Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent / Being Short Stories and Rhymes in the Dialects of the West Border Counties

by Alexander Craig Gibson

Song.

Blythe, S, cheerful, happy.

“A blythe heart mak’s a blooming look.”—Proverb.

Bood, S, behoved to.

“Weel leese me o’ you, Souter Jock,

For tricks ye bood be tryin’.”

Ferguson. The Election.

Boune, Old S, to journey or go.

“Win up! win up, now, Hynde Etin,

Win up, an’ boune wi’ me.”