SOME DORSET WORDS

WITH A FEW HINTS ON DORSET WORD-SHAPES.

THE MAIN SOUNDS.

1. ee in beet.

2. e in Dorset (a sound between 1 and 3.)

3. a in mate.

4. i in birth.

5. a in father.

6. aw in awe.

7. o in dote.

8. oo in rood.

In Dorset words which are forms of book-English ones, the Dorset words differ from the others mainly by Grimm's law, that "likes shift into likes," and I have given a few hints by which the putting of an English heading for the Dorset one will give the English word. If the reader is posed by dreaten, he may try for dr, thr, which will bring out threaten. See Dr under D.

[A] | [B] | [C] | [D] | [E] | [F] | [G] | [H] | [J] | [K] | [L] | [M] | [N] |[O] | [P] | [Q] | [R] | [S] | [T] | [U] | [V] | [W] | [Y] |[Z]


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Transcriber's Note:
TOC: 423 corrected to 243
Page 137: Replaced missing end-quote.
Page 194: Replaced missing end-quote.
Page 197: Changed jäy to jaÿ.
Page 235: replaced two periods with commas.
Page 243: restored title: BLEÄKE'S HOUSE IN BLACKMWORE.
Page 297: Replaced missing end-quote.
Page 350: Changed jäy to jaÿ.
Page 368: "J. L., *T. D., at Meldonley." has no following footnote.
Page 432: changed däy to daÿ.
Page 444: Replaced missing end-quote.
Index: Added missing stops to E, F, G, H.
Realigned 'Scote' alphabetically.

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