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

Said to a top-heavy neighbour at Branthwaite.

Tryste, S, an appointed meeting, also to appoint a meeting.

“Crack tryste, crack credit.”—Proverb.

“I daurna tryste wi’ you, Willie, I daurna tryste ye here,

But I’ll meet wi’ you in heaven Willie, i’ the spring-time o’ the year.”

Aytoun. Annie’s Tryste.

Tyle, C, to distress, as with pain or fatigue.

“I’s tyled to deeth wid this kurn. I’ve been kurning iver sen mwornin’, an’ I seem as far off butter as iver.”

A farmer’s wife.

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