A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms (Classic Reprint): In Use in the County of Kent - Couverture souple

Parish, W. D.

 
9781332291861: A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms (Classic Reprint): In Use in the County of Kent

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The final letters are transposed in wasp, hasp, and many words of similar termination. Hence these become [wops, haps.

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The Kentish Dialect finds its expression in peculiarities of phrase and pronunciation rather than in any great number of distinctly dialectical words. In many respects it closely resembles the dialect of Sussex, though it retains a distinctive character, and includes a considerable number of words which are unknown in the neighbouring County.

The Kentish pronunciation is so much more coarse and broad than that of Sussex, that many words which are common to both dialects can scarcely be recognised a few miles away from the border; and many words of ordinary use become strangely altered. As an instance, the word elbow may be taken, which first has the termination altered by the substitution of ber [ber] for bow [boa], and becomes elber [el ber].

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