[44] A New English Grammar, pt. i, p. 380.
[45] History of the English Language, p. 398.
[46] And still more often as an adjective, as in "it was a boughten dress."
[47] You Know Me Al, p. 180; see also p. 122.
[48] Cf. Lounsbury: History of the English Language, pp. 393 et seq.
[49] Remark of a policeman talking to another. What he actually said was "before the Elks was c'm 'ere." Come and here were one word, approximately cmear. The context showed that he meant to use the past perfect tense.
[50] These examples are from Lardner's story, A New Busher Breaks In, in You Know Me Al, pp. 122 et seq.
[51] You Know Me Al, op. cit., p. 124.
[52] The Making of English, p. 53.
[53] Cf. Dialect Notes, vol. iii, pt. i, p. 59; ibid., vol. III, pt. iv, p. 283.