Lakeland Words / A Collection of Dialect Words and Phrases as Used in Cumberland and Westmorland, with Illustrative Sentences in the North Westmorland Dialect

Obvious typographical errors in the plain English of this text have been silently corrected. In the main the dialect sections they remain as printed including the variation in the use of apostrophe and hyphen. In particular no attempt has been made to resolve how many of the many yan and yah are typos for each other.
The words are only in approximate alphabetical order, this has not been changed.
The table of contents has been added by the transcriber.
The following changes have been made.
BRAUN—A wild boar.
At last, by a butcher, was boldly shot.”— Bowness.
BREAS—Beck edge. Where t’ fish dark anunder. Whitehead says:
Howks grubs an’ worms fra under t’ breas,
The following have not been corrected due to ambiguity.
KIRMAS-GIFT—Summat fer t’ barns. Varra oft a paper o’ pins ta laik wi’.
KIRSMAS-GLASS—This is fer up-grown ’uns they tak’t warm, wi’ a bit o’ sugar tull ’t.
LAKELAND WORDS.