meary_, Ben Brierley, John Byrom, J.P.Morris, author of _T' Lebby Beck Dobby_, and Edwin Waugh, prose author and poet.

_Giles's Trip to London_, and the other sketches by the same author, are highly characteristic of Norfolk.
Northamptonshire has its poet, John Clare; and Suffolk can boast of Robert Bloomfield.

According to her own statement, printed in the Preface (p.

viii) to the E.D.S._Bibliographical List_, George Eliot, when writing _Adam Bede_, had in mind "the talk of N.Staffordshire and the neighbouring part of Derbyshire"; whilst, in _Silas Marner_, "the district imagined is in N.Warwickshire." Southey wrote _T' Terrible Knitters e' Dent_ in the Westmoreland dialect.
Yorkshire, like Lancashire, has a large literature, to which the _E.D.D._ Booklist can alone do justice.
SCOTTISH (Group 3): ABERDEEN.
The following extract is from Chapter XVIII of _Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk_, by W.Alexander, LL.D., fifteenth edition, Edinburgh, 1908.

One special peculiarity of the dialect is the use of _f_ for _wh_, as in _fat_, what, _fan_, when.