Sk for sh—busk for bush,—Halifax.
Ejection of Letters.
K before s, the preceding vowel being lengthened by way of compensation—neist for next, seist for sixth,—Halifax.
D and v after a consonant—gol for gold, siller for silver,—Suffolk. The ejection of f is rarer; mysel for myself, however, occurs in most dialects.
L final, after a short vowel,—in which case the vowel is lengthened—poo for pull,—Cheshire, Scotland.
Al changed to a open—hawf for half, saumon for salmon,—Cumberland, Scotland.
Transposition.
Transpositions of the liquid r are common in all our provincial dialects; as gars, brid, perty, for grass, bird, pretty. Here the provincial forms are the oldest, gærs, brid, &c., being the Anglo-Saxon forms. Again; acsian, Anglo-Saxon=ask, English.
[§ 687]. Ancient forms of speech.—In the way of grammar—
1. The ge- (see [§ 409]), prefixed to the past participle (ge-boren=borne) is, in certain localities,[[73]] omitted.